Recent Blogs
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Database DevOps tooling for Microsoft SQL brings the benefits of database-as-code to your development workflow. At its core are SQL database projects, which enable you to source control your database...
Mar 19, 2026
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We are excited to announce the public preview of 160 and 192vCore compute sizes for Premium-series hardware configuration in Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. Since the introduction of Pre...
Mar 18, 2026
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With this release, you no longer need to reference a specific key version stored in Azure Key Vault or Managed HSM when configuring Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with customer‑managed keys. Inste...
Mar 18, 2026
Executive summary
Automatic index compaction is a new built-in feature in the MSSQL database engine that compacts indexes in background and with minimal overhead.
Now you can:
Stop using sche...
Mar 18, 2026
Today we’re announcing a public preview that lets Azure SQL Database Import & Export services authenticate with user-assigned managed identity. Now Azure SQL Databases can perform import and export o...
Mar 03, 2026
We’re happy to announce that the update policy SQL Server 2025 for Azure SQL Managed Instance is now generally available (GA). SQL Server 2025 update policy contains all the latest SQL engine innovat...
Mar 02, 2026
Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) is one of those SQL features (available in SQL Server, Azure SQL DB, Azure SQL MI, SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric) that both developers and DBAs can rally behind. Why? Be...
Mar 02, 2026
Failover groups for Azure SQL Database is a business continuity solution that lets you manage the replication and failover of databases to another Azure SQL logical server. With failover groups, you...
Jan 30, 2026
Data integrity isn’t just a buzzword, it’s the backbone of trust in any database system. With the ledger functionality in Azure SQL and SQL Server, organizations have a powerful way to ensure their d...
Jan 13, 2026
What a year 2025 has been for SQL! ICYMI and are looking for some hype, might I recommend you start with this blog from Priya Sathy, the product leader for all of SQL at Microsoft: One consistent SQL...
Dec 18, 2025