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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

We are pleased to announce that telemetry is now available in Azure Monitor activity log to identify the causes of auto-resuming serverless workloads in Azure SQL Database.  Prior to exposing this te...

Organizations moving to the cloud often face a critical challenge: maintaining seamless authentication for legacy applications without compromising security or user experience. Today, we’re excited t...

Over the past several months, we’ve heard from countless customers who are eager for more robust options to protect, compress, and safeguard their SQL Server data. Since introducing these features in...

Scenario: Many organizations need to route audit logs from Azure SQL Database to more than one Log Analytics workspace. For example, your security team may use Microsoft Sentinel in one workspace, w...