Azure SQL Database is a fully managed, always‑up‑to‑date relational database service built for mission‑critical apps. It delivers built‑in high availability, automated backups, and elastic scale, wit...

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...

We’re excited to announce the public preview of Auditing for Fabric SQL Database—a powerful feature designed to help organizations strengthen security, ensure compliance, and gain deep operational in...

Overview Next-gen General Purpose is the evolution of General Purpose service tier that brings significantly improved performance and scalability to power up your existing Azure SQL Managed Instanc...

If near-real time integration is something you are looking to implement and you were looking for a simpler way to get the data out of SQL, keep reading. SQL is making it easier to integrate and Chang...

We’re excited to announce the General Availability (GA) of native Regex support in SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL — a long-awaited capability that brings powerful pattern matching directly into T-SQL....

The Secure Future Initiative is Microsoft’s strategic framework for embedding security into every layer of the data platform—from infrastructure to identity. As part of this initiative, Microsoft Ent...

Active geo-replication for Azure SQL is a business continuity solution that lets you perform quick disaster recovery of individual databases if there is a regional disaster or a large-scale outage.  ...