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What’s new in SQL Server and Azure SQL: 2023 Year in Review

Anna Hoffman on Nov 15 2023 09:00 AM
Read the 2023 recap of all the Azure SQL and SQL Server news or catch the live episode! If you missed the episode, you c...
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Ledger in Azure SQL Managed Instance now generally available

PieterVanhove on Nov 15 2023 08:09 AM
Just announced, Ledger in Azure SQL Managed Instance now generally available. Learn more!
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Always Encrypted with secure enclaves – DC-series with up to 40 vCores now generally available

PieterVanhove on Nov 15 2023 08:08 AM
Just announced, Always Encrypted with secure enclaves – DC-series databases with up to 40 vCores generally available. Le...
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VBS enclaves for Always Encrypted in Azure SQL Database now generally available

PieterVanhove on Nov 15 2023 08:07 AM
Just announced, VBS enclaves in Azure SQL Database now generally available. Learn more!
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Vector Search with Azure SQL Database and Azure AI Search

muazma on Nov 15 2023 08:00 AM
Vector Search with Azure SQL Database and Azure AI Search new capabailities
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Announcing Public Preview of premium-series hardware for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale elastic pools

Arvind Shyamsundar on Nov 15 2023 08:00 AM
Improve the performance and scalability of Azure SQL Database Hyperscale elastic pools with the new premium-series, and ...
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A summary of Azure SQL Managed Instance product updates in 2023

Borko_Novakovic on Nov 15 2023 07:50 AM
Learn about Azure SQL Managed Instance innovations coming to Microsoft Ignite and PASS Data Community Summit, which are ...
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GA of DTC for Azure SQL Managed Instance

sasapopo on Nov 15 2023 07:40 AM
 DTC for SQL MI is GA! You can run distributed transactions between multiple SQL MIs and multiple SQL Servers and other ...
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Online disaster recovery between SQL Server 2022 and SQL Managed Instance - Preview

DjordjeJeremic on Nov 15 2023 07:40 AM
We’re excited to announce a major new capability of the Managed Instance link feature that now supports two-way failover...
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Announcing the General Availability of November 2022 Feature Wave for Azure SQL Managed Instance

Vladimir Ivanovic on Nov 15 2023 07:40 AM
New capabilities coming to Azure SQL Managed Instance November 2022 feature wave make SQL Managed Instance even more per...
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GA of database copy and move for Azure SQL Managed Instance

sasapopo on Nov 15 2023 07:36 AM
GA of SQL MI database copy and move online and cross-instance operations.
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Premium-series Reserved Capacity for Azure SQL DB Hyperscale and Azure SQL Managed Instance

maridjo on Nov 15 2023 07:31 AM
Premium-series Reserved Instances are now available for SQL DB Hyperscale and SQL Managed Instance! Learn how to drastic...
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Improved price/performance & flexibility in the Business Critical service tier on Azure SQL MI

NikoNeugebauer on Nov 15 2023 07:31 AM
SQL MI Business Critical service tier was already the most performant PaaS service to way to run SQL Server in the cloud...
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Announcing General Availability of Zone Redundancy for Azure SQL Managed Instance Business Critical

Vladimir Ivanovic on Nov 15 2023 07:30 AM
Improve the resiliency of your business critical SQL Managed Instance with zone redundant deployments
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Announcing General Availability of Stop-Start capability for Azure SQL Managed Instance

UrosMilanovic on Nov 15 2023 07:20 AM
After a year being in public preview, we are pleased to announce that start-stop capability for Azure SQL Managed Instan...
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Microsoft SQL at PASS Data Community Summit

Anna Hoffman on Nov 14 2023 12:00 AM
PASS Summit week is here!!! Find out when and where your favorite Microsoft speakers are speaking.
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Improving Extended Events in Azure SQL

Dimitri_Furman on Nov 13 2023 03:24 PM
In recent months, we have made several improvements to Extended Events in Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Insta...
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Azure SQL Database Elastic Jobs preview refresh

SriniAcharya on Nov 08 2023 09:00 AM
We are very excited to announce a significant “refresh” to the current Azure SQL Database Elastic Jobs preview! This ref...
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Importing .NET FX and 3rd party DLLs into Azure SQL MI

MihailoJoksimovic on Oct 27 2023 06:43 AM
In this article we are going to talk about importing 3rd party and .NET FX assemblies into your Azure SQL Managed Instan...
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SQL Auditing support for OBO access request from middle tier applications in Microsoft Entra

Sravani Saluru on Oct 16 2023 10:42 PM
SQL Auditing support for OBO (On-Behalf-Of logging) access request from middle tier applications in Microsoft Entra (aka...
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License-free DR on Azure SQL Managed Instance for SQL Server

Danimir Ljepava on Oct 10 2023 07:33 AM
Hybrid failover rights is a new benefit for SQL Server customers using Software Assurance (SA) or Pay-as-you-go billing ...
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Minimize the downtime when migrating SQL workloads to Azure SQL Managed Instance

ZoranRilak on Oct 03 2023 08:14 AM
Use your DNS server to repoint all your applications to Azure SQL Managed Instance in one fell swoop.
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TDE with database-level CMK now generally available for Azure SQL Database

Mirek Sztajno on Oct 02 2023 01:10 PM
TDE with database-level CMK now generally available for Azure SQL Database.
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Ledger database vs ledger tables

PieterVanhove on Sep 19 2023 04:45 AM
What is the difference between a ledger database and a ledger table? Learn more!
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Announcing General Availability of SQL Database Hyperscale long-term backup retention

jes_schultz on Sep 18 2023 10:36 AM
Many applications have regulatory, compliance, or other business requirements that require the database backups to be st...
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Announcing General Availability of SQL Database Hyperscale short-term backup retention up to 35 days

jes_schultz on Sep 18 2023 10:20 AM
We are excited to announce the general availability of short-term backup retention up to 35 days in the Hyperscale tier ...
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Non-scenarios with private endpoints to Azure SQL Managed Instance

ZoranRilak on Sep 07 2023 11:46 AM
What can't you do with private endpoints to an Azure SQL Managed Instance? Find out in part three of this mini-series.

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in How-to restore across different SQL Managed instances when using TDE with Customer Managed Keys on May 08 2024 06:37 AM
Storage Account authentication with (System/User) Managed Identities:How to take secure, on-demand backups on SQL Managed Instance
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Josh_Ash
in Introducing Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-gen GP on May 01 2024 11:02 PM
Any idea on GA date... ?
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in Introducing database watcher for Azure SQL on May 01 2024 08:58 AM
Hi @markgebbet - you can create a private endpoint for the watcher to connect to your ADX cluster with private connectivity. With that in place, you can restrict public access to the specific IP ranges of the hosts that will be accessing the data on the cluster. You can also disable public connectiv...
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in Logging Schema-changes in a Database using DDL Trigger on May 01 2024 06:47 AM
@nLightJC ever figure out a way around this issue with DDL Triggers? Log Analytics doesn't work well for DDL changes, and Event Notifications don't exist on Azure SQL Database, so I'm back to using DDL Triggers which I abandoned for the same reason you found. @AndreasWolter any suggestions?
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markgebbet
in Introducing database watcher for Azure SQL on May 01 2024 03:55 AM
Hi @Dimitri_Furman What is the best practice for securing the Azure Data Explorer Cluster when using it with Database Watcher? I wanted to limit network access to the cluster but trying to restrict IP ranges meant that the database watcher couldn't connect to the cluster. There don't seem to be any ...
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