Azure SQL Database introduces Regex-based dynamic data masking, a new capability that enables flexible, pattern-driven masking for string-based columns using regular expressions through the T‑SQL REG...

Your database should be part of the same development process as the rest of your application, with source control and automation for validation and deployment. Recent releases of SQL Server Managemen...

One Migration Experience, More Flexibility Modernizing SQL Server estates is rarely a single-step journey. Organizations often operate across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments while balan...

Summary Many of Enterprises around the globe have relied on SQL Server for over 3 decades to run their mission critical business applications. Their SQL Server estates face pressure from downtime r...

The problem we're solving Previously, Microsoft Entra identities in Azure SQL Database could only be created as contained database users - principals scoped to a single database with no server-leve...

For teams thinking about long-term cryptographic resilience, this preview is especially relevant. TDE with customer-managed keys has traditionally used asymmetric RSA-based key protectors, while broa...

At a glance — Native regular expression (regex) functions in T-SQL now accept varchar(max) and nvarchar(max) inputs of up to 2 MB across all seven regex functions, including the two table-valued fu...

To further enhance connectivity monitoring and improve service reliability, we’re introducing automatic internal connectivity tests for all Azure SQL Managed Instances. These tests are fully automate...

In this post, we’ll explain the core purpose of Dynamic Data Masking (to ease application development), how it works, and its proper use cases – as well as its limitations. If you’re considering usin...

As part of the retirement of lower TLS versions 1.0 and 1.1 and the enforcement of 1.2 as the new default minimum TLS version, we will be removing the No Minimum TLS (MinTLS = “None” or "0") option a...