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2026 42
- Database watcher for Azure SQL is retiring: simplify your monitoring with Database Hub
- Managing security with Database Hub in Fabric: From signals to action
- Public Preview: Alerts for Azure SQL Database in Database Hub, powered by Fabric Activator
- Modern Query Editor for Azure SQL Database is now generally available
- Managed Instance link with failover groups (limited preview)
- Make Estate yours: Focus on the databases and issues you own in Database Hub
- Azure SQL Database is retiring Always Encrypted with Intel SGX enclaves
- Public Preview: Auto-pause and auto-resume for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Serverless
- Database Hub in Fabric: Now in Public Preview -Turn Database Signals into Guided Action
- MI link support for multiple databases in an Always On availability group for SQL Server (Preview)
- Public Preview: Performance monitoring for Azure SQL in Database Hub
- Announcing the public preview of Local Time Zone Support in Azure SQL Database
- More performance and flexibility for Azure SQL Managed Instance Business Critical
- SQL Data Sync – the final phase of retirement
- Understanding DevOps Auditing API Migration Behavior in Azure SQL Database
- ICYMI: New Azure SQL Foundations video series with GitHub samples
- Introducing Simplified Regional Limits for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Public Preview: Zone-Redundant Next-Gen General Purpose for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- SQLCon is Back: 5 Reasons to Attend the European Microsoft Fabric + SQL Community Conference
- HostNameInCertificate changes in Azure SQL Managed Instance affecting client connectivity
- Announcing Automatic Backup Immutability for Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Regex-based dynamic data masking in Azure SQL Database (preview)
- Recently released: Updates to SQL projects in SSMS, VS Code, and SqlPackage
- Generally Available: SQL Migration to SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines in Azure Architecture
- 3 Reasons Enterprise SQL Server Migrations Slow Down - and How to Avoid Them
- Generally Available: Microsoft Entra Server Principals and Server Roles for Azure SQL Database
- Transparent data encryption in Azure SQL Database now supports AES keys (Public Preview)
- Regex support for LOB types in T-SQL—available in Azure SQL & SQL Server 2025
- Automatic Connectivity Tests for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Dynamic Data Masking – What it is, What it isn’t, and How to use it effectively
- Azure SQL is Retiring the “No Minimum TLS” (MinTLS None) Configuration
- Zero Trust for data: Make Microsoft Entra authentication for SQL your policy baseline
- Stream data in near real time from SQL MI to Azure Event Hubs - Public preview
- Database DevOps (preview) in SSMS 22.4.1
- Announcing Preview of 160 and 192vCore Premium-series Options for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale
- Versionless keys for Transparent Data Encryption in Azure SQL Database (Generally Available)
- Stop defragmenting and start living: auto index compaction is now generally available
- Managed Identity Support for Azure SQL Database Import & Export services (preview)
- GA of update policy SQL Server 2025 for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Why Developers and DBAs love SQL’s Dynamic Data Masking (Series-Part 1)
- Multiple secondaries for failover groups is now in public preview
- Why ledger verification is non-negotiable
2025 68
- 2025 Year in Review: What’s new across SQL Server, Azure SQL and SQL database in Fabric
- Identify causes of auto-resuming serverless workloads in Azure SQL Database
- Windows Authentication for Cloud-Native Identities: Modernizing Azure SQL Managed Instance (Preview)
- Whats new in the Backup/Restore area in SQL Server 2025
- Step-by-Step Guide: Route Azure SQL Audit Logs to Multiple Log Analytics Workspaces
- Azure SQL Database LTR Backup Immutability is now Generally Available
- General Availability announcement of Backup/Restore capabilities in SQL Server 2025
- How to get a free Azure SQL Database or Managed Instance
- Announcing Public Preview: Auditing for Fabric SQL Database
- Generally Available: Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-gen General Purpose
- Stream data in near real time from SQL to Azure Event Hubs - Public preview
- General Availability Announcement: Regex Support in SQL Server 2025 & Azure SQL
- Securing Azure SQL Database with Microsoft Entra Password-less Authentication: Migration Guide
- Improved Connectivity Types in Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Multiple geo-replicas for Azure SQL Hyperscale is now in public preview
- Geo-Replication and Transparent Data Encryption Key Management in Azure SQL Database
- 🔐 Public Preview: Backup Immutability for Azure SQL Database LTR Backups
- Introducing new update policy for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- MSSQL Extension for VS Code: Fabric Integration and GitHub Copilot Slash Commands (Public Preview)
- Everything you need to know about TDE key management for database restore
- Introducing the Azure SQL hub: A simpler, guided entry into Azure SQL
- Replication lag metric for Azure SQL DB is now in public preview
- MSSQL Extension for VS Code: Schema Compare, Schema Designer, Local SQL Server Container GA
- Higher log rate for business critical service tier in Azure SQL MI
- Announcing General Availability of UNISTR function and ANSI SQL || Operator in Azure SQL
- MSSQL Extension for VS Code: Agent Mode Updates, Colored Connections, and Schema Designer updates
- Convert geo-replicated databases to Hyperscale
- Announcing General Availability of Enhanced Server Audit for Azure SQL Database
- Immutability: A Powerful Shield Against Ransomware in SQL Environments
- Preparing for the Deprecation of TLS 1.0 and 1.1 in Azure Databases
- MSSQL Extension for VS Code: Local Containers, GitHub Copilot Agent Mode and Connection Groups
- Public Preview - Data Virtualization for Azure SQL Database
- Unlocking More Power with Flexible Memory in Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Faster Management Operations in Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Introducing "Backups on Secondary" for SQL Server Always On Availability Groups with SQL Server 2025
- Running SQL Server 2025 on Linux Containers in WSL
- Free SQL Managed Instance offer is now generally available
- ZSTD compression in SQL Server 2025
- Announcing the General Availability (GA) of JSON data type and JSON aggregates
- Unlocking the Power of Regex in SQL Server
- MSSQL Extension for VS Code: New UI Goes GA and GitHub Copilot Enters Preview
- Azure SQL Database Hyperscale - Enhanced Performance Features Are Now Generally Available!
- Recently released: Updates to the SqlPackage and the DacFx ecosystem
- How to enable Auditing in Azure SQL Databases to Storage account and store logs in JSON format
- Stream data changes from Azure SQL Managed Instance and Azure SQL Database – private preview of CES
- Database compatibility level 170 in Azure SQL Database and SQL database in Microsoft Fabric
- Announcing General Availability of Azure SQL Database Capabilities for Microsoft Copilot in Azure
- Enhancing Security with Conditional Access Policies for SQL Managed Instances
- Conversion to Hyperscale: Now generally available with enhanced efficiency
- ABORT_QUERY_EXECUTION query hint - public preview
- The Microsoft.Build.Sql project SDK is now generally available
- Seamless end-to-end SQL Server migration to Azure with Azure Arc
- Managed Instance link with SQL Server 2017 is now GA
- MSSQL Extension for VS Code: What’s new and what’s next
- When to Choose Zone Redundancy in Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Improving Azure SQL Database reliability with accelerated database recovery in tempdb
- Availability metric for Azure SQL DB is now generally available
- Exciting new T-SQL features: Regex support, Fuzzy matching, and bigint support in DATEADD – preview
- Native Windows principals for Azure SQL Managed Instance are now generally available
- Improving the conversion to Hyperscale with greater efficiency
- Azure Data Studio Retirement
- Introducing the Enhanced Azure SQL Database Free Offer: Now Generally Available
- Shrink for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale is now generally available
- Extending Regular Expressions (Regex) Support on Azure SQL Managed Instance (MI)
- Troubleshoot and optimize Hyperscale named replicas performance
- Stream data changes from Azure SQL Database - a call for Private Preview of Change Event Streaming
- Service endpoint policies for Azure Storage now generally available in SQL Managed Instance subnets
- Enhanced Server Audit for Azure SQL Database: Greater Performance, Availability and Reliability
2024 115
- Announcing a limited public preview of the ABORT_QUERY_EXECUTION query hint
- Limited public preview for enhanced log throughput for Azure SQL DB Hyperscale: Up to 150 MiB/s
- Embark on Your SQL Journey: Join the Learn Together Series
- Introducing the enhanced MSSQL Extension for Visual Studio Code
- Azure SQL Managed Instance Updates – #MSIgnite 2024
- Azure SQL Managed Instance pools: General Availability
- Free SQL MI Public Preview Refresh
- Announcing the General Availability (GA) of Mirroring for Azure SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric
- Announcing SQL database in Microsoft Fabric public preview
- Fabric Mirroring for Azure SQL Managed Instance now in Public Preview
- Geo Zone Redundant Storage (GZRS) is now available for additional Azure SQL database service tiers
- Introducing Reservations for Zone Redundant General Purpose SQL Database
- Simplified & lower pricing for Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance backup storage
- Always Encrypted Assessment and online encryption in SQL Server Management Studio 21
- What's New in SQL Server and Azure SQL: 2024 Year in Review
- Announcing enhancements to Azure SQL Database Hyperscale
- See in action DR between SQL Server 2022 and SQL MI
- Enhancing Resilience in Azure SQLDB Hyperscale Named Replicas with High Availability (HA) replica.
- Migrating from Amazon QLDB to ledger tables in Azure SQL Database: A Comprehensive Guide
- Online disaster recovery between SQL Server 2022 and Azure SQL Managed Instance is now GA
- Reduce costs by lowering the auto-pause delay for serverless compute in Azure SQL Database
- Azure SQL DB & MI Disaster Recovery: Take command and conquer any crisis!
- Moving from Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) to ledger in Azure SQL
- Elastic pools for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale now Generally Available!
- Preview release of SDK-style SQL projects in Visual Studio 2022
- Native JSON support now in preview in Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Introducing Simplified Subscription Limits for SQL Database and Synapse Analytics Dedicated SQL Pool
- Data Classification and Labelling in Azure SQL Database | Data Exposed
- Simplify development with Dev Container templates for Azure SQL Database
- Native Windows principals for SQL Managed Instance | Data Exposed
- General Availability: Maintenance window support for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale named replica.
- Using MI Link to transfer CLR binaries from SQL Server to Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Database Watcher: Your perfmon in the cloud | Data Exposed
- Azure SQL free database: Azure Data Studio, PowerApps, GitHub copilot, Power BI, and Generative AI
- Generate a report with generative AI | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- Build AI Applications with Redis and Azure SQL Database | Data Exposed
- Using Query Store to Capture PostgreSQL Performance in Azure Database | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- Cardinality Estimation Feedback Explained by Kate Smith (@akatesmith)
- Three New Capabilities to Modernize your SQL Server Anywhere with Azure Arc | Data Exposed
- How to choose between ledger in Azure SQL Database and Azure Confidential Ledger
- SLM (Small Language Model) with your Data | Data Exposed
- Azure Backup for SQL Server in Azure VM: Tips and Tricks from the Field
- Public Preview: Shrink for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale
- Authenticating Microsoft Entra ID using windows principal metadata - Public Preview
- Similarity Search with FAISS and Azure SQL | Data Exposed
- Azure SQL Managed Instance Zone Redundancy to begin billing
- JSON Type & Aggregates Public Preview in Azure SQL Database | Data Exposed
- General availability: Database compatibility level 160 in Azure SQL Database
- Announcing GA of Advance Notifications for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Azure SQL DB Vector Functions Private Preview | Data Exposed
- Efficient Time-Based Audit Log Filtering for Azure SQL Database
- Updates from the 162.3 release of SqlPackage and the DacFx ecosystem
- Azure SQL Database Availability metric | Data Exposed
- Always Encrypted vs Always Encrypted with secure enclaves
- Announcing UNISTR and || operator in Azure SQL Database – preview
- Azure SQL DB standby replica is now generally available | Data Exposed
- New T-SQL Enhancements in SQL Server 2022 | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- What’s new in SSMS 20 and what’s next in version 21 | Data Exposed
- Update Policy for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- General Availability of license-free standby replica for Azure SQL database
- Data API builder is now Generally Available | Data Exposed
- Try the Next-gen GP Azure SQL Managed Instance for free
- Key Mirroring to Azure SQL Database in Fabric Benefits | Data Exposed
- Introducing Regular Expressions (Regex) support in Azure SQL Database | Data Exposed
- Code Analyze your SQL scripts in Visual Studio and elsewhere | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- Approximate Vector Search with KMeans and Azure SQL | Data Exposed
- Build Great AI Apps using Azure SQL DB Hyperscale | Data Exposed
- Power Apps and Azure SQL Together | Data Exposed
- General availability: Elastic Jobs in Azure SQL Database
- Create SQL logins and users for nonunique Microsoft Entra principals with Object ID - GA
- Building AI ready applications | Data Exposed
- Announcing SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) for ARM64 Architecture in Visual Studio 17.10 Preview 2
- Introduction to Optimized Locking in Azure SQL Database | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- What’s new in SQL Server and Azure SQL: 2024 so far | Data Exposed News Update
- Introducing Copilot in Azure SQL Database (Private Preview) | Data Exposed
- Public preview: Label-based access control for Azure SQL Database using Microsoft Purview policies
- Announcing GA of Advance Maintenance Notifications for Azure SQL Database
- Public preview: Maintenance window support for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale elastic pools
- Announcing Mirroring Azure SQL Database in Fabric for Public Preview
- Introducing Regular Expression (Regex) Support in Azure SQL DB
- Microsoft Copilot in Azure extends capabilities to Azure SQL Database (Public Preview)
- Meet Microsoft SQL Product Leader - Sanjay Mishra | Data Exposed
- Introducing Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-gen GP
- Introducing database watcher for Azure SQL
- Support for Iterated and Salted Hash Password Verifiers in SQL Server 2022 CU12
- How to monitor the performance of your on-prem and multi-cloud SQL Servers with Azure Arc | Data Exp
- Azure SQL Trigger Binding for Azure Functions goes GA
- General Availability: Zone redundancy support for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale named replica
- How to convert Always Encrypted to Always Encrypted with Secure Enclaves
- Instant File Initialization for the transaction log | SQL Server 2022 Hidden Gems | Data Exposed
- Azure SQL MI premium-series memory optimized hw is now available in all regions with up to 40 vCores
- [Some] SQL Server and Azure SQL DB Security Fundamentals | Data Exposed
- Updates from 162.1 and 162.2 releases of SqlPackage and the DacFx ecosystem
- Public Preview: Zone redundancy for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale elastic pools
- The ABCs of ADX: Learning the Basics of Azure Data Explorer | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- Help 1,000 Las Vegas Community Members with Microsoft
- 16 TB of storage is now available for Premium-series in SQL Managed Instance Business Critical
- Overview of GitHub Actions deployments for Azure SQL | Data Exposed
- Get ready for take off with Microsoft at SQLBits 2024
- Always Encrypted with secure enclaves - Intel SGX vs VBS
- Encryption and Ledger in Azure SQL Database | Data Exposed
- General availability: serverless for Hyperscale in Azure SQL Database
- Azure Data @ Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 2024 | Data Exposed Exclusive
- Hands-free tempdb | SQL Server 2022 Hidden Gems | Data Exposed
- Save money with Arc SQL Server licensing - what you need to know | Data Exposed
- Invoking REST APIs with SQLCLR and Newtonsoft's Json.NET
- Azure SQL Managed Instance pools: new features
- Data MVPs and Microsoft Fabric Super Users in the Era of AI | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- More vCore options for SQL MI Business Critical for better price/performance and flexibility
- Azure SQL DB license-free standby replica | Data Exposed
- Mastering Maintenance - Strategies for seamless auto-updates on Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Why does a query fail when there is no error? | SQL Server 2022 Hidden Gems | Data Exposed
- Save up to 50% on your compute costs: SQL MI Business Critical improved its storage-to-vCore ratio
- Active geo-replication with ledger automatic digest management
- What's new in security for Azure SQL and SQL Server | Data Exposed
2023 141
- Cross-subscription support for SQL MI database copy and move - GA refresh!
- Free SQL Managed Instance
- SSMS 19 and “Can’t reach this page” message
- SQL Server Management Studio improvements for Always Encrypted
- SQL Server Discovery and Assessments now supports As on-premises assessments
- GA announcement - Microsoft Purview DevOps policies for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- What’s new in SQL Server and Azure SQL: 2023 Year in Review
- Ledger in Azure SQL Managed Instance now generally available
- Always Encrypted with secure enclaves – DC-series with up to 40 vCores now generally available
- VBS enclaves for Always Encrypted in Azure SQL Database now generally available
- Vector Search with Azure SQL Database and Azure AI Search
- Azure SQL Database Hyperscale – lower, simplified pricing!
- Announcing Public Preview of premium-series hardware for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale elastic pools
- A summary of Azure SQL Managed Instance product updates in 2023
- GA of DTC for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Online disaster recovery between SQL Server 2022 and SQL Managed Instance - Preview
- Announcing the General Availability of November 2022 Feature Wave for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- GA of database copy and move for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Premium-series Reserved Capacity for Azure SQL DB Hyperscale and Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Improved price/performance & flexibility in the Business Critical service tier on Azure SQL MI
- Announcing General Availability of Zone Redundancy for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Announcing General Availability of Stop-Start capability for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Microsoft SQL at PASS Data Community Summit
- Improving Extended Events in Azure SQL
- Azure SQL Database Elastic Jobs preview refresh
- Importing .NET FX and 3rd party DLLs into Azure SQL MI
- SQL Auditing support for OBO access request from middle tier applications in Microsoft Entra
- License-free DR on Azure SQL Managed Instance for SQL Server
- Minimize the downtime when migrating SQL workloads to Azure SQL Managed Instance
- TDE with database-level CMK now generally available for Azure SQL Database
- Ledger database vs ledger tables
- Announcing General Availability of SQL Database Hyperscale long-term backup retention
- Announcing General Availability of SQL Database Hyperscale short-term backup retention up to 35 days
- Non-scenarios with private endpoints to Azure SQL Managed Instance
- How to restore backups from AWS S3 to Azure SQL Managed Instance
- External REST Endpoint Invocation is now GA!
- Advanced scenarios with private endpoints to Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Delegating permission management using Roles vs WITH GRANT OPTION
- Scenarios with private endpoints to Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Your max log rate on SQL Managed Instance Business Critical is now doubled
- Unleashing SQL Sorcery: Increasing Performance and Complexity with GitHub Copilot
- Private endpoints GA for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Azure SQL News Update - August 2023
- General Availability of XML compression for Azure SQL Database and Managed Instance
- Have you noticed we’ve been recording videos?
- Well-architected framework performance in the Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Always Encrypted with secure enclaves – DC-series databases with up to 40 vCores
- 128 vCores on Azure SQL Managed Instance Business Critical
- GitHub Copilot for SQL Developers: Turbocharge your SQL Development Workflow
- How to automate Azure SQL Managed Instance database copy and database move operations
- SQL Managed Instance now available to all subscription types in large Azure regions
- VBS enclaves for Always Encrypted in Azure SQL Database elastic pools – preview
- Calling a REST service from Azure SQL DB | Data Exposed
- Securing your data ecosystem in Azure SQL Managed Instance
- The Right Tools for Optimizing Azure SQL Managed Instance Performance
- How do you use JSON data in Azure SQL Database & SQL Server 2022 | Data Exposed
- New benefits of Azure Arc Enabled SQL Server | Data Exposed
- Hybrid Flexibility in Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Build 2023: What's new in Azure SQL | Data Exposed
- Easy APIs with Azure SQL Database | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- Ledger in Azure Managed Instance | Data Exposed
- Save on licensing cost with Failover Rights for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Native JSON type & JSON aggregates are now in private preview for Azure SQL Database
- Always Encrypted Wizard now supports secure enclaves and in-place encryption
- Embed C# in the heart of the SQL Query Engine
- Introducing GitHub Copilot for Azure Data Studio
- Announcing general availability of the Azure SQL bindings for Azure Functions
- Ledger now in preview in Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Elastic pools for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale now in preview
- Set Yourself Up for Performance Success on Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Configure SQL Auditing to Storage Account using Managed Identity for SQL Managed Instance.
- What's new in SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) | Data Exposed
- Export capability (CETAS) for Data Virtualization in Azure SQL Managed Instance generally available
- Move your ledger history table to a different filegroup
- Plan your journey to Azure SQL with confidence
- Recently released: Updates to SqlPackage and the DacFx ecosystem
- Azure PostgreSQL Migration Extension (Assessments) for Azure Data Studio (Preview) | Data Exposed
- Increase high availability of serverless for Hyperscale with zone redundancy
- Always Encrypted with VBS enclaves in Azure SQL DB | Data Exposed
- Use Microsoft Purview to provide at-scale access to performance data in Azure SQL and SQL Server
- What's new in Azure SQL - May 2023
- Microsoft Purview DevOps policies now includes all the typical permissions for SQL support personnel
- Retirement of SNAC OLE DB provider for linked servers in Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Why Ledger, Always Encrypted, & AAD support in Azure SQL DB are vital for Zero Trust Architecture
- Announcing Degree of Parallelism Feedback Limited Preview
- Use Microsoft Purview DevOps policies to control access and limit insider threats | Data Exposed
- Announcing GA of the link feature for Azure SQL Managed Instance for SQL Server 2016 and 2019
- ScriptDOM .NET library for T-SQL parsing is now open source
- Bring your SQL expertise to the Data Lake with Serverless SQL Pools | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- Hi, I'm Mixa, your new author! :)
- Don’t let change pass you by! Get started with Change Tracking in your SQL Database | Data Exposed
- The Importance of TLS with SQL Server
- How to migrate data from regular tables to ledger tables
- Enable hassle-free migration between SQL Server and Azure SQL Managed Instance
- SQL Insider Series: Get Started with Azure Cognitive Search for Azure SQL | Data Exposed
- User Managed Identity support for Auditing Azure SQL Database is Generally Available Now.
- Announcing General Availability of Azure Data Studio extension SQL Database Projects
- Optimize Costs in Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Registering SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines with New IaaS Agent Extension Benefits (Ep. 12)
- Always Encrypted Token-based authorization with PowerShell
- In-place encryption with the Sqlserver PowerShell Module
- Azure SQL News Update: 2023 Q1
- SQLBits 2023: Bringing Your SQL Adventure to Life
- SQL Server 2022: T-SQL Enhancements [Ep. 6] | Data Exposed
- Private endpoints for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Microsoft Learn: Programming Databases with Transact-SQL for Beginners
- Capturing Query Metrics in Azure SQL Database | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- SQL Server 2022: Data Virtualization and Object Storage [Ep. 5] | Data Exposed
- Try or run Azure SQL Managed Instance for $100 per month
- Announcing the Release of Azure Data Studio 1.42
- SQL Server 2022 acceleration & offloading with Intel® QuickAssist Technology (QAT) | Data Exposed
- Top 25 most common SQL Server Engine Errors (MSSQLSERVER_XXXX)
- Rethink your backup & recovery strategy w/ T-SQL Snapshot Backup in SQL Server 2022 | Data Exposed
- Top 3 Best Practices for Power BI | Data Exposed
- Announcing Azure Data Tech Groups v2.0: Big News for User Groups and Members
- Announcing General Availability of Approximate Percentile Functions for Azure SQL DB and MI
- Inexpensive solution for managing access to SQL health, performance and security information
- Calling REST endpoints from T-SQL | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- Enable IT personnel to monitor SQL health and performance while reducing the insider risk
- Azure SQL VM: Assessing your migration landscape for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines [Ep.11]
- Repudiation Threats and ledger in Azure SQL Database/SQL Server
- SQL Server 2022: Security, scalability, availability [Ep. 4] | Data Exposed
- VBS enclaves for Always Encrypted in Azure SQL Database – preview
- Automatic compute scaling with serverless for Hyperscale in Azure SQL Database
- Recently released: Updates to DacFx and Microsoft.Build.Sql
- User Managed Identity support for Auditing Azure SQL Database is in Public Preview Now.
- Compressing Audit log files on Azure Blob Storage using ADF Pipeline for Azure SQL Database
- Self-service data discovery and access management using Microsoft Purview | Data Exposed
- Quick tips: How to do more with less in Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Watch out for performance problems due to antipattern queries in SQL
- SQL Server 2022: Built-in query intelligence [Ep. 3] | Data Exposed
- Network, Develop & Share @ SQLBits 2023 | Data Exposed Exclusive
- What’s New in Visual Studio Extensions for SSAS and SSRS | Data Exposed
- Interested in Joining the Azure Data Community Council?
- Roll with us at SQLBits 2023!
- SQL Server 2022: Cloud Connected [Ep. 2] | Data Exposed
- Configure your TempDB max size in Azure SQL Managed Instance
- How to easily teach yourself Azure Arc-enabled data services | Data Exposed
- Azure SQL VM: Azure Backup & restore for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines [Ep.10] | Data Exposed
- Microsoft R Application Network retirement
- Auditing for Named replicas and Geo replicas of Hyperscale Azure SQL Database
2022 181
- Azure Data Community Newsletter Nov/Dec 2022
- How to build a real-time leaderboard for the Soccer World Cup with Azure SQL & Redis | Data Exposed
- Summary of the 2022 Security Investments in Azure SQL and SQL Server 2022
- How to migrate SQL Server to Azure SQL Database offline using Azure Data Studio | Data Exposed
- Azure SQL News Update: A Year in Review
- 3 tools to help you move to Azure | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- Understanding Connectivity issues in SQL Database | Data Exposed
- Build data driven business case for SQL Server migration to Azure
- SQL Server 2022: Introducing SQL Server 2022 General Availability [Ep. 1] | Data Exposed
- Announcing GA of new premium-series hardware options for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale
- Announcing GA of 128 vCore provisioned compute size on Azure SQL Standard-series (Gen5)
- Move Azure SQL Managed Instance across the virtual networks
- Start your metadata driven adventure in Azure Data Factory | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- Troubleshooting external data and access policies in Azure SQL and SQL Server
- Azure SQL VM: SQL Server 2012/2008/2008R2 End of Support, What are Customers Options Now (Ep. 9)
- Announcing General Availability of Table Designer and Query Plan Viewer in Azure Data Studio
- What is the Failover rights benefit for GeoDr?
- Azure SQL News Update: November 2022
- 2022 – a year of unparalleled innovation in Azure SQL Managed Instance
- November 2022 Feature Wave for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Restoring a SQL Managed Instance database backup to SQL Server 2022 now GA
- Transactional Replication GA for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Database copy and move for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- The Ultimate Freedom of Movement between SQL Server 2022 and Managed Instance
- Log Replay Service for SQL MI is now Generally Available for SQL MI
- Provision SQL Managed Instance in under 30 minutes
- Optimize cost of SQL Managed Instances with new stop-start capability
- Distributed Transaction Coordinator for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Virtual Clusters hosting Azure SQL Managed Instance are enhanced
- Zone Redundancy for Azure SQL Managed Instance Business Critical service tier
- Relaxed network requirements for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Azure SQL Database External REST Endpoints Integration Public Preview
- Comparing migration vehicles for SQL Managed Instance - LRS vs. MI link
- Monitor Azure SQL Database Restore progress at more granular level
- Announcing public preview of the Azure SQL trigger for Azure Functions
- Intro assessment tooling for Oracle database migrations to Azure Database for PostgreSQL & Azure SQL
- Connection Security Improvements in SqlPackage 161
- Join Azure SQL Managed Instance Product Group at PASS Summit 2022
- SQL Insider Series: Architect your Azure Data Estate with Well-Architected Framework | Data Exposed
- Join Microsoft at PASS Data Community Summit 2022
- Azure Data Community Newsletter Sept/Oct 2022
- How to Analyze Query Plans in Azure Data Studio | Data Exposed
- Announcing Preview of Approximate Percentile Functions for Azure SQL DB and Azure SQL MI
- Import Export Service is now Generally Available on Azure SQL Hyperscale Database
- Build Confidence in Your Data with Ledger Databases and Tables | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- Announcing Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance Landing Zone Accelerator | Data Exposed
- Introducing Geo-Zone Redundant Storage (GZRS) for Azure SQL Managed Instance backups
- SQL Insider Series: How and Why to Virtualize your Data in Azure SQL Managed Instance | Data Exposed
- Migrate your sensitive data to SQL Server on Azure confidential VMs
- Recently Released: Updates to SqlPackage, DacFx, and GitHub sql-action
- Develop Apps with Azure SQL Database for Free | Data Exposed
- How to use Windows Auth with Azure SQL Managed Instance | Data Exposed
- Improve your SQL Managed Instance performance with new TempDB configurations
- General Availability of mem. opt. premium-series HW and 16 TB storage in BC in SQL Managed Instance
- Long-term backup retention(LTR) on Azure SQL Hyperscale service tier is now in preview
- Read-access geo-zone redundant storage (RA-GZRS) now available for Azure SQL Hyperscale databases
- Revamped SQL Permission system for Principle of Least Privilege and external policies – internals
- Full Text Indexing Basics with Azure SQL | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- How to take secure, on-demand backups on SQL Managed Instance
- How to check if global virtual network peering is supported on the virtual cluster for SQL MI
- Generally available: Ability to Reverse Migrate SQL database from Hyperscale to General Purpose tier
- Azure SQL News Update: September 2022
- Azure SQL Security: The What, Why & How of Securing your Data with Azure SQL (Ep. 6) | Data Exposed
- Migrating SQL Server workloads FAQ
- Data virtualization now generally available in Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Caching made easy in Azure SQL DB with FusionCache | Data Exposed
- User Managed Identity support for Auditing SQL Azure database:
- Overview of the Table Designer feature in Azure Data Studio | Data Exposed
- Start using EF Core with your existing Azure SQL Database in 5 minutes | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- Announcing General Availability (GA) of Zone Redundancy for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale tier
- Lessons Learned from the Azure Database Support Blog Series | Data Exposed
- Backup restore speed improvement for SQL Managed Instance
- Automated key rotation for TDE BYOK is now generally available for Azure SQL!
- New granular permissions for SQL Server 2022 and Azure SQL to improve adherence with PoLP
- Azure Data Community Newsletter Jul/Aug 2022
- SQL Insider Series: Protect your sensitive data using Azure SQL DB | Data Exposed
- Windows Authentication for Azure AD principals for SQL Managed Instance is now Generally Available
- SQL Insiders Series: Azure Advisor Signals – What are they | Data Exposed
- Start Planning Your Free, Azure Data Platform Training at Data Platform Summit 2022
- Azure SQL News Update: August 2022
- Azure Synapse Link for SQL | Data Exposed
- Prevent Data Exfiltration in Azure SQL Managed Instance
- How to explore your data estate using the Microsoft Purview data catalog | Data Exposed
- Track your data supply chain using Azure Purview | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- Backup and Restore your Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server workload | Data Exposed
- MS DTC for Azure SQL Managed Instance - extending distributed transaction support (private preview)
- Announcing the General Availability of premium-series hardware for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Bringing the power of blockchain to Azure SQL Database and SQL Server with ledger | Data Exposed
- Resumable restore improves SQL Managed Instance database migrations experience
- Azure SQL News Update: July 2022
- Securing supply chain systems with ledger in Azure SQL: Lenovo's story
- SQL Insider Series: Azure SQL DB – Automating scale up and down | Data Exposed
- Azure SQL Security: Database Protection with Defender for Cloud (Ep. 5) | Data Exposed
- Seven tips in seven minutes for the SQL Developer | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- Restoring a SQL Managed Instance database backup to SQL Server 2022 (Private Preview)
- Azure Arc-enabled data services Jumpstart scenarios updates | Data Exposed
- Azure SQL Database Hyperscale - Named Replicas feature is Generally Available (GA)
- High Availability in Azure SQL MI: Business Critical service tier
- SQL Insider Series: SQL Migration tools, which one and when? | Data Exposed
- Get up and running faster with the new post-database creation experience on the Azure Portal
- Announcing General Availability (GA) of Active geo-replication & Auto-failover groups for Hyperscale
- Migrate Amazon RDS for SQL Server to Azure SQL Managed Instance – Part 3 (Azure Data Factory)
- SQL Insider Series: Exporting Azure SQL DB BACPAC file to Azure with Azure Automation | Data Exposed
- User-assigned managed identity (UMI) in Azure AD for Azure SQL
- Azure SQL News Update: June 2022
- Migrating your database to Azure SQL - Preparation is everything | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- Build Announcements: SQL Server 2022 public preview and Azure SQL updates | Data Exposed
- New server roles for Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2022 in Public Preview
- Streamline development and accelerate developer velocity on Azure SQL Database
- Announcing JSON Enhancements in Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance and SQL Server 2022
- Ledger now generally available in Azure SQL Database
- Announcing the "Azure SQL Database External REST Endpoints Integration" Early Adoption Program
- Connecting SQL Server 2016 to Azure - SQL Managed Instance link | Data Exposed
- Migrate Amazon RDS for SQL Server to Azure SQL Managed Instance – Part 2 (Native Backup & Restore)
- SQL Insider Series: Restoring a backup from LTR in Azure SQL DB | Data Exposed
- Joining the Azure Data Community Advisory Council
- Maximize performance and scale with new SQL Managed Instance capabilities - Part 3
- How to Scale Your Apps in Azure SQL Database | Data Exposed
- Azure SQL News Update: May 2022
- Availability of Microsoft Information Protection labels for Azure SQL native data classification
- High Availability in Azure SQL MI: General Purpose service tier
- How to Accelerate Oracle to Azure Database Migration | Data Exposed
- Migrate Amazon RDS for SQL Server to Azure SQL Managed Instance – Part 1 (Overview)
- Announcing General Availability of Change Data Capture (CDC) on Azure SQL Database
- Azure SQL DB Hyperscale short-term backup retention up to 35 days now in preview
- Choose the Right SQL Engine Size in Synapse | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- Assess, Get Recommendations & Migrate SQL Server to Azure using Azure Data Studio | Data Exposed
- Microsoft.Build.Sql: the next frontier of SQL projects
- SQL data classification now offers Microsoft Information Protection labels in SSMS
- Improve your database performance with Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server | Data Exposed
- Zone redundancy for Azure SQL Database general purpose tier
- How to reverse migrate your Azure SQL Database from Hyperscale tier to General Purpose tier
- Announcing Azure SQL Migration extension for Azure Data Studio - General Availability
- Azure SQL DB Backup History - View backups of your Azure SQL Database
- Configure Auditing for Azure SQL Database series - Part2
- Develop applications faster with Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server | Data Exposed
- Azure SQL News Update: April 2022
- Online Database Move and Copy for SQL Managed Instance (Private Preview)
- Instant Realtime GraphQL on Azure SQL with Hasura | Data Exposed
- A new way to troubleshoot out-of-memory errors in the database engine
- Migrate SQL Server databases at scale to Azure using PowerShell / CLI
- Monitor Database Restore progress at more granular level
- What You Need to Know About Azure VM Sizing | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- How-to restore across different SQL Managed instances when using TDE with Customer Managed Keys
- Configure Auditing for Azure SQL Database series - part1
- SQL 911: A DBA’s Guidebook using Notebooks in Azure Data Studio | Data Exposed
- Exciting New Features in Azure Data Factory | Data Exposed
- Announcing link feature for Managed Instance now in public preview
- Import Export using Private Link now in Preview
- Announcing GA release of Azure SQL Maintenance Windows for SQL Database and SQL Managed Instance
- Azure SQL News Update: March 2022
- Announcing the New Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB Developer Specialty Certification | Data Exposed
- Announcing Data virtualization with Azure SQL Managed Instance – preview
- New Storage Redundancy options for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale tier
- System Page Latch Concurrency Enhancements in SQL Server 2022 (Ep. 6) | Data Exposed
- How to manage & measure database file autogrowth impact on Azure SQL Managed Instance
- How-to discover database files space configurations on Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Get Azure recommendation in Azure SQL Migration extension - February 2022 updates
- SQL Managed Instance closing the gap on SQL Server application compatibility - Part 2
- T-SQL Tuesday - Advice on running a user group
- SQL Server 2022: Introducing Buffer Pool Parallel Scan (Ep.5) | Data Exposed
- Connecting the Dots in Azure Data Studio with Database Projects and Source Control | Data Exposed
- SQL Server 2022 Storage Engine Capabilities (Ep. 4) | Data Exposed
- Enable Azure Key Vault Purge Protection for TDE BYOK in Azure SQL DB and MI
- Azure SQL VM: New and Improved SQL on Azure VM deployment & management experience (Ep.8)
- Azure Data Community User Group Leaders - Code of Conduct
- A guide to modernization vs. migration: Which is right for you? Part 1
- Migrate SQL Server to Azure | Data Exposed
- Ready for SQLBits 2022?
- Improving data loading performance On SQL Managed Instance with Business Critical service tier
- Azure SQL News Update: February 2022
- Introduction to Azure SQL Bindings for Azure Functions | Data Exposed
- Azure AD for Azure Data Services: Synapse Edition | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- Changing backup storage redundancy in Azure SQL MI
- How to Leverage Centrally-managed Azure Hybrid Benefit to Save Money, Manage Cost and Stay Compliant
- How-to improve data loading performance on SQL Managed Instance with General Purpose service tier
- Azure SQL VM: Optimally Configure SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines with SQL Assessment (Ep 7)
- Azure SQL News Update: January 2022
- How-to test failover group connectivity between primary and secondary SQL Managed Instances
- Azure Arc-enabled Data Services Directly Connected Mode Breakdown | Data Exposed
- How-to find out addressable Disk Space & Files Number on General Purpose service tier on SQL MI
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- Azure Key Vault Managed HSM support for TDE BYOK now available for Azure SQL
- KQL - The Next Query Language You Need to Learn | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- Guidance on Apache Log4j Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- User-Assigned Managed Identity support for TDE CMK (BYOK) is now generally available for Azure SQL!
- Azure SQL VM: Best Price-Performance with Ebdsv5 Series (Ep.6) | Data Exposed
- Azure SQL Migration extension - December 2021 updates
- Intelligent Query Processing in SQL Server 2022 (Ep.3) | Data Exposed
- Azure SQL News Update: A Year in Review
- SQL Server 2022: The cloud-connected database (Ep.2) | Data Exposed
- From Nowt to Query in 10 minutes: Azure Arc–enabled data services SQL Managed Instance |Data Exposed
- Top 3 Reasons to consider Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server | Data Exposed
- Azure Synapse Data Explorer for Log & Telemetry Management | Data Exposed
- Shape the Future of Azure SQL Products
- Introducing the New Speaker Library Initiative
- Private Preview: controlling access to Azure SQL at scale with policies in Purview
- Data Loading Best Practices on Azure SQL Database | Data Exposed
- Azure SQL News Update: November 2021
- Simplify Azure SQL Virtual Machines HA and DR configuration by adopting multi subnet approach
- Azure SQL Migration extension - November 2021 updates
- Migrate SQL Server on Linux using the Azure SQL Migration extension for Azure Data Studio
- Introduction to SQL Server 2022 (Ep.1) | Data Exposed
- Announcing the new premium-series hardware for SQL Managed Instance
- Mission-critical app modernization made easy with Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Managed Instance link – connecting SQL Server to Azure reimagined
- Use case scenarios for the new SQL Managed Instance Hardware Offerings
- Linked Servers Azure AD authentication available now for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Distributed transactions available now for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Make Your Azure SQL Managed Instance Passwordless
- Harden your Azure SQL Managed Instance workloads against data exfiltration
- Azure SQL Managed Instance supports mobility across the subnets
- Azure SQL Managed Instance Business Critical 16 TB is now in limited public preview
- What is exciting in Flexible Server for PostgreSQL on Azure | Data Exposed
- Using Azure Synapse Serverless Pools for Data Engineering | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- Automating Diagnostic Notebooks with Azure Serverless Architecture | Data Exposed
- Notebook Views in Azure Data Studio | Data Exposed
- Migrating to SQL: Introduction to Database Schema Conversion Toolkit (DSCT) (Ep. 9) | Data Exposed
- Announcing Azure SQL MI Repository on GitHub
- Azure SQL News Update: October 2021
- Azure SQL and Microsoft Purview work better together
- How-to monitor SQL MI Failover Group & Replicas availability
- Migrating to SQL: How to find the right Azure SQL SKU for your SQL workloads (Ep. 8) | Data Exposed
- SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances in Azure | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- Security concept: Audit Trail
- New Microsoft Learn Modules: Azure SQL IoT and Azure Arc-enabled data services | Data Exposed
- Change Tracking Cleanup–Part 3
- How to Use Citus to Shard Postgres, for Performance and Scale | Data Exposed
- Azure SQL Managed Instance – Terraform command available
- How-to determine the SQL MI Failover Group & HA Replicas Details
- How-to determine the SQL MI Failover Group configuration
- Data Platform Summit 2021 is a few days away!
- Using Query Store Hints to Optimize Memory Grants Improving Performance | Data Exposed
- Scalar UDF Inlining now available on Azure SQL
- Server roles for Azure SQL Database: Database Management without admin-access
- Azure SQL VM: Using PerfInsights to Evaluate Resource Health and Troubleshoot (Ep. 5) | Data Exposed
- Azure SQL News Update: September 2021
- Announcing Azure SQL Migration extension for Azure Data Studio - public preview
- Azure SQL MI now removes virtual cluster as part of the delete flow
- Improved columnstore data loading using Query Store hints
- Managing SQL Server Agent Jobs with Notebook Jobs in Azure Data Studio | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- Azure SQL Managed Instance – introduction to #SQLMIOPS
- Migrating to SQL: New Conversion Reports in SSMA (Ep. 7) | Data Exposed
- How-to determine the timestamp of the last SQL MI failover
- Azure SQL VM: Get the best price-performance for your SQL Server workloads on Azure VM (Ep. 4)
- Learn how Azure SQL works with Azure Purview on at the Azure Data Governance event on September 28
- SQL Managed Instance How-tos series
- Azure SQL VM: Use Azure Monitor Metrics to Track VM Cache Health (Ep. 3) | Data Exposed
- How-to find out reserved and available Disk Space on SQL MI
- Azure SQL News Update: August 2021
- Azure SQL VM: Automate Management with the SQL Server IaaS Agent extension (Ep. 2) | Data Exposed
- Using Qlik Data Integration to Stream Data Changes from a CDC-Enabled Azure SQL Database
- Configuring backup storage redundancy in Azure SQL Hyperscale
- Database copy for Azure SQL Hyperscale now generally available!
- How-to find out the SQL MI total amount of RAM
- Use external table on Azure SQL Managed Instance to read data from Azure SQL Database
- Azure SQL VM: Caching and Storage Capping (Ep. 1) | Data Exposed
- How-to find out the SQL MI number of CPU vCores
- SQL Server on Linux Storage Secrets | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- Scale Out Your Databases with Azure SQL Hyperscale Named Replicas | Data Exposed
- Stream Data Changes from a CDC-Enabled Azure SQL Database to an External Target Using Striim
- Using SQL Data Sync for Bidirectional Data Replication in SQL Server and Azure SQL Databases
- Always Encrypted with secure enclaves now generally available in Azure SQL Database
- Using Change Data Capture and Azure Data Factory to Incrementally Load Change Data
- How-to find out the SQL MI Service Tier basic details with T-SQL
- Five Practical Tips to Limitless Data Integration Using Azure Data Factory | Data Exposed
- Azure SQL News Update: July 2021
- Azure Data Community: Explore Upcoming Events
- Track and Record Data Changes with Change Data Capture (CDC) in Azure SQL | Data Exposed
- Modernizing SSRS And A Step-by-Step Guide to Bringing ReportServer Databases to SQL Managed Instance
- Performance Tuning on Azure SQLDB and Readable Secondaries | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- Deep Dive into Change Data Capture (CDC) in Azure SQL Databases
- Azure SQL Database Ledger - The power of blockchain with the simplicity of SQL | Data Exposed
- Azure SQL Database Hyperscale named replicas are now in preview
- Migrating to SQL: Get Started with Azure SQL Readiness Assessments and Migrations from ADS (Ep. 6)
- Choosing an Azure ledger technology
- Making your voice heard with the Microsoft Data Community Advisory Board
- Azure SQL News Update: June 2021
- Query Store Hints in Azure SQL Database | Data Exposed
- Introducing Change Data Capture for Azure SQL Databases (Public Preview)
- Query Store Hints Preview
- Increased storage limit to 16 TB for SQL Managed Instance General Purpose
- Azure Active Directory only authentication for Azure SQL
- Parallel backup for better performance in SQL Managed Instance General Purpose
- How to Set up Azure Monitor for SQL Insights | Data Exposed
- Security: Separation of Privilege
- Migrating to SQL: Enabling Automatic Conversions for Partitioned Tables (Ep.5) | Data Exposed
- Disaster Recovery Options for Azure SQL Databases | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- Announcing Azure SQL Database ledger
- Migrating to SQL: Validate Migrated Objects Using SSMA (Ep. 4) | Data Exposed
- Database migration from Managed Instance to SQL Server with transactional replication
- Using data-tier applications (BACPAC) to migrate a database from Managed Instance to SQL Server
- Moving databases from Azure SQL Managed Instance to SQL Server
- Migrating to SQL: Introduction to SSMA (Ep. 3) | Data Exposed
- Support for Azure AD user creation on behalf of Azure AD Applications for Azure SQL DB
- Migrating to SQL: Discover and Assess SQL Server Data Estate Migrating to Azure SQL (Ep. 2)
- Migrating to SQL: Cloud Migration Strategies and Phases in Migration Journey (Ep. 1) | Data Exposed
- Azure SQL Edge now runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Azure SQL News Update: May 2021
- Cross-instance distributed transactions with Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Understanding the Benefits of Intelligent Query Processing | Data Exposed
- Storage 101 for Azure SQL and SQL Server Engineers | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- Introducing the GREATEST and LEAST T-SQL functions
- How to Parameterize Notebooks for Automation in Azure Data Studio | Data Exposed
- Use Helm Charts from Windows Client Machine to Deploy SQL Server 2019 Containers on Kubernetes
- Royal Bank of Canada using Always Encrypted with secure enclaves
- Get Started with Azure Data Explorer using Apache Spark for Azure Synapse Analytics | Data Exposed
- Azure SQL News Update: April 2021
- Get Started with the New Database Migration Guides to Migrate Your Databases to Azure | Data Exposed
- Granular Permissions for Azure SQL Dynamic Data Masking | Data Exposed
- Easy Ways to Refresh Tabular Models | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- Optimize your Azure SQL Managed Instance cost with Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework
- How to Enable AD Authentication for SQL 2019 Containers in Less than 5 Minutes | Data Exposed
- Shape the Future of Azure SQL Products!
- What's New in Azure SQL Auditing | Data Exposed
- Azure Monitor SQL Insights – Preview
- Cross-instance Service Broker message exchange for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Security: Delegation of Authority
- Azure Active Directory only authentication for Azure SQL
- Community Update - Introducing the Microsoft Azure Data Community Advisory Board
- Azure SQL Auditing of Microsoft support operations is now generally available
- How to Run SQL Assessment Checks in Azure SQL MI | Data Exposed
- How to Create Operational Analytics with Window Functions in Azure SQL - Part 3 | Data Exposed
- Considerations of Data Partitioning on Spark during Data Loading on Clustered Columnstore Index
- Long-term backup retention on Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Azure SQL News Update: March 2021
- Azure SQL Auditing to Log Analytics & Event Hubs now generally available
- Optimize Existing Databases & Apps with Operational Analytics in Azure SQL - Part 2 | Data Exposed
- How to Deploy Azure SQL Anywhere – Using Azure Arc for Data Services | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- How Azure SQL Enables Real-time Operational Analytics (HTAP) - Part 1 | Data Exposed
- Migrate databases from SQL Server to SQL Managed Instance using Log Replay Service (Preview)
- The Positive Impact of Intelligent Query Processing
- Azure Data Community FAQs
- Protect Your SQL Anywhere Using Azure Defender for SQL | Data Exposed
- Testing App Cloud Readiness for Failover Resiliency with SQL Managed Instance | Data Exposed
- Azure SQL News Update: February 2021 | Data Exposed Live
- Security: The Need-to-know principle
- Security: The Principle of Least Privilege (POLP)
- Always Encrypted with secure enclaves in Azure SQL Database preview
- A Tour of SQL Workshops | Data Exposed
- User initiated manual failover on SQL Managed Instance
- Improving your databases with Azure SQL Database tips
- SQL Server 2019 Always Encrypted: The Searchable Encryption! | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- Azure SQL Connectivity Performance Tips & Tricks | Data Exposed
- Intro into security principles in the context of database systems
- Simplify Authentication with Managed Identities for Azure Resources | Data Exposed
- Getting insights into the utilization of SQL Server licenses on Azure to optimize cost
- How to Troubleshoot Elastic Jobs in Azure SQL Database | Data Exposed
- Running & Monitoring Elastic Jobs in Azure SQL Database Using PowerShell and T-SQL | Data Exposed
- LAUNCH: Azure SQL News and Data Exposed Update: January 2021 | Data Exposed Live
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- How to Create Elastic Jobs in Azure SQL Database Using T-SQL | Data Exposed
- How to Create Elastic Jobs in Azure SQL Database Using PowerShell | Data Exposed
- The A to S of Azure Data Studio | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- Understanding High-Performant, Hybrid Data Integration Using Azure Data Factory | Data Exposed
- Azure SQL from the Edge to the Cloud | Data Exposed
- How to Improve Your Azure SQL Performance by up to 800%
- Using Azure Pipelines for Azure SQL Deployments | Data Exposed
- Introducing Private Link for SQL Data Sync (Public Preview)
- Transparent Data Encryption with customer-managed keys for Azure SQL Hyperscale now available
- Getting Started with DevOps for Azure SQL | Data Exposed
- Logging Schema-changes in a Database using DDL Trigger
- Top Reasons Your On-premises SQL Server Instance Can Benefit from Azure | Data Exposed
- Top Reasons To Rehost your SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines | Data Exposed
- Azure SQL Database: Improving Performance Tuning with Automatic Tuning | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- New Software Assurance Benefits for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines | Data Exposed
- Using Kusto Query Language (KQL) in Azure Data Studio | Data Exposed
- Leveling Up Your Azure SQL Database Deployments | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- Understanding Backup Storage Redundancy in Azure SQL
- Azure SQL auditing of Microsoft support operation is now in Preview
- Creating Your First Azure SQL Database | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- How to Assess Readiness of SQL Server Data Estate Migrating to Azure SQL | Data Exposed
- Hear from your Favorite Microsoft Azure Data Speakers at Data Platform Summit
- Serverless Streaming At Scale with Azure SQL
- Raising log rate limits for General Purpose service tier in Azure SQL Database
- Build SQL Database Projects Easily in Azure Data Studio | Data Exposed
- Infrastructure as Code and Azure – A Match Made in the Cloud (Part 2) | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- Data Discovery & Classification is now free for Azure SQL Database & Azure Synapse Analytics
- Optimize storage usage for large volumes of IoT data with Azure SQL
- Ingest millions of events per second on Azure SQL leveraging Shock Absorber pattern
- Build your full-PaaS IoT solution with Azure SQL Database
- Running 1M databases on Azure SQL for large SaaS provider: Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform
- Azure SQL Capacity Planning: Scenarios | Data Exposed
- The Azure Data Team Gears Up for PASS Virtual Summit 2020
- New Feature: Global VNet Peering support for Azure SQL Managed Instance | Data Exposed
- Compete. Learn. Win. Sign Up for the Azure SQL Championship Today!
- Announcing Major Performance Improvements for Azure SQL Managed Instance | Data Exposed
- Infrastructure as Code and Azure – A Match Made in the Cloud (Part 1) | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- TodoMVC Full Stack with Azure Static WebApps, Node and Azure SQL #beginners #node #sql #serverless
- How to Secure Azure SQL Database by Setting Minimal TLS Version | Data Exposed
- What’s new in Azure SQL Managed Instance at Ignite 2020
- Announcing major performance improvements for Azure SQL Database Managed Instances
- Hosting SSRS databases in Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Hybrid Disaster Recovery Scenarios for SQL Server | Data Exposed
- Track progress of SQL Managed Instance create/scale request
- Database copy preview on Azure SQL Database Hyperscale
- How to Shut Off Public Connectivity to Azure SQL Database | Data Exposed
- An Introduction to Microsoft Hybrid SQL Server Solutions | Data Exposed
- Azure SQL Edge: Demo, Renewable Energy | Data Exposed
- Join the Azure SQL/ SQL Server Experts at Microsoft Ignite 2020
- Azure SQL Edge: Industry Use Cases & Customer Success | Data Exposed
- Azure Data Sessions You Won't Want to Miss at SQLBits 2020
- What is Azure SQL Edge | Data Exposed
- Azure SQL Capacity Planning: DTU or vCore? | Data Exposed
- Improve Query Performance by Managing Statistics in Azure SQL | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- Azure SQL Capacity Planning: Overview | Data Exposed
- Learning How to Transition Your SQL Server Skills to Azure SQL | Data Exposed
- New Azure SQL Learning Tools Launched
- Configuring backup storage redundancy in Azure SQL
- Azure SQL – Automated Backups (Part 2) | Data Exposed
- Enhanced support for Azure AD Guest Users for Azure SQL
- Azure SQL - Automated Backups (Part 1) | Data Exposed
- Changing default MAXDOP in Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance
- GA of new memory and compute optimized hardware options in Azure SQL Database
- Benchmarking SQL Server and Azure SQL with WorkloadTools | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- Azure SQL and IoT | Data Exposed
- The Benefits of Advanced Threat Detection in Azure SQL Database | Data Exposed: MVP Edition
- Why Azure SQL is Best for Developers (Part 2) | Data Exposed
- Data Exposed + MVPs = Better together
- COVID-19 data analytics and reporting with Azure Databricks and Azure SQL
- Why Azure SQL is Best for Developers (Part 1) | Data Exposed
- Best Options for Database Migration into Azure
- Elastic Jobs in Azure SQL Database (Part 2) | Data Exposed
- Elastic Jobs in Azure SQL Database (Part 1) | Data Exposed
- Improving concurrency of asynchronous statistics update
- Azure SQL Sessions Recap at Microsoft Build 2020
- Public preview: TDE with customer managed keys on Azure SQL Hyperscale
- Azure SQL Zone Redundant Configuration for High Availability | Data Exposed
- Intro - SQL Server Transparent Data Encryption and Extensible Key Management Using Azure Key Vault
- Private Link for Azure SQL Database (Part 2) | Data Exposed
- Learning from Microsoft Advertising Platform on Azure SQL
- Private Link for Azure SQL Database (Part 1) | Data Exposed
- Fine tuning backup storage costs on SQL Managed Instance
- Backup storage consumption on Managed Instance explained
- Azure SQL Auditing to a storage account destination behind a Virtual Network or a Firewall
- Load data from Azure Blob storage into Azure SQL | New Data Exposed episode
- New Data Exposed episode: Updating connection policies for Azure SQL
- An update from Data Exposed: New episodes and more
- Using Failover Groups with Private Link for Azure SQL Database
- Azure AD pass-through and password hash authentication support for SQL DB, DW and Managed Instance
- Azure SQL Database Connectivity and Network Security improvements
- Sync Mobile Apps with Azure using Change Tracking API
- Troubleshooting Common issues with Elastic Jobs in Azure SQL Database
- Management operations and data access for Azure SQL Database with Golang
- Running, Scheduling and Monitoring Elastic Jobs in Azure SQL Database
- Creating an Elastic Jobs Agent, Credentials, and Jobs for Azure SQL Database using T-SQL
- Creating an Elastic Jobs Agent, Credentials, and Jobs for Azure SQL Database in PowerShell
- 10K Request per Second: REST API with Azure SQL, Dapper and JSON
- Fundamental Concepts for Elastic Jobs in Azure SQL Database
- Elastic Jobs in Azure SQL Database – What and Why
- Autoscaling Azure SQL Hyperscale
- Compute-optimized Fsv2 hardware in Azure SQL Database
- New Data Exposed episode: It's just SQL: CLR in Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
- New Data Exposed episode: How to connect to Azure SQL Database from Azure Data Studio
- Scaling up an IoT workload using an M-series Azure SQL database
- New Data Exposed episode: Deployment options for Azure SQL Database
- New Data Exposed episode: It's just SQL: Collations in Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
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- Integrate Microsoft cloud services with your Azure SQL Database managed instance
- Monitoring options available for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Troubleshooting problems related to Azure AD authentication with Azure SQL DB and DW
- Building REST API with Python, Flask and Azure SQL
- New Data Exposed episode: Discovering, classifying, labeling & protecting SQL data
- General availability: Database compatibility level 150 in Azure SQL Database
- Ingest real time streaming data in SQL Database tables
- Optimize price-performance with compute auto-scaling in Azure SQL Database serverless
- New memory and compute optimized hardware options in Azure SQL Database
- General availability for Azure AD server principals (logins) for SQL Managed Instance
- New Data Exposed episode: Mark Russinovich on Azure SQL Database Edge, Hyperscale and beyond
- 10 Reasons why Azure SQL is the Best Database for Developers
- Meet the Microsoft SQL team at PASS Summit 2019
- Meet the SQL team at Microsoft Ignite 2019
- T-SQL DDL support for Windows users migration from SQL Server databases to SQL Managed Instance
- SQL Server database consolidation in Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
- New Data Exposed episode: It's just SQL: Native Backup and Restore
- JSON in your Azure SQL Database? Let’s benchmark some options!
- SQL Server Migration to Azure Live Show
- New Data Exposed episode: It’s just SQL: Restoring a database to Azure SQL DB from backup
- New Data Exposed episode: How to manage R packages in Azure SQL Database with sqlmlutils
- New Data Exposed episode: Benefit from SQL VM Resource Provider when self-installing SQL Server on
- Monitoring Azure SQL Database with Telegraf
- New Data Exposed episode: Switching an existing Azure SQL DB from Provisioned Compute to Serverless
- Azure SQL DB Design Note: Choosing the Right Database Reservation Size
- New Data Exposed episode: How to switch an existing Azure SQL Database to Hyperscale
- Hot Patching SQL Server Engine in Azure SQL Database
- New Data Exposed episode: Docs on Azure SQL Database Machine Learning Services
- Automate migration to SQL Managed Instance using Azure PowerShell and DbaTools
- New Data Exposed episode: Demo – Vnet Firewall Rules for SQL Database
- Increase data file size to improve HammerDB workload performance on General Purpose Managed Instance
- Announcing the General Availability of SQL Data Discovery & Classification
- Unified Azure SQL experience
- Track unauthorized backups on Azure SQL Database Managed Instance using Auditing
- New Data Exposed episode: SQL Database Connectivity Explained
- Meet the SQL Product Team at Data Platform Summit 2019
- New Data Exposed episode: A conversation about SLA for Azure SQL Database
- New Data Exposed episode: Exploding Bill of Materials using Graph Shortest Path
- Improve Java application reliability with Azure SQL Database using JDBC and connection pooling.
- Optimize Azure SQL Database Bulk Upsert scenarios
- Using Query Store with least privileges instead of db_owner to achieve Separation of Duties
- New Data Exposed episode: Data Migration Assistant
- New Data Exposed episode: Data Migration life-cycle
- Azure SQL joins forces with Data Exposed - the show that is all about data
- Introducing UTF-8 support for Azure SQL Database
- Getting started with Azure SQL Database Hyperscale
- Beat SQL Server 2008/R2 End of Support by moving to Azure VM for three years of free security update
- Check out what’s new in June 2019 version of Azure SQL Database managed instance
- Change hardware generation on Managed Instance
- The best practices for performance comparison between Azure SQL Managed Instance and SQL Server
- Monitor CPU usage on SQL Server and Azure SQL
- Troubleshooting BULK INSERT and OPENROWSET issues on Azure SQL Database
- Troubleshooting potential file and storage issues on Managed Instance
- Take a COPY_ONLY backup of TDE protected database on Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Troubleshooting potential backup/restore issues on Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Troubleshooting Database Mail issues in Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Do you need more memory on Azure SQL Managed Instance?
- Azure AD Service Principal authentication to SQL DB - Code Sample
- Intelligent Query Processing Q&A
- Public endpoint for SQL Database Managed Instance is available as of today
- Our new Azure SQL Database blog is live!
- Reduced recompilations for workloads using temporary tables across multiple scopes
- Getting started with Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Restore dropped database on Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Azure SQL Managed Instance Business Critical tier is Generally Available
- Modify Azure SQL Database Managed Instance using Azure CLI
- Create Azure SQL Managed Instance using Azure CLI
- Diagnostic Data for Synchronous Statistics Update Blocking
- What Azure permissions are required to create SQL Managed Instance?
- Public preview of derived tables and views on graph tables in MATCH queries
- Introducing Scalar UDF Inlining
- Announcing Public Preview of Accelerated Database Recovery
- September 2018 Leaderboard of Database Systems contributors on MSDN
- Analysing inventory of Managed Instances using T-SQL
- August 2018 Leaderboard of Database Systems contributors on MSDN
- SQL Vulnerability Assessment now supports Azure SQL Data Warehouse and Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
- Introducing Batch Mode on Rowstore
- Always Encrypted with Secure Enclaves - Try It Now in SQL Server 2019 Preview!
- The easiest way to create Azure VM that can access your Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Persisting SQL Agent job history in Managed Instance
- SQL Audit logs in Azure Log Analytics and Azure Event Hubs
- What is built-in intelligence in Azure SQL Database?
- Working with Azure SQL Managed Instance using Azure CLI
- Sending emails in Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Reaching Azure disk storage limit on General Purpose Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
- Database ownership chaining in Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Azure SQL Vulnerability Assessment - now with PowerShell support!
- Pearl Abyss: Massive Scale using Azure SQL Database
- Approximate Count Distinct enters Public Preview in Azure SQL Database
- Public Preview of MATCH support in MERGE DML for Graph tables in Azure SQL Database
- Public Preview of Row Mode Memory Grant Feedback in Azure SQL Database
- Public Preview of Table Variable Deferred Compilation in Azure SQL Database
- Validate your Azure network environment for SQL Managed Instance
- PowerShell cmdlets for managing SQL Vulnerability Assessments
- Deploy Azure SQL Managed Instance network environment using ARM
- Point-in-time restore of a database on Azure SQL Managed Instance using AzureRm.Sql PowerShell library
- Quick-start script: Create Azure SQL Managed Instance using PowerShell library
- Quick-start script: Setup Azure network environment for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Cross-instance point-in-time restore in Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
- Create database on Azure SQL Managed Instance using Azure.Rm PowerShell library
- Change size of Azure SQL Managed Instance using PowerShell
- Updating Azure SQL Managed Instance properties using ARM templates
- Creating Azure SQL Managed Instance using ARM templates
- How Azure SQL Database makes database management easier?
- Azure SQL Database – scalability
- Azure SQL Database – the database engine that cannot die
- How to configure network for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Demo - Azure SQL Database Managed Instance in action
- How to configure tempdb in Azure SQL Managed Instance(preview)
- What is Azure SQL Database Managed Instance?
- What is Azure SQL Database Managed Instance?
- Introducing SQL Information Protection for Azure SQL Database and on-premises SQL Server!
- Migrating to Azure SQL Database with Zero Downtime for Read-Only Workloads
- Working with Azure IoT data in Azure SQL Database
- Compatibility Level 140 is now the default for Azure SQL Database
- Azure Log Analytics (OMS) Agent now collects SQL Server audit logs
- SQL Vulnerability Assessment now available for SQL Server 2012 and up
- Azure SQL Database: Ingesting 1.4 million sustained rows per second with In-Memory OLTP & Columnstore Index
- Configure Azure Storage for SQL Database backups
- Native database backup in Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Enabling Confidential Computing with Always Encrypted using Enclaves (Early Access Preview)
- Announcing general availability of Native Scoring using PREDICT function in Azure SQL Database
- Enabling communication traces in C# application for Azure AD authentication with SQL DB using token-based mechanism with Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
- Default compatibility level 140 for Azure SQL databases
- Token-based authentication including Multi-factor auth (MFA) for Azure SQL DB using Azure Active Directory (AD)
- “What are you waiting for?” – Introducing wait stats support in Query Store
- Azure SQL databases in logical servers, elastic pools, and managed instances
- Now Available: Guide for enhancing privacy and addressing GDPR requirements with the Microsoft SQL platform
- Automatic index management in Azure SQL database
- Threat Detection in Azure SQL Database is now Generally Available
- Newly created Azure SQL databases will be encrypted at rest by default
- Certificate-based authentication for Azure SQL DB using Azure Active Directory with recent Azure RM PowerShell version
- Comparing performance of data access libraries using StackExchange/Dapper benchmark
- Loading files from Azure Blob Storage into Azure SQL Database
- Blob Auditing in Azure SQL Database is Generally Available
- Getting Started with Always Encrypted using PowerShell
- Parameterization for Always Encrypted - Using SSMS to Insert into, Update and Filter by Encrypted Columns
- Azure samples for Azure AD .Net WebApi using Azure AD "on-behalf of token" to connect to SQL DB and SQL DW
- Feature Spotlight: Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)
- SQL Server Connector support for private Azure clouds
- Implementing Product Catalogs in SQL Server and Azure SQL database
- JSON is Generally available in Azure Sql Database!
- SQL Threat Detection – Your built-in security expert
- Always Encrypted in Azure SQL Database is Generally Available
- Developing Databases using Always Encrypted with SQL Server Data Tools
- SQL Server Connector for Azure Key Vault is Generally Available
- IoT code sample - loading messages from Event Hub into Azure SQL Database
- Improved Query Performance with Compatibility Level 130 in Azure SQL Database
- JSON is available in Azure SQL Database
- Token-based authentication support for Azure SQL DB using Azure AD auth
- Row-Level Security block predicates are generally available on Azure SQL Database
- Using the Azure Key Vault Key Store Provider for Always Encrypted
- Azure Key Vault Integration for Azure SQL Server VMs
- Azure SQL Database Transparent Data Encryption General Availability
- New Row-Level Security functionality: Block predicates (preview)
- Examples of some connection errors for Azure Active Directory Authentication
- Creating Custom Key Store Providers for Always Encrypted (Azure Key Vault Example)
- Azure Active Directory Authentication – troubleshooting potential connectivity issues
- Recommendations for using Cell Level Encryption in Azure SQL Database
- How to: Scale out multi-tenant apps using RLS and Elastic Database Tools
- Announcing Transparent Data Encryption for Azure SQL Database
- Updated MSDN Documentation for Azure SQL Database Row-Level Security
- Row-Level Security for Azure SQL Database
- Auditing in Azure SQL Database
- Azure Trust Services
- SQL Server Backup to URL – a cheat sheet
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- Real-time performance monitoring for Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
- Storage performance best practices and considerations for Azure SQL DB Managed Instance (General Purpose)
- Turbo boost data loads from Spark using SQL Spark connector
- CPU and Memory Allocation on Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
- Azure SQL DB Managed Instance - sp_readmierrorlog
- SQL Server VLDB in Azure: DBA Tasks Made Simple
- Recent Updates to setting up SQL Server Availability Groups in Azure VM with AAD Domain Services
- Top Questions from New Users of Azure SQL Database
- Secure your on-premises network outbound connection to Azure SQL Database by locking down target IP addresses
- Instant Log Initialization for SQL Server in Azure
- Performance impact of memory grants on data loads into Columnstore tables
- Build a recommendation system with the support for graph data in SQL Server 2017 and Azure SQL DB
- Try and try again: not always a good idea (at least not for SSMS!)
- Backing up a VLDB to Azure Blob Storage
- SQL Server Availability Groups in Azure VM setup with AAD Domain Services
- Migration from SQL Server to Azure SQL Database Using Transactional Replication
- How to Check Database Availability from the Application Tier
- Oops Recovery with Temporal Tables
- Migrating from SQL Server to Azure SQL Database using Bacpac Files
- Determining Database Size in Azure SQL Database V12
- Using SQL Always Encrypted with Azure Web App Service
- Real-World Azure SQL DB: Unexpected Database Maximum Size Limit
- Connect to Azure SQL Database V12 via Redirection
- Using Table Valued Parameters with Always Encrypted in SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database
- Large SQL Server database backup on an Azure VM and archiving