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UTF-8 support is now in preview for Azure SQL Database, allowing more options to companies extending their businesses to a global scale, where the requirement of providing global multilingual database applications and services is critical to meet custo… Continue reading Introducing UTF-8 support for Azure SQL Database
First published on MSDN on Sep 20, 2018 Azure SQL Managed Instance is a fully managed SQL Server hosted in Azure cloud. Although it supports many SQL Server features, there are some constraints compared to SQL Server that you manage. One of the const… Continue reading Persisting SQL Agent job history in Managed Instance
This July were celebrating the first anniversary of the Katas; lets look at the how the project grew and evolved during this year.
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Azure SQL Database Hyperscale (or Hyperscale for short :smileyhappy:) takes your database to the next level by removing size and query limitations typically found in cloud databases. Your database can scale up to 100 TB in size and … Continue reading Getting started with Azure SQL Database Hyperscale
Today, On July 9, 2019, support for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 ended. But there is still time to protect those workloads by rehosting to Azure SQL Database Managed Instance to run on latest version of SQL Server or to SQL Server virtual machines to ge… Continue reading Beat SQL Server 2008/R2 End of Support by moving to Azure VM for three years of free security update
In June 2019 Azure SQL Database offered a major refreshed release of Azure SQL Database managed instance (SQL MI), adding a rich set of innovations, complementing the Generally Available version of this product.
These enhancements result in SQL … Continue reading Check out what’s new in June 2019 version of Azure SQL Database managed instance
First published on MSDN on Sep 25, 2018
SQL Vulnerability Assessment is now available for Azure SQL Data Warehouse and for Azure SQL Database Managed Instance. The assessment functionality and experience are similar to that of
First published on MSDN on Sep 24, 2018
Last year SQL Server 2017 and Azure SQL Database introduced query processing improvements that adapt optimization strategies to your application workload’s run-time conditions.
These impr… Continue reading Introducing Batch Mode on Rowstore