Announcements July 17, 2025 3 min read Accelerate SQL Server Migration to Azure with Azure Arc We’re excited to announce a new migration experience in Azure Arc to simplify and accelerate SQL Server migration.
Best Practices November 6, 2024 3 min read Save money on Microsoft SQL Server licensing with Microsoft Azure Arc We’re simplifying deployment and cost management by using modern pay-as-you-go subscription for SQL Server software running on any cloud provider.
Best Practices August 14, 2024 4 min read Modernize Microsoft SQL Server 2014 workloads with Azure As of July 9, 2024, SQL Server 2014 has reached its end of support.
Updates July 3, 2024 4 min read Announcing the retirement of SQL Server Stretch Database In July 2024, SQL Server Stretch Database will be discontinued for SQL Server 2022, 2019, and 2017.
Announcements March 25, 2024 4 min read Update on the support of DBCC CLONEDATABASE for production use Effective March 1, 2025, Microsoft will discontinue support for the use of the DBCC CLONEDATABASE command in production deployments.
Announcements November 15, 2023 3 min read Power what’s next with limitless relational databases from Azure We were excited to get back in front of customers at Microsoft Ignite 2023 and PASS Data Community Summit.
Announcements September 28, 2023 4 min read Protect SQL Server 2014 workloads with Azure flexibility Customers have multiple options for the SQL Server in their data estate that is nearing the end of support.
Best Practices June 14, 2023 5 min read Secure your AI using SQL Server Machine Learning with Microsoft Azure OpenAI Services Using SQL Server Machine Learning Services with Azure OpenAI helps businesses save money and securely leverage the products they already have.
Updates March 28, 2023 4 min read Accelerated Database Recovery enhancements in SQL Server 2022 We are excited to share that there are several Accelerated Database Recovery enhancements in SQL Server 2022.
Updates March 9, 2023 11 min read SQL Server 2022: Intel® QuickAssist Technology overview SQL Server backup compression provides the compressed backup option for all streaming SQL Server backup types—full, differential, and transaction log.
Updates February 15, 2023 3 min read Easily migrate SQL Server applications to the cloud with Azure Microsoft Azure knows SQL Server best and will support your cloud migration at no cost for qualifying scenarios.
Best Practices January 12, 2023 5 min read Working with time series data in SQL Server 2022 and Azure SQL Time series capabilities in SQL Server were introduced in Azure SQL Edge, Microsoft’s version of SQL Server for the Internet of Things.