Microsoft plans to release a 'General Purpose' version of its Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance (MI) at the 'general availability' (GA) commercial-release stage, 'starting July 30, 2021.' ...

Pricing by Cores and Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server Microsoft is also offering a new pricing model for Azure SQL Managed Instances based on the number of virtual cores (vCores), giving you a lot ...

Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance is a part of the broader Azure Arc-enabled data services, including Azure Arc enabled Azure PostgreSQL Hyperscale - the hyper-scale form factor of the ...

Link feature for Azure SQL Managed Instance: To ensure uptime, SQL Server 2022 is fully integrated with the new link feature in Azure SQL Managed Instance. With this new capability, you benefit from a ...

The service is currently in preview for SQL Databases from version 2012 and up, SQL Managed Instance, and SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines.

Developers can now more easily manage Azure SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, and Azure SQL Managed Instance resources, which recently became generally available.

A new benefit for SQL Server 2022 includes the ability to use an Azure SQL Managed Instance for disaster recovery at the cost of compute and storage.

That connectivity is the driving force behind a host of new SQL Server capabilities in the 2022 release, including enhancements related to Azure Synapse Link, Microsoft Purview, and the new “link ...

Users also get the Query Store hints that database developers can already use to tell in Azure SQL DB and Managed SQL Instances to help speed up queries without rewriting them.

The ability to run Azure SQL Managed Instance -- a cloud version of SQL Server -- on non-Azure clouds, and even on-premises, will be generally available and production-ready on July 30th, 2021.