microsoft data platform news

17 Feb 2023

Always Encrypted with VBS enclaves in Azure SQL Database now in public preview

We are delighted to announce that Always Encrypted with secure enclaves in all Azure SQL Database offerings with virtualization-based security (VBS) is now in public preview.

17 Feb 2023

SQL2022 Cumulative Update #1 Released

It is our pleasure to announce the release of SQL2022 Cumulative Update #1 on behalf of the team. SQL2022 Cumulative Update #1 addresses 198 issues

17 Feb 2023

SQL Server 2017 RTM+GDR (Feb2023) Released

Announcing the release of SQL Server 2017 RTM+GDR (Feb2023). This SQL Server servicing release addresses 4 issues.

17 Feb 2023

SQL Server 2017 Cumulative Update #31+GDR (Feb2023) Released

Announcing the release of SQL Server 2017 Cumulative Update #31+GDR (Feb2023). This SQL Server servicing release addresses 4 issues.

17 Feb 2023

SQL Server 2019 Cumulative Update #18+GDR (Feb2023) Released

Announcing the release of SQL Server 2019 Cumulative Update #18+GDR (Feb2023) . This SQL Server servicing release addresses 5 issues

14 Feb 2023

SQL Server 2022 RTM+GDR (Feb2023) Released

Announcing the release of SQL Server 2022 RTM+GDR (Feb2023). This SQL Server servicing release addresses 11 issues.

08 Feb 2023

Download for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 19.0.1

SSMS 19.0.1 is the latest general availability (GA) version. If you have a preview version of SSMS 19 installed, you should uninstall it before installing SSMS 19.0.1. If you have SSMS 19.0 installed, installing SSMS 19.0.1 upgrades it to 19.0.1.

04 Feb 2023

Announcing the Public Preview of a new top level CDC resource in ADF

One of the most difficult aspects to building enterprise-ready data integration pipelines is capturing just the latest changed data from disparate sources quickly. Change Data Capture (CDC) is a set of technologies and techniques that enables data engineers to discover changed records as they occur at the source. Azure Data Factory (ADF) has recently added many new CDC-enabled connectors to process change data from SQL, Storage, Cosmos DB, and many other sources. Much of the feedback that we received from our users about this has been centered around making it easy to configure and to continuously detect changes at the source.

04 Feb 2023

Introducing Managed Airflow in Azure Data Factory

Today, we are excited to announce the capability to run Apache Airflow DAGs (Directed Acyclic Graph) within Azure Data Factory, adding a key Open-Source integration that provides extensibility for orchestrating python-based workflows at scale on Azure.

02 Feb 2023

Optimized locking

This article introduces the optimized locking feature, a new SQL Server Database Engine capability that offers an improved transaction locking mechanism that reduces lock memory consumption and blocking amongst concurrent transactions.

27 Jan 2023

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 19.0 Released!

The long-awaited release of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 19.0 is finally here!