Microsoft has just made it easier to migrate your data to Azure SQL Database, but there is a security cost to using it, at least temporarily.
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Microsoft has introduced native support for vectors in .NET and JDBC drivers, enabling up to 50x read speed improvements and 3.3x for write operations.
Microsoft has launched a limited public preview of Copilot in Azure SQL Database. It's designed to assist with the use of Azure SQL Database-driven applications with natural language queries into SQL.
At its developer-focused Build 2022 conference today, Microsoft has announced a range of updates for its Azure services. The most interesting announcement deals with the Intelligent Data Platform.
Microsoft has just announced Azure confidential computing, a set of tools which brings data in use encyrption to the public cloud for the first time. You can sign up for early access now.
Microsoft's Azure SQL Database is getting an expanded range of performance tiers, upping the Standard tier maximum DTUs to 3000. Storage add-ons are also available for the different tiers.
Microsoft has detailed a couple of improvements to the way Azure SQL Database handles failovers in case of an outage. It works with individual databases, elastic pools, or a combination of both.