Azure SQL Database serverless compute auto-scaling limits increase more than twofold

The maximum vCore limit for Azure SQL Database serverless has increased over twofold to 40 vCores. The higher limits provide[…]

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Azure SQL Database—A performance optimization change to default settings is coming soon

The default maximum degree of parallelism (MAXDOP) option in Azure SQL Database is changing from 0 to 8, improving workload[…]

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Azure SQL Database—Auto-failover groups feature now available in all regions

The Auto-failover groups feature of Azure SQL Database is now available for managed instance deployments in all regions. Source: Microsoft[…]

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Azure SQL Database—Billing for managed instance backup storage is now in effect

Managed instance backup storage billing went into effect November 1, 2019. Backup storage is free of charge up to sizes[…]

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Azure SQL Database—Extensions for index resumable online operations

Now in general availability, a new configuration option, PAUSED_RESUMABLE_INDEX_ABORT_DURATION_MINUTES, has been added to ALTER DATABASE SCOPED CONFIGURATION (Transact-SQL) for resumable[…]

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Azure SQL Database—Subnet delegation enforcement for managed instances

Beginning May 1, 2020, you’ll be able to deploy managed instances only to subnets delegated to the Microsoft.SqlmanagedInstance resource provider. […]

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