Six months ago today, Microsoft announced that SQL Server 2022 was ready.
Except it wasn’t.
And it still isn’t ready.
See, look at the very first hero in their list of 2022’s new features:
The very first one is “Business continuity through Azure – Bidirectional DR to Azure SQL.” However, buried way down in the footnotes, Microsoft admitted:
The bidirectional disaster recovery capability of the Link feature for Azure SQL Managed Instance is available in limited public preview. Sign up for early access. General availability will occur at a future date.
Well, it’s been 6 months now, and that feature is still