Meet the Azure SQL Database team at Microsoft Ignite Conference
Azure SQL Database Engineering team (@azuresqldb) represented by Lindsey Allen, Joachim Hammer, Drazen Sumic, Ajay Jagannathan, Kevin Farlee, Xiaochen Wu, Jakub Szymaszek, Mladen Andzic, Srdan Bozovic, Dhruv Malik, Alain Dormehl will be in full f …
SQL Audit logs in Azure Log Analytics and Azure Event Hubs
We are pleased to announce that Azure SQL Database Audit logs can now be written directly to Azure Log Analytics or Azure Event Hubs. This ability, now available in public preview, provides SQL Database Auditing customers with an easy way to centrally …
What is built-in intelligence in Azure SQL Database?
Azure SQL Database is a fully managed latest stable version of SQL Server Database Engine hosted in Azure cloud that has several built-in features that protect and manage your data. These features may autonomously perform various maintenance tasks inst …
Released: Public Preview 2 for Version Agnostic SQL Server MP (2012-2017)
We are adding support in the existing version agnostic SQL Server MP (2017+) to monitor older versions of the server, specifically 2012 through 2016. SQL Server 2008 and R2 end of support is nearing (July 2019) so we will leave monitoring 200 …
AGLatency report tool introduction
I wrote an article to discuss about data movement latency between AG groups: Troubleshooting data movement latency between synchronous-commit AlwaysOn Availability Groups Now I develop a tool to analyze AG log block movement latency between replicas an …
SSMS 17.9 is now available
We are excited to announce the release of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 17.9! Download SSMS 17.9 and review the Release Notes to get started. SSMS 17.9 provides support for almost all feature areas on SQL Server 2008 through the latest SQL Server …
Working with Azure SQL Managed Instance using Azure CLI
Azure Command Line Interface (CLI) is a command line library that enables you to quickly and easily work with your Azure SQL Managed Instances. In this post, you will see some basic CLI commands that can be used with Managed Instance. You can run …
Sending emails in Azure SQL Managed Instance
Azure SQL Database Managed Instance enables you to use most of the SQL Server features in fully managed cloud environment. One of the features is database mail system that enables you to send emails directly from Managed Instance. In this post we will …
The August release of SQL Operations Studio is now available
We are excited to announce the August release of SQL Operations Studio is now available. Download SQL Operations Studio and review the Release Notes to get started. SQL Operations Studio is a data management tool that enables you to work with SQL Serve …
Cumulative Update #10 for SQL Server 2017 RTM
The 10th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2017 RTM is now available for download at the Microsoft Downloads site. Please note that registration is no longer required to download Cumulative updates. To learn more about the release or servicing m …
Cumulative Update #13 for SQL Server 2014 SP2
The 13th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2014 SP2 is now available for download at the Microsoft Downloads site. Please note that registration is no longer required to download Cumulative updates. To learn more about the release or servicing m …
Create linked server to readable secondary replica in Managed Instance Business Critical service tier
Azure SQL Database Managed Instance is a fully managed SQL Server Database Engine hosted in Azure cloud that provides most of the Azure SQL Pass and SQL Server functionalities, such as linked servers and built-in free secondary read-only replicas. In t …
Issue with security update for the Remote Code Execution vulnerability in SQL Server 2016 SP1 (GDR): August 14, 2018
On Tuesday August 14 we published a Security Update for six different releases of SQL Server 2016 and 2017. For one of those releases, SQL Server 2016 SP1 GDR (KB4293801), an issue may occur after applying the update where the sqlceip.exe process exper …
Resolved: Issue with security update for the Remote Code Execution vulnerability in SQL Server 2016 SP2 (CU): August 14, 2018
We have replaced KB4293807 with KB4458621 resolving the issue described below. Updated SQL Server 2016 SP2 CU packages are now available on the Microsoft Download Center and Microsoft Update as outlined in KB4458621. If you have previously installed KB …