Microsoft plans to release a 'General Purpose' version of its Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance (MI) at the 'general availability' (GA) commercial-release stage, 'starting July 30, 2021.' ...

There's also Arc-enabled SQL Server for centralized management of all your SQL Server databases. This also lets you gather best practices assessments across your entire SQL Server fleet, no matter ...

The ability to run Azure SQL Managed Instance -- a cloud version of SQL Server -- on non-Azure clouds, and even on-premises, will be generally available and production-ready on July 30th, 2021.

SQL Server’s data resiliency story gets a boost thanks to the new “link feature” in Azure SQL Managed Instance. According to Kumar’s post, the link feature includes a built-in Distributed Availability ...

Before you’ll be able to manage servers through Azure Arc, you’ll need to enable two existing Azure services that have been around for some time: Azure Automation and Azure Log Analytics.

The Azure Arc feature is enabled by default on your computer, so we can launch it and start working on it. Go ahead and follow the steps mentioned below to onboard Windows Server machines to Azure.

Branded as Azure Arc enabled data services, the service supports running Azure SQL Managed Instance and Azure PostgreSQL Hyperscale in on-premises data centers, multi-cloud and the edge.

An Azure Arc enabled SQL Managed Instance has near 100% compatibility with the latest SQL Server database engine. In addition, it allows existing SQL Server customers to lift and shift their ...

Beginning July 30, customers will gain access to the general-purpose tier of Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance, which Microsoft says will allow them to optimize database performance, deploy ...