In a recently commissioned study 3 conducted by IDC, migrating to Azure SQL Managed Instance delivered a 45% increase of productivity for database administrators and 27% increase in productivity ...

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.' ...

For example, Azure SQL Database managed instance provides what Microsoft calls "evergreen SQL" -- in other words, an instance of the technology that is continuously updated and upgraded, and that ...

Using a connection to Azure Arc, which is part of the SQL Server 2022 setup process, on-premises users can now also opt for cloud-enabled billing to manage consumption spikes or for ad hoc use cases.