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.' ...

Alinta Energy has gradually replaced most of the Azure-based services that once powered its data architecture with Databricks, an effort it says has substantially cut its running costs.

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