Azure SQL Managed Instance Newsletter for February 2024

Editor’s Note

Welcome to the Azure SQL Managed Instance Newsletter. In this edition we are looking over February 2024, sharing some of the latest service updates & materials that can be helpful in your work with Azure SQL Managed Instance.

Azure SQL MI YouTube Channel

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Azure SQL MI Curiosity

• Did you know that you can configure advanced notifications for maintenance events?

Azure SQL MI PG Blogs

• More vCore options for SQL MI Business Critical for better price/performance and flexibility
• Invoking REST APIs with SQLCLR and Newtonsoft's Json.NET
• Get ready for take off with Microsoft at SQLBits 2024
• 16 TB of storage is now available for Premium-series in SQL Managed Instance Business Critical

Azure SQL MI CSS Blogs

• How to Change Collation of an Azure SQL Managed Instance When There Are Dependency Errors
• Migrating an Azure SQL DB to a SQL MI by utilizing SqlPackage/ADF
• How to create linked servers from SQL managed instance using Entra Authentication (part 1)
• Lesson Learned #477:NEXT VALUE FOR function cannot be used if ROWCOUNT option has been set
• Lesson Learned #478: Identifying TLS Version Using Azure SQL Auditing

Public Previews

• What is an Azure SQL Managed Instance pool?
• Configure service endpoint policies
• Try Azure SQL Managed Instance for free
• Advance notifications
• Use SDK-style projects with the SQL Database Projects extension
• SQL Server Service Broker
• Disaster recovery with Managed Instance link - Azure SQL Managed Instance
• Configure Advanced Threat Protection

Essential Links

• What is Azure SQL Managed Instance – a great page for the introduction of our service
• SQL MI FAQ – discover frequently asked questions about Azure SQL Managed Instance
• What’s new in SQL MI – the list of the latest and the greatest additions to Azure SQL MI
• Customer stories - empower you to learn how other customers utilize Azure SQL Managed Instance to improve their business
• Deep Dive: Modernize your Apps in the Cloud with Azure SQL Managed Instance
• The SQLMI How-To-Series blog on simple & extremely useful how-to
• Github -? Listing for what is new