Azure SQL Managed Instance Newsletter for March 2024

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

MI Curiosity

Did you hear the news of Next generation of Azure SQL MI General Purpose service tier ?

Azure SQL MI YouTube Channel

Subscribe to our new YouTube channel! We are releasing all sorts of videos here describing various features, functionality, tips, tricks and more at - Azure SQL !

Below are a listing of the March 2023 videos:

• Enable and disable Next-gen General Purpose Azure SQL Managed Instance service tier
• Next-gen General Purpose service tier brings 500 user databases, improved storage and more to Azure #SQLMI
• PASS Summit 2023: Demo Party Azure SQL Managed Instance in Action
• PASS Summit 2023: Exploring What's New in Azure SQL Managed Instance
• PASS Summit 2023: Modernize Apps with Azure SQL MI

Product Group Blogs

• Updates from 162.1 and 162.2 releases of SqlPackage and the DacFx ecosystem
• Azure SQL MI premium-series memory optimized hw is now available in all regions with up to 40 vCores
• Introducing database watcher for Azure SQL
• Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-gen GP
• Meet Microsoft SQL Product Leader - Sanjay Mishra

Azure SQL MI CSS Blogs

• Reading Azure SQL audit log from Azure Storage using sys.fn_get_audit_file returns empty result
• Lesson Learned #479:Loading Data from Parquet to Azure SQL Database using C# and SqlBulkCopy
• Lesson Learned #481: Query Performance Analysis Tips

Public Previews

• Use Next-gen General Purpose service tier
• Monitor Azure SQL workloads with database watcher
• Configure service endpoint policies
• Try for free
• What is an Azure SQL Managed Instance pool?
• Managed Instance link feature overview
• Microsoft Entra logins and users with nonunique display names
• Advance notifications
• Use SDK-style projects with the SQL Database Projects extension
• SQL Server Service Broker
• Disaster recovery with Managed Instance link
• Configure Advanced Threat Protection
• High availability with Zone Redundancy

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