Top 5 Updates Around SQL Azure for Seamless Migration

Azure SQL Database is seeing new features designed to facilitate management, affordable cloud migration, and enhanced security.  

Learn about the newest updates that can help your organization optimize performance, increase security, and facilitate migration. 

1. Copilot AI-Powered Database Management: Now with the integration of Copilot AI, users can operate their databases without worry. Through natural language to SQL integration, users can represent their data at other levels of complexity, making logic-based queries an everyday reality, ensuring productivity.
2. General Availability of Serverless Hyperscale: Now in general availability, the serverless sparked hyperscale Azure SQL Database offers a unique combination of the stringency of the serverless model and the elasticity of Hyperscale bringing automatic scaling based on usage, thus ensuring efficient pricing and performance without requiring a manual push.
3. Enhanced Security with Label-Based Access Control: Azure SQL Database has a higher priority when it comes to security. The new label-based access control that is synonymous with Microsoft Purview policies protects sensitive data by granting access to organizations according to their sensitivity, thus guiding businesses towards seamless compliance with regulations.
4. Simplified Schema Migrations: Azure Database Migration Service now enables seamless schema migrations to Azure SQL Database. In this update, the ability to migrate schemas and data without any other tools means less work and time will be wasted in migration.
5. Greater Performance with Next-Generation Hardware: The Azure SQL Database has now been able to support specialized hardware with server-grade SSL and hybrid status, fully leveraging Azure’s hyperscale architecture. This is set to deliver more performance and scaling roles that are most befitting for good work performance as well as ensuring performance consistency.

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