Azure Synapse Analytics - Microsoft SQL Server Blog

Announcements March 18 11 min read

FabCon and SQLCon 2026: Unifying databases and Fabric on a single data platform

Welcome to the third annual FabCon and our first ever SQLCon here in Atlanta, Georgia.

Updates July 3, 2024 4 min read

In July 2024, SQL Server Stretch Database will be discontinued for SQL Server 2022, 2019, and 2017.

Announcements January 25, 2023 5 min read

A new release of Azure Data Studio to share—introducing 1.

Announcements November 16, 2022 7 min read

Announcing the general availability of SQL Server 2022, with continued innovation across performance, security, and availability.

Best Practices September 22, 2022 3 min read

Azure Synapse Link for SQL provides an automated way to extract data from source operational systems without having to build custom ETL processes.

Events November 19, 2020 1 min read

Data Platform Virtual Summit 2020 (DPS 2020) is just a couple of weeks away.

Updates November 7, 2019 2 min read

At Microsoft Ignite 2019, we announced Azure Synapse Analytics, a major evolution of Azure SQL Data Warehouse.

Updates March 4, 2019 2 min read

Companies today are faced with the trade-off of the security of having an on-premises solution and the convenience of moving their data to the cloud.

Announcements June 4, 2018 1 min read

Microsoft is pleased to announce that the Analytics Platform System (APS) appliance update 7 (AU7) is now generally available.

Best Practices May 14, 2018 1 min read

We have released our second major update for mssql-cli since our public preview announcement in December.

Events February 15, 2018 2 min read

UPDATE: SQL Operations Studio is now GA and renamed to Azure Data Studio.

Announcements January 17, 2018 2 min read

We are excited to announce the January release of SQL Operations Studio is now available.