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General Availability – Continuous Backup with Point in Time Restore in Azure Cosmos DB

7th September 2021
Leah Monterroso
Azure, Data, Feature Announcements, News

Azure Cosmos DB's point-in-time restore can be used to restore a deleted account, restore into any region that has a backup, recover from an unplanned write or delete operation within a container, restore a database or restore a container.

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Always Encrypted with Secure Enclaves for Azure SQL Database – Now Generally Available

18th August 2021
Leah Monterroso
Azure, Data, Feature Announcements, News, Security

Now released to general availability – always encrypted with secure enclaves increases confidential computing of Azure SQL. It helps to prevent sensitive data from being removed by rogue administrators, DBAs or cloud operators.

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Azure SQL Database Serverless

12th August 2021
Arun Sirpal
Azure, Blog, Data, How-To, Software Development

Azure SQL Database Serverless is a compute tier that is fundamentally different to the classic provisioned tiers that we are used to within Azure SQL Database. This is best used for those databases that are ever-changing with unpredictable patterns.

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Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse

8th June 2021
Leah Monterroso
Azure Modern Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence, Data, Feature Announcements, News, Power Platform

Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse removes the obstacle between analytics and business applications. This new link allows the data flowing from your business applications to flow to Azure Synapse simultaneous to the Dataverse.

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Azure Cosmos DB Updates – May Highlights

8th June 2021
Leah Monterroso
Azure, Data, Feature Announcements, News, Software Development

Azure Cosmos DB saw an abundance of announcements at Microsoft Build, so here is a quick run through of our highlights along with links for further reading.

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Azure SQL Database Ledger

8th June 2021
Leah Monterroso
Azure, Data, Feature Announcements, News, Security, SQL Server

We are excited to hear about the release of Azure SQL Database Ledger as an alternate to blockchain. For enterprises with centralised systems who want the capability of proving data integrity, this should be a game-changer.

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Databricks and the Microsoft Modern Data Warehouse Enable Data Scientists

31st May 2021
Jennifer Stirrup
Azure Modern Data Warehouse, Blog, Business Intelligence, Data

A look at how Databricks and the Azure Modern Data Warehouse enable data scientists, from the ease of getting started, security, scalability, easy integration and its enterprise-ready state.

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Migrating SQL to Azure

10th May 2021
Geoff Ballard
Application Modernisation, Azure, Blog, Cloud Migration, Data, Security, SQL Server

Migrating SQL to Azure is an important part of the migration process providing security and cost benefits whether you choose a hybrid option or go all in.

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Moving from Business Intelligence to Predictive Analytics

20th April 2021
Jennifer Stirrup
Azure Modern Data Warehouse, Blog, Business Intelligence, Data

In this blog, we look at moving from static business intelligence to predictive analytics and how to choose the best technology for it.

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Azure Defender for Storage – Improved Threat Detections

8th April 2021
Leah Monterroso
Azure, Data, Feature Announcements, News, Security

Azure Defender for Storage can detect potential threats on your blob containers, file shares and data lakes and in March, received some new capabilities.

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