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Generally available updates for early March 2023
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early March 2023
Azure SQL—General availability updates for early March 2023
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early March 2023
Next-gen data engines transform metadata performance
The rapid growth of data-intensive use cases such as simulations, streaming applications (like IoT and sensor feeds),...
Disclosure: In-tree disk and file drivers will no longer be supported starting in Kubernetes v1.26
Migrate your existing in-tree disk and file volumes to CSI drivers using provided guidance.
Azure Virtual Network Manager Event Logging now in public preview
Interact with Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM) event logs for network group membership changes.
New Azure for Operators products and partner programs released
Azure for Operators announces the next wave of services to empower operators to modernize and monetize their 5G...
Public preview: Azure PostgreSQL migration extension for Azure Data Studio
Provide end-to-end assessment experience with right-sized target recommendations for Azure Database for PostgreSQL...
General availability: Power BI with Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server
Integrate Power BI with Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server directly from the Azure portal to quickly get...
Public preview: Login and TDE-enabled database migrations with Azure Database Migration Service
Provide a secure and improved user experience for migrating TDE databases and SQL/Windows logins to Azure SQL.
Generally available: 4 TiB, 8 TiB, and 16 TiB storage per node for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
Onboard even larger distributed Postgres workloads to Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL with fewer nodes using 4 TiB, 8...
Public preview: Confidential containers on ACI
ACI now lets you run containers in a trusted execution environment (TEE)
GA: Online live resize of persistent volumes
Scale up persistent volumes without taking the application offline.
Public preview: Pod sandboxing in AKS
AKS now allows you to isolate workloads at the kernel level.
EDB’s Postgres Distributed 5.0 boosts availability, performance
Database-as-a-service provider EnterpriseDB (EDB) has released the next generation of its popular distributed...
Mapping people and tags on Mastodon
In Mastodon relationship graphs I showed how to use Steampipe to map Mastodon network neighborhoods. When I use the...
Design effective AI prompts with Microsoft Prompt Engine
The launch of Microsoft’s new AI-powered Bing shone new light on the company’s investments in OpenAI’s large language...
Google makes AlloyDB for PostgreSQL available in 16 new regions
Google is expanding the availability of AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, a PostgreSQL-compatible, managed...
Public preview: Tiering capability for premium block blob storage
Tier data seamlessly within a premium blob account depending on access patterns to optimize costs.
Optimizing metadata performance for web-scale applications
Buried low in the software stack of most applications is a data engine, an embedded key-value store that sorts and...
Cloud-based quantum computing lets startups compete with Goliaths
Back in the days when I was working with “supercomputers,” it was clear to me that these beasts capable of producing...