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The azure sql database tag covers Microsoft’s cloud database service, with recent content focused on two practical areas. Security coverage includes CVE-2026-56162, an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability handled through a cloud-service advisory rather than a customer-installed Windows or SQL Server update, KB, or build remediation. Architecture coverage examines Azure SQL Database Hyperscale, including independently scalable compute and storage, high transaction-log throughput, rapid replica creation, snapshot-based recovery, and growth up to 128 TB. The articles also consider how Hyperscale can suit smaller databases, not only very large applications, and explain why its architectural and pricing characteristics may influence deployment decisions.
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    Azure SQL Database Retires SGX Enclaves in 2027: Migrate Always Encrypted Workloads to VBS

    Azure SQL Database customers who use Always Encrypted with Intel SGX enclaves have a firm deadline. Microsoft says support for Always Encrypted with Intel Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX) enclaves ends on October 31, 2027, and affected databases should be migrated before then. Doing nothing...
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    Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Serverless Auto-Pause Preview: Costs, Limits and Setup

    Azure SQL Database Hyperscale serverless can now pause itself when nobody is using it. Microsoft has put auto-pause and auto-resume for Hyperscale serverless into public preview. The feature lets idle databases stop running up compute charges and start again when activity returns. General...
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    Azure SQL Database Vector Search Goes GA: DiskANN Indexes, Syntax and Production Limits

    Microsoft has moved vector search and vector indexes in Azure SQL Database to general availability. The Azure Updates entry, titled "Generally Available: Vector search and vector indexes in Azure SQL," appeared on September 28, 2026 with Launched status. On Azure Updates, Launched means a...
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    Azure SQL Data Sync Retirement: What Ends Before 2027

    Azure SQL Data Sync now has a hard end date, and the first meaningful access restriction has already arrived for organizations that had not adopted it. The service is scheduled to retire on September 30, 2027. Since September 9, 2026, Azure subscriptions with no prior SQL Data Sync use have been...
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    CVE-2026-56162: Azure SQL Database Has No Customer Patch

    Microsoft has published CVE-2026-56162, an Azure SQL Database elevation of privilege vulnerability, on Thursday, August 6, 2026. The immediate operational point is unusually simple: this is a cloud-service advisory, not a Windows or SQL Server patch bulletin, so administrators should not expect...
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    Azure SQL Hyperscale: Faster Writes, Replicas and 128 TB Growth

    Azure SQL Database Hyperscale has spent years fighting an unfortunate implication embedded in its own name: that it belongs only beneath enormous, multi-terabyte applications. That perception is increasingly outdated. Hyperscale’s real differentiators are architectural rather than volumetric...
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