SQL Server 2022 introduces new Azure-connected features that offer unique benefits, but they also bring additional costs, trade-offs, dependencies, and risks.

SQL Server 2022 introduces new Azure-connected features, but also important incremental updates to core performance, availability, and security features.

Microsoft’s Intelligent Data Platform is a marketing effort to promote new Azure database and analytic features and the upcoming SQL Server 2022 version.

Illustration shows screenshots of Azure Purview, an Azure service providing data governance capabilities.

Azure Purview supports a broad range of data governance functions and can improve data management.

Azure Purview, in public preview, is a centralized, hosted registry of enterprise data sources that provides database scanning, classification, and data lineage across on-premises and hosted databases to help data governance and compliance.