Updated: July 16, 2020 (January 29, 2018)

Azure SQL Database Addresses Critical Applications

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Updates to Azure SQL Database in 2017 delivered durability and security improvements to support critical, regulated applications.
Distributed database applications receive data synchronization features that support hybrid deployments.
SQL Server features continue to arrive, although the trend shows the service will always lag its on-premises parent product.
The roadmap includes a deployment model that mimics on-premises that will simplify migrating workloads and help regulated industries.

Azure SQL Database is a Microsoft-hosted, multitenant relational database service based on SQL Server. Updates throughout 2017 delivered high-availability and security features that support critical applications, and the service continues to receive features from its parent product, although usually three months to a year after the features arrive on-premises.

Service Overview

Azure SQL Database is based on SQL Server 2017 and offers many of the most common database management features and APIs used in the on-premises product. (For more details, see the sidebar “Azure SQL Database Overview“.)

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