Microsoft plans to release a "General Purpose" version of its Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance (MI) at the "general availability" (GA) commercial-release stage, "starting July 30, 2021." ...

The ability to run Azure SQL Managed Instance -- a cloud version of SQL Server -- on non-Azure clouds, and even on-premises, will be generally available and production-ready on July 30th, 2021.

Azure SQL Managed Instance: Primarily used for disaster recovery and replicated data failover. Azure Synapse Analytics: For monitoring and managing data changes.

SQL Server’s data resiliency story gets a boost thanks to the new “link feature” in Azure SQL Managed Instance. According to Kumar’s post, the link feature includes a built-in Distributed Availability ...

So while SQL Server 2022 enables migrating workloads to Azure SQL Managed Instance with virtually no downtime using distributed availability groups, users can also restore databases back to SQL ...

While there are a lot of benefits to running SQL Server in a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) model with Azure SQL Database or Azure SQL Managed Instance, a sizable percentage of my customers still ...