Microsoft has detailed a couple of improvements to the way Azure SQL Database handles failovers in case of an outage. It works with individual databases, elastic pools, or a combination of both.

For the latter, Microsoft during its Ignite 2024 event today announced the preview of SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric, which is designed to provide a high-performance, scalable, and secure database ...

Microsoft introduced transparent data encryption (TDE) when it released SQL Server 2008, adding full database encryption rather than the limited cell-based encryption that debuted in SQL Server 2005.