SQL Server 2025 also comes with improved AI model management through model definitions built into T-SQL to AI services, including Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, Ollama, and more.

The updates span Microsoft Fabric, Azure Cosmos DB, SQL Server, Power BI, PostgreSQL and integrations with Databricks Inc.’s and SAP SE’s services on the Azure cloud.

Starting in July, Microsoft will begin gradually enforcing multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all users signing into Azure to administer resources.

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A Microsoft Azure DevOps outage in the South Brazil Region, which lasted over 10 hours, was caused thanks to a typo in the code that saw 17 production databases deleted.

The special Azure image for Windows Server gets new features regularly. Here are the latest improvements and what's coming in 2023. Image: issaronow/Adobe Stock.

Using a connection to Azure Arc, which is part of the SQL Server 2022 setup process, on-premises users can now also opt for cloud-enabled billing to manage consumption spikes or for ad hoc use cases.

If you rent SQL Server in Azure, the price of SQL Server stays the same. For Standard and Enterprise edition, respectively, the monthly price per core will remain at $73 and $274.