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SQL Database videos

Azure SQL Database - create DBs in seconds

04-23-2015 01 min, 36 sec

Azure SQL Database - create DBs in seconds

Azure SQL Database - protecting important DBs from regional disasters is easy

04-23-2015 01 min, 02 sec

Azure SQL Database - protecting important DBs from regional disasters is easy

Azure SQL Database dynamically scale-up or scale-down

04-23-2015 01 min, 24 sec

Azure SQL Database dynamically scale-up or scale-down

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Recent SQL Database Updates

General availability: Temporal tables in Azure SQL Database

October 12, 2016 - You can use temporal tables to track the full history of data changes directly in Azure SQL Database, without the need for custom coding.

Improved automatic tuning boosts Azure SQL Database performance

September 29, 2016 - Now customers can run their production workload in SQL Database for a day, and Advisor will provide relevant tuning recommendations to improve performance.

Major update to SQL Database Advisor makes database performance tuning much faster

September 6, 2016 - SQL Database Advisor is now significantly faster when tuning your database performance, requiring only a day of activity before producing the tuning recommendations.

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