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." ...

How will SQL Database Edge connect back to Azure/on-premises? Azure SQL Database Edge has a streaming engine which is built on top of Azure Stream Analytics.

Ability to combine data streaming and time-series with in-database machine learning to enable low latency analytics Cloud connected and fully disconnected edge scenarios with local compute and storage ...

SQL Server 2022 customers will see benefits in the areas of data integration, analytics, governance, and high availability thanks to the database’s enhanced connectivity to the Azure cloud, Microsoft ...