[In preview] Public Preview: Zone redundancy for Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-gen General Purpose

PreviewAug 17, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

You can now benefit from enhanced resilience with the public preview of zone redundancy for Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-gen General Purpose. This update helps you improve business continuity by automatically distributing your compute and data across a

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Date	Release	Type
Aug 19	[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Databricks Lakebase in four additional regions GA	GA
Aug 19	[Launched] Generally Available: Azure SQL updates for mid-August 2026 GA	GA
Aug 19	[In preview] Public Preview: SQL Formatter in MSSQL extension Preview	Preview
Aug 19	[Launched] Generally Available: Azure SQL Database provisioning in MSSQL extension GA	GA
Aug 14	Announcing: Azure Databricks Runtime 10.4 LTS will reach end of life on November 1, 2026 Deprecation	Deprecation
Aug 13	[Launched] Generally Available: Pre-upgrade validation checks for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server GA	GA
Aug 24	Announcing: Extended Support for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server Update	Update
Aug 5	[Launched] Generally Available: SharePoint Connector for Azure Databricks GA	GA

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Microsoft in August 2026

Date	Company	Release	Product	Type
Aug 17	Snowflake	AI mode for sensitive data classification (Public Preview) Snowflake Snowflake Horizon CatalogPreview	Snowflake Horizon Catalog	Preview
Aug 17	Snowflake	New SNOWFLAKE_COCO_USAGE_HISTORY view in Account Usage and Organization Usage (General availability) Snowflake SnowflakeGA	Snowflake	GA
Aug 17	Databricks	Upcoming deprecation of the data quality monitoring downstream_impact column Databricks Unity CatalogDeprecation	Unity Catalog	Deprecation
Aug 17	Databricks	Upcoming deprecation of the data quality monitoring root_cause_analysis column Databricks Unity CatalogDeprecation	Unity Catalog	Deprecation
Aug 17	Databricks	Session restore for serverless jobs is now in Beta Databricks LakeflowBeta	Lakeflow	Beta
Aug 17	Databricks	Identity attributes in ABAC column mask policies (Beta) Databricks Unity CatalogBeta	Unity Catalog	Beta