As of July 9, 2024, SQL Server 2014 has reached its end of support. Many of our customers, including Scandinavian Airlines, have begun transitioning their SQL workloads to Microsoft Azure or are updating to SQL Server 2022.
SQL Server backup compression provides the compressed backup option for all streaming SQL Server backup types—full, differential, and transaction log.
We are excited to announce general availability of the link feature for Managed Instance for SQL Server 2022–the most Azure-enabled release of SQL Server yet.