Monthly Archive: October 2015

Azure service updates

• New maintenance control features September 23, 2020
  Increase control over maintenance operations and ensure higher availability for your business-critical applications with two new features now in preview. You can now schedule host maintenance operations in addition to the already available manual updates. Additionally, we are adding the ability for you to control when guest OS image updates on Virtual Machine Scale Sets […]
• Column-level encryption for Azure Synapse Analytics September 23, 2020
  Azure Synapse Analytics already provides a breadth of options that can be used to handle sensitive data in a secure manner—we are expanding that support with the introduction of Column Level Encryption (CLE).
• New MERGE command for Azure Synapse Analytics September 23, 2020
  Users can now synchronize two tables in a single step, streamlining the data processing using a single step statement while improving code readability and debugging.
• COPY command now generally available in Azure Synapse Analytics September 23, 2020
  The COPY command can now automatically parse your files to calculate file splits and can evenly distribute data chunks across the Synapse SQL compute nodes for parallel ingestion.
• Windows IoT Microsoft Edge Kiosk Mode in public preview September 23, 2020
  Microsoft Edge can now be run in Kiosk mode on Windows IoT