AZ491052 - Generally Available: Azure SQL updates for mid-May 2025

• Experience faster failovers with continuous priming and enhanced data ingestion with a 150 MiB/s log generation rate, now available in Azure SQL Database Hyperscale.

• Streamline your SQL workflows in Visual Studio Code with the enhanced UI in the MSSQL extension. Try the new Connection dialog, Object Explorer filtering, Table Designer, Query Results pane, and Query Plan Visualizer today.

• Try the native ANSI SQL-compatible JSON type that is optimized for efficient query processing and in-place modifications.

• Transform relational data into complex JSON documents using ANSI SQL-compatible JSON aggregates—JSON_OBJECTAGG and JSON_ARRAYAGG.

Learn more:

• Read "Azure SQL Database Hyperscale - Enhanced Performance Features Are Now Generally Available!"
• Read "MSSQL Extension for VS Code: New UI Goes GA and GitHub Copilot Enters Preview."
• Read "JSON data type."