In November 2025, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL:
Apply the reservation discount for a 1-year or 3-year reservation of a zone-redundant Azure SQL Managed Instance in the General Purpose tier to both the standard compute and the zone-redundancy add-on. Learn more.
Optimize performance and costs by adding extra memory to Azure SQL Managed Instance. Learn more.
New improvements in optimized locking further reduce the overhead of locks in the SQL database engine. Learn more.
Boost your SQL queries with powerful Regex support for advanced pattern matching. Learn more.
Bigint support in DATEADD for extended range calculations. Learn more.