Azure SQL Managed Instance documentation

Find documentation about Azure SQL Managed Instance, a managed instance in Azure based on the latest stable version of Microsoft SQL Server.

Azure SQL Managed Instance

What's new

• What's new?

Quickstart

• Create SQL Managed Instance

video

• Azure SQL Managed Instance overview

Concept

• What is SQL Managed Instance?
• vCore purchasing model
• Transactional replication
• Migrate from SQL Server
• T-SQL differences with SQL Server

Advanced security

Concept

• Security capabilities
• Security best practices
• Logins, user accounts, roles, and permissions
• Azure Active Directory
• Auditing
• Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)
• Dynamic Data Masking
• Public endpoints

Learn Azure SQL

Learn

• Azure SQL for beginners
• Azure SQL fundamentals
• Azure SQL hands-on labs
• Azure SQL bootcamp
• Educational SQL resources

Reference

Deploy

• Azure CLI samples
• PowerShell samples
• ARM template samples

Download

• SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
• Azure Data Studio
• SQL Server Data Tools
• Visual Studio 2019

Reference

• Migration guide
• Transact-SQL (T-SQL)
• Azure CLI
• PowerShell
• REST API

Business continuity

How-To Guide

• Business continuity
• High availability
• Auto-failover groups
• Automated backups
• Recover with backup
• Long-term backup retention

Instance pools

Concept

• What is an instance pool?
• Configure

Planned maintenance

Concept

• Plan for Azure maintenance events
• Maintenance window
• Resource health

How-To Guide

• Maintenance window
• Maintenance Window Notifications