Want to run a fully managed SQL Server in Azure without paying a cent? The Azure SQL Managed Instance free offer gives you just that. With 720 vCore hours of compute, 64 GB of storage you can have up to 500 databases for free for 12 months. Strahinja will show how to create a free SQL Managed Instance from the Azure portal, walk through what the free offer actually covers, and connect to it so you can start testing real workloads today. ✅ Chapters: 0:40 What is the free offer for Azure SQL Managed Instance 1:19 Details of what exactly you get for free 2:00 How long you can run it and how start/stop works 3:38 Limitations in the offer 4:05 Free and generous but not recommended for production 5:15 What's not supported 5:35 Expiration and upgrade process 6:02 Demo - how to get started 7:30 Demo - once it is created 8:10 Demo - how to connect with public endpoint 9:00 Demo - how to do a native restore into Azure SQL Managed Instance 10:15 Demo - how the restore works 10:40 What prerequisites do you have to have to get a free Azure SQL Managed Instance 11:48 Demo - how to monitor your free credits 12:35 Demo - how to switch to the paid tier 13:40 Demo - tips and tricks for getting started ✅ Resources: Create Free Azure SQL Managed Instance: aka.ms/create-free-sqlmi-de Learn more: aka.ms/freesqlmi 📌 Let's connect: Strahinja Rodic - https://www.linkedin.com/in/strahinjarodic/, @Strale15 on X Twitter - Anna Hoffman, https://twitter.com/AnalyticAnna Twitter - AzureSQL, https://aka.ms/azuresqltw 🔴 Watch even more Data Exposed episodes: https://aka.ms/dataexposedyt 🔔 Subscribe to our channels for even more SQL tips: Microsoft Azure SQL: https://aka.ms/msazuresqlyt Microsoft SQL Server: https://aka.ms/mssqlserveryt Microsoft Developer: https://aka.ms/microsoftdeveloperyt #AzureSQL #SQL #LearnSQL

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Overview We have received several support cases where customers encounter the error shown below when attempting to create a failover group for Azure SQL...

AI Capabilities Built into Azure SQL Managed Instance Azure SQL MI includes multiple intelligence layers by default: Intelligent Insights for anomaly...

We’re happy to announce that the update policy SQL Server 2025 for Azure SQL Managed Instance is now generally available (GA). SQL Server...

Azure SQL Managed Instance just got a serious performance boost with Next‑gen GP. In this episode, Anna Hoffman and Uros Milanovic explain how you get lower latency, higher throughput and IOPS, more storage and databases per instance, plus new IOPS and memory sliders for fine‑grained control - all in the Next‑gen GP tier. ✅ Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 1:53 What's next-gen GP about 2:44 Classic GP vs Next-gen GP 3:50 HammerDB-TPROC-C test 8:56 Portal User Experience 10:26 Value for the users 11:15 Getting started ✅ Resources: https://aka.ms/mi-next-gen-gp-blog http://aka.ms/mi-next-gen-gp-docs https://aka.ms/freesqlMI https://aka.ms/arc-migrations-docs 📌 Let's connect: Twitter - Anna Hoffman, https://twitter.com/AnalyticAnna Twitter - AzureSQL, https://aka.ms/azuresqltw 🔴 Watch even more Data Exposed episodes: https://aka.ms/dataexposedyt 🔔 Subscribe to our channels for even more SQL tips: Microsoft Azure SQL: https://aka.ms/msazuresqlyt Microsoft SQL Server: https://aka.ms/mssqlserveryt Microsoft Developer: https://aka.ms/microsoftdeveloperyt #AzureSQL #SQL #LearnSQL

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If you’ve used Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose, you know the drill: to boost memory or I/O, you had to scale the whole instance, paying for extra CPU you might not need—and hoping the upgrade fixed the bottleneck. It worked but wasn’t elegant and could be slow or awkward. Scaling sometimes took hours when time was of the essence.

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Azure SQL Managed Instance improves and promotes "Redirect" to become the default connection type. Redirect now only requires port 1433 and can handle older...

This milestone of Mirroring for Azure SQL Managed Instance in Fabric marks a significant step forward in our mission to provide seamless, near real-time data replication and integration capabilities for...

Fabric Spark connector for SQL databases (Azure SQL databases, Azure SQL Managed Instances, Fabric SQL databases and SQL Server in Azure VM) in the Fabric Spark runtime is now available. This connector...

Learn how you can setup and configure SQL Server Alerts on Azure SQL Managed Instance with this step by step article.

Learn how you can setup and configure SQL Server Alerts on Azure SQL Managed Instance with this step by step article.

We’re excited to introduce the new update policy SQL Server 2025 for Azure SQL Managed Instance. Now in preview, SQL Server 2025 update policy brings you the...