Merge pull request #26951 from MicrosoftDocs/main

05/02 PM Publishing

Author: v-alje

azure-sql/database/active-geo-replication-overview.md

@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ To achieve full business continuity, adding database regional redundancy is only
   An application can access a geo-secondary replica to execute read-only queries using the same or different security principals used for accessing the primary database. For more information, see [Use read-only replicas to offload read-only query workloads](read-scale-out.md).
 
    > [!IMPORTANT]
-   > You can use geo-replication to create secondary replicas in the same region as the primary. You can use these secondaries to satisfy read scale-out scenarios in the same region. However, a secondary replica in the same region does not provide additional resilience to catastrophic failures or large scale outages, and therefore is not a suitable failover target for disaster recovery purposes. It also does not guarantee availability zone isolation. Use Business Critical or Premium service tiers [zone redundant configuration](high-availability-sla.md#premium-and-business-critical-service-tier-zone-redundant-availability) or General Purpose service tier [zone redundant configuration](high-availability-sla.md#general-purpose-service-tier-zone-redundant-availability) to achieve availability zone isolation.
+   > You can use geo-replication to create secondary replicas in the same region as the primary. You can use these secondaries to satisfy read scale-out scenarios in the same region. However, a secondary replica in the same region does not provide additional resilience to catastrophic failures or large scale outages, and therefore is not a suitable failover target for disaster recovery purposes. It also does not guarantee availability zone isolation. Use Business Critical or Premium service tiers [zone redundant configuration](high-availability-sla.md#zone-redundant-availability) or General Purpose service tier [zone redundant configuration](high-availability-sla.md#zone-redundant-availability) to achieve availability zone isolation.
    >
 
 - **Planned geo-failover**

azure-sql/database/business-continuity-high-availability-disaster-recover-hadr-overview.md

@@ -71,13 +71,13 @@ The following table lists the new generally available (GA) features of Azure SQL
 |[Automated key rotation for TDE with CMK](../database/transparent-data-encryption-byok-overview.md#rotation-of-tde-protector) | October 2022 | Automatically switch to a new key when using a customer-managed key (CMK) for TDE with Azure SQL Database. | 
 | [Database copy from Hyperscale replica](service-tier-hyperscale.md) | October 2022 | Use a Hyperscale geo-secondary replica as source for a database copy. | 
 | [Reverse migrate from Hyperscale](manage-hyperscale-database.md#reverse-migrate-from-hyperscale) | September 2022 | Reverse migration to the General Purpose service tier allows customers who have recently migrated an existing database in Azure SQL Database to the Hyperscale service tier to move back in an emergency, should Hyperscale not meet their needs. While reverse migration is initiated by a service tier change, it's essentially a size-of-data move between different architectures. |
-| [Zone redundant configuration for Hyperscale databases](high-availability-sla.md#hyperscale-service-tier-zone-redundant-availability) | August 2022 |The zone redundant configuration feature utilizes [Azure Availability Zones](/azure/availability-zones/az-overview#availability-zones) to replicate databases across multiple physical locations within an Azure region. By selecting [zone redundancy](high-availability-sla.md#hyperscale-service-tier-zone-redundant-availability), you can make your Hyperscale databases resilient to a much larger set of failures, including catastrophic datacenter outages, without any changes to the application logic.|
+| [Zone redundant configuration for Hyperscale databases](high-availability-sla.md#zone-redundant-availability) | August 2022 |The zone redundant configuration feature utilizes [Azure Availability Zones](/azure/availability-zones/az-overview#availability-zones) to replicate databases across multiple physical locations within an Azure region. By selecting [zone redundancy](high-availability-sla.md#zone-redundant-availability), you can make your Hyperscale databases resilient to a much larger set of failures, including catastrophic datacenter outages, without any changes to the application logic.|
 | [Query Store hints](/sql/relational-databases/performance/query-store-hints?view=azuresqldb-current&preserve-view=true) | August 2022 | Use query hints to optimize your query execution via the OPTION clause. |
 | [Named Replicas](service-tier-hyperscale-replicas.md#named-replica) for Hyperscale databases | June 2022 | Named Replicas enable a broad variety of read scale-out scenarios, and easily implement near-real time hybrid transactional and analytical processing (HTAP) solutions. |
 | [Active geo-replication](./active-geo-replication-overview.md) and [Auto-failover groups](./auto-failover-group-sql-db.md) for Hyperscale databases | June 2022 | Active geo-replication and Auto-failover groups provide a turn-key business continuity solution for Hyperscale databases, letting you perform quick disaster recovery of databases in case of a regional disaster or a large scale outage.|
 | [Ledger](/sql/relational-databases/security/ledger/ledger-overview) | May 2022 | The ledger feature in Azure SQL Database allows you to cryptographically attest to other parties, such as auditors or other business parties, that your data hasn't been tampered with. |
 | [Change data capture](/sql/relational-databases/track-changes/about-change-data-capture-sql-server) | April 2022 | Change data capture (CDC) lets you track all the changes that occur on a database. Though this feature has been available for SQL Server for quite some time, using it with Azure SQL Database is now generally available. |
-| [Zone redundant configuration for General Purpose tier](high-availability-sla.md#general-purpose-service-tier-zone-redundant-availability) | April 2022 | The zone redundant configuration feature utilizes [Azure Availability Zones](/azure/availability-zones/az-overview#availability-zones) to replicate databases across multiple physical locations within an Azure region. By selecting [zone redundancy](high-availability-sla.md#general-purpose-service-tier-zone-redundant-availability), you can make your provisioned and serverless General Purpose databases and elastic pools resilient to a much larger set of failures, including catastrophic datacenter outages, without any changes to the application logic.|
+| [Zone redundant configuration for General Purpose tier](high-availability-sla.md#zone-redundant-availability) | April 2022 | The zone redundant configuration feature utilizes [Azure Availability Zones](/azure/availability-zones/az-overview#availability-zones) to replicate databases across multiple physical locations within an Azure region. By selecting [zone redundancy](high-availability-sla.md#zone-redundant-availability), you can make your provisioned and serverless General Purpose databases and elastic pools resilient to a much larger set of failures, including catastrophic datacenter outages, without any changes to the application logic.|
 | [Maintenance window](../database/maintenance-window.md)| March 2022 | The maintenance window feature allows you to configure maintenance schedule for your Azure SQL Database. [Maintenance window advance notifications](../database/advance-notifications.md), however, are in preview.|
 | [Storage redundancy for Hyperscale databases](hyperscale-automated-backups-overview.md#data-and-backup-storage-redundancy) | March 2022 |  When creating a Hyperscale database, you can choose your preferred storage type: read-access geo-redundant storage (RA-GRS), zone-redundant storage (ZRS), or locally redundant storage (LRS) Azure standard storage. The selected storage redundancy option will be used for the lifetime of the database for both data storage redundancy and backup storage redundancy. |
 | [Azure Active Directory-only authentication](authentication-azure-ad-only-authentication.md) | November 2021 | It's possible to configure your Azure SQL Database to allow authentication only from Azure Active Directory. | 
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ Learn about significant changes to the Azure SQL Database documentation. For pre
 | **Hyperscale RA-GZRS preview** | It's now possible to choose read access geo-zone-redundancy (RA-GZRS) as a backup storage redundancy for Hyperscale databases. This feature is currently in preview. To learn more, review [Hyperscale backup storage redundancy](hyperscale-automated-backups-overview.md#data-and-backup-storage-redundancy). |
 | **Hyperscale reverse migrate GA** |  This feature allows customers who have recently migrated an existing database in Azure SQL Database to the Hyperscale service tier to move back in an emergency, should Hyperscale not meet their needs. While reverse migration is initiated by a service tier change, it's essentially a size-of-data move between different architectures. This feature is now generally available. To learn more, review [Reverse migration to the General Purpose service tier](manage-hyperscale-database.md#reverse-migrate-from-hyperscale).|
 | **UMI support for auditing preview** | It's now possible to configure the storage account used for SQL auditing logs by using User Managed Identity (UMI). This feature is currently in preview. Review [auditing](auditing-overview.md) to learn more. |
-| **Zone redundant configuration for Hyperscale databases GA** | The zone redundant configuration feature utilizes [Azure Availability Zones](/azure/availability-zones/az-overview#availability-zones) to replicate databases across multiple physical locations within an Azure region. By selecting [zone redundancy](high-availability-sla.md#hyperscale-service-tier-zone-redundant-availability), you can make your Hyperscale databases resilient to a much larger set of failures, including catastrophic datacenter outages, without any changes to the application logic. This configuration option is now generally available. To learn more, review  [Zone redundant configuration for Hyperscale databases](high-availability-sla.md#hyperscale-service-tier-zone-redundant-availability). |
+| **Zone redundant configuration for Hyperscale databases GA** | The zone redundant configuration feature utilizes [Azure Availability Zones](/azure/availability-zones/az-overview#availability-zones) to replicate databases across multiple physical locations within an Azure region. By selecting [zone redundancy](high-availability-sla.md#zone-redundant-availability), you can make your Hyperscale databases resilient to a much larger set of failures, including catastrophic datacenter outages, without any changes to the application logic. This configuration option is now generally available. To learn more, review  [Zone redundant configuration for Hyperscale databases](high-availability-sla.md#zone-redundant-availability). |
 | **Query Store hints GA** | You can use query hints to optimize your query execution via the OPTION clause. This feature is now generally available for Azure SQL Database. To learn more, review [Query Store hints](/sql/relational-databases/performance/query-store-hints?view=azuresqldb-current&preserve-view=true). |
 | **Named Replicas for Hyperscale databases GA** | Named Replicas enable a broad variety of read scale-out scenarios, and easily implement near-real time hybrid transactional and analytical processing (HTAP) solutions. This feature is now generally available. See [named replicas](service-tier-hyperscale-replicas.md#named-replica) to learn more. |
 | **Active geo-replication and Auto-failover groups for Hyperscale databases GA** | [Active geo-replication](./active-geo-replication-overview.md) and [Auto-failover groups](./auto-failover-group-sql-db.md) are now generally available for Hyperscale databases,  providing a turn-key business continuity solution, letting you perform quick disaster recovery of databases in case of a regional disaster or a large scale outage. |
@@ -146,10 +146,10 @@ Learn about significant changes to the Azure SQL Database documentation. For pre
 | **SQL Database emulator** | The Azure SQL Database emulator provides the ability to locally validate database and query design together with client application code in a simple and frictionless model as part of the application development process. The SQL Database emulator is currently in preview. Review [SQL Database emulator](local-dev-experience-sql-database-emulator.md) to learn more.  |
 | **SDK-style SQL projects**| Use [Microsoft.Build.Sql](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Build.Sql) for SDK-style SQL projects in the SQL Database Projects extension in Azure Data Studio or Visual Studio Code. This feature is currently in preview. To learn more, see [SDK-style SQL projects](/sql/azure-data-studio/extensions/sql-database-project-extension-sdk-style-projects). |
 | **Azure Synapse Link for SQL for Azure SQL Database** | Azure Synapse Link for SQL enables near real-time analytics over operational data in SQL Server 2022 and Azure SQL Database. With a seamless integration between operational stores and Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pools, Azure Synapse Link for SQL enables you to run analytics, business intelligence and machine learning scenarios on your operational data with minimum impact on source databases with a new change feed technology. For more information, see [What is Azure Synapse Link for SQL? (Preview)](/azure/synapse-analytics/synapse-link/sql-synapse-link-overview).|
-| **General Purpose tier Zone redundancy GA** | Enabling zone redundancy for your provisioned and serverless General Purpose databases and elastic pools is now generally available in select regions. To learn more, including region availability see [General Purpose zone redundancy](high-availability-sla.md#general-purpose-service-tier-zone-redundant-availability). |
+| **General Purpose tier Zone redundancy GA** | Enabling zone redundancy for your provisioned and serverless General Purpose databases and elastic pools is now generally available in select regions. To learn more, including region availability see [General Purpose zone redundancy](high-availability-sla.md#zone-redundant-availability). |
 | **Change data capture GA** | Change data capture (CDC) lets you track all the changes that occur on a database. Though this feature has been available for SQL Server for quite some time, using it with Azure SQL Database is now generally available. To learn more, see [Change data capture](/sql/relational-databases/track-changes/about-change-data-capture-sql-server).  |
 | **GA for maintenance window** | The [maintenance window](maintenance-window.md) feature allows you to configure a maintenance schedule for your Azure SQL Database and receive advance notifications of maintenance windows. [Maintenance window advance notifications](../database/advance-notifications.md) are in public preview for databases configured to use a non-default [maintenance window](maintenance-window.md).|
-| **Hyperscale zone redundant configuration preview** | It's now possible to create new Hyperscale databases with zone redundancy to make your databases resilient to a much larger set of failures. This feature is currently in preview for the Hyperscale service tier. To learn more, see [Hyperscale zone redundancy](high-availability-sla.md#hyperscale-service-tier-zone-redundant-availability). |
+| **Hyperscale zone redundant configuration preview** | It's now possible to create new Hyperscale databases with zone redundancy to make your databases resilient to a much larger set of failures. This feature is currently in preview for the Hyperscale service tier. To learn more, see [Hyperscale zone redundancy](high-availability-sla.md#zone-redundant-availability). |
 | **Hyperscale storage redundancy GA** | Choosing your storage redundancy for your databases in the Hyperscale service tier is now generally available. See [Configure backup storage redundancy](hyperscale-automated-backups-overview.md#data-and-backup-storage-redundancy) to learn more. |
 | [Elastic transactions](elastic-transactions-overview.md) | Elastic transactions allow you to execute distributed transactions among cloud databases in Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance. Elastic transactions are now generally available. |
 | **Hyperscale reverse migration** | Reverse migration is now in preview. Reverse migration to the General Purpose service tier allows customers who have recently migrated an existing database in Azure SQL Database to the Hyperscale service tier to move back in an emergency, should Hyperscale not meet their needs. While reverse migration is initiated by a service tier change, it's essentially a size-of-data move between different architectures. Learn about [reverse migration from Hyperscale](manage-hyperscale-database.md#reverse-migrate-from-hyperscale). Update: This feature is now generally available as of September 2022.|

azure-sql/database/doc-changes-updates-release-notes-whats-new.md

@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ The following table compares the maximum resource limits available for Azure SQL
 | **Storage size** | 1 GB - 100 TB | 16 TB | 
 | **Tempdb size** | [32 GB per vCore](resource-limits-vcore-single-databases.md), up to 2,560 GB |Up to 4 TB - [limited by reserved storage size](../managed-instance/resource-limits.md#service-tier-characteristics) |
 | **Log write throughput** | Up to 100mb/sec | [4 MB/s per vCore (max 48 MB/s)](../managed-instance/resource-limits.md#service-tier-characteristics) |
-| **Availability** | [Default SLA](https://azure.microsoft.com/support/legal/sla/azure-sql-database/) <br> 99.995% SLA with [zone redundancy](high-availability-sla.md#premium-and-business-critical-service-tier-zone-redundant-availability) | [Default SLA](https://azure.microsoft.com/support/legal/sla/azure-sql-sql-managed-instance/)|
+| **Availability** | [Default SLA](https://azure.microsoft.com/support/legal/sla/azure-sql-database/) <br> 99.995% SLA with [zone redundancy](high-availability-sla.md#zone-redundant-availability) | [Default SLA](https://azure.microsoft.com/support/legal/sla/azure-sql-sql-managed-instance/)|
 | **Backups** | A choice of locally-redundant (LRS), zone-redundant (ZRS), or geo-redundant (GRS) storage <br/> 1-35 days (7 days by default) retention, with up to 10 years of long-term retention available |A choice of locally-redundant (LRS), zone-redundant (ZRS), geo-redundant (GRS) or geo-zone-redundant (GZRS) storage <br/> 1-35 days (7 days by default) retention, with up to 10 years of long-term retention available| 
 | [**Read-only replicas**](read-scale-out.md) |Read scale with 1-4 high availability replicas or 1-30 [named replicas](service-tier-hyperscale-replicas.md#named-replica)  <br> 0 - 4 [geo-replicas](active-geo-replication-overview.md) |1 built-in high availability replica is readable <br> 0 - 1 geo-replicas using [auto-failover groups](../managed-instance/auto-failover-group-sql-mi.md)  | 
 | **Discount models** |[Reserved instances](reserved-capacity-overview.md)<br/>[Azure Hybrid Benefit](../azure-hybrid-benefit.md) (not available on dev/test subscriptions)<br/>[Enterprise](https://azure.microsoft.com/offers/ms-azr-0148p/) and [Pay-As-You-Go](https://azure.microsoft.com/offers/ms-azr-0023p/) Dev/Test subscriptions|[Reserved instances](reserved-capacity-overview.md)<br/>[Azure Hybrid Benefit](../azure-hybrid-benefit.md) (not available on dev/test subscriptions)<br/>[Enterprise](https://azure.microsoft.com/offers/ms-azr-0148p/) and [Pay-As-You-Go](https://azure.microsoft.com/offers/ms-azr-0023p/) Dev/Test subscriptions |