Azure Database for PostgreSQL—Planned maintenance notifications now in previewAzure Database for MySQL—Planned maintenance notification now in previewAzure Database for MariaDB—Planned maintenance notifications now in previewData Factory adds Flatten transformation, single-row lookups, and updated UI for container activitiesNew features in Azure Cosmos DB Jupyter notebooks are now in previewUpdates to Azure HDInsightAzure IoT Python SDK v2—New …

Continue reading Azure Data Platform Weekly Updates – 8th March 2020

A secure foundation for IoT, Azure Sphere now generally availableAzure Security Center for IoT real-time operating system supportAzure Cognitive Services Computer Vision Read API v3.0 now in previewWe are retiring Azure Media Analytics preview processors on June 1, 2020Cognitive Services Bing Speech API is being retired November 1, 2021

Power BI—High contrast mode for embedded reports now availablePower BI—ArcGIS now supported for embedded analytics for your organizationPower BI has new, improved usage metrics reportPower BI Embedded filters API now supports single selection filterSupport for PostgreSQL to Azure Database for PostgreSQL—Hyperscale (Citus) is now availableAzure Backup offline-backup with Azure Data BoxDrill into the costs for …

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Azure Cognitive Services—New types added to Named Entity Recognition v3Azure Private Link is now generally availableNew Azure SQL Database automatic tuning default settings—March 2020Azure IoT C# and Java SDKs release new long-term support (LTS) branchesPower BI report authoring APIs now support a new aggregation function

New IoT Central Pricing PlansAzure Event Grid on Azure IoT Edge preview 2 is now availableSpring Data Azure Cosmos DB SDK 2.2.2 release is now generally availableAzure Stream Analytics—Machine learning–based anomaly detection functionsData Factory adds schema import, connection tests, and custom sink ordering to data flowsAzure Cognitive Services Text Analytics sentiment analysis v3 now supports …

Continue reading Azure Data Platform Weekly Updates – 9th Feb 2020

Azure Backup—Soft delete for SQL Server in Azure VM and SAP HANAAzure Data Factory is now available in South Africa NorthData Factory Adds Managed Identity Support to Data FlowsAzure Cognitive Services Translator Text—Five new languages added

Azure Active Directory support in Azure Database for MySQLAzure Databricks Is now HITRUST certified