Faster R&D pace complicates SQL Server upgrades for users
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Faster R&D pace complicates SQL Server upgrades for users

Microsoft is updating SQL Server and Azure SQL Database more quickly than it did in the past — and keeping up with the new releases can be a tough task for DBAs. sheikhSumon Dec 22, 2020·6 min read

SEATTLE — SQL Server 2019 will be the third version of Microsoft’s relational database software in four years, the product of an accelerated development pace that creates new challenges for users on SQL Server upgrades.

The faster R&D velocity also affects users of Azure SQL Database, SQL’s Server cloud cousin, and Microsoft’s other cloud-based data platforms. Those technologies and tools that support them are updated rapidly; for example, Microsoft releases monthly updates of its Azure management portal and Azure Data Studio, a database administration tool for both SQL Server and Azure databases.

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“It’s like drinking from the fire hose to keep up with all the changes,” Mark Freeman, a senior database administrator (DBA) at Azure SQL Database user BDO Global, said in an interview at PASS Summit 2018.

Brussels-based BDO runs hundreds of instances of the cloud database. Freeman, who works at the tax, audit and management consulting services company’s office in Columbus, Ohio, said the speed at which Microsoft is developing the Azure data services line “is just mind-blowing.” Overall, the fast pace is to the good, he added, but the vendor is moving so quickly that it can cause some issues for him.

“I like to say that they tend to move my cheese a lot,” Freeman said. “I go into the Azure portal and things that I’m used to using have moved or aren’t there anymore. And sometimes they pull the old thing before a new thing is ready — they get ahead of themselves a little bit.”