DBCC CLONEDATABASE command generates a schema-only copy of a database. Effective March 1, 2025, Microsoft will discontinue support for the use of the DBCC CLONEDATABASE command in production deployments.
From SQL Server, Azure SQL, to our powerful solutions like Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Copilot, these product enhancements are designed to help make application migration, modernization, and development easier so you can power what’s next.
This blog provides details to help support customers in modernizing to new solutions well in advance of this change. The following components for which support will be discontinued.
Whether you build applications for SQL Server on-premises or in Azure, there are several options for you to develop or test for free, or with substantial cost savings.
We were excited to get back in front of customers at Microsoft Ignite 2023 and PASS Data Community Summit to announce powerful product enhancements across Microsoft Azure databases designed to help customers take the next step or the first step in their transformation journey.
SQL Server backup compression provides the compressed backup option for all streaming SQL Server backup types—full, differential, and transaction log.