Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for mid-November 2023

In mid-November 2023, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: • Improve the performance and scalability of Azure SQL Database Hyperscale elastic pools with the new [premium-series, and memory optimized premium-series hardware options](https://aka.ms/hsep-prms). • Enable disaster recovery for Azure SQL Database at lower cost using [standby replica](https://aka.ms/sqldbstandby) which does not incur license costs. • Replicate Azure SQL Managed Instance databases to SQL Server 2022 and in case of disaster, failover online SQL Server 2022 databases to Azure SQL Managed Instance using the [link feature](https://aka.ms/mi-link-dr-public-preview-announcement). * Azure SQL Database * Features * Microsoft Ignite