January 27th, 2025

Introducing Change Event Streaming: Join the Azure SQL Database Private Preview for Change Data Streaming

Sasa Popovic
Senior Product Manager

In a world where digital transformation is accelerating, the ability to integrate and process real-time data from diverse sources is crucial for success. Organizations today depend on timely insights to enhance decision-making, improve operations, and foster innovation. To meet this need, we’re thrilled to announce the private preview of Change Event Streaming (CES), a new functionality that lets you stream data changes directly from your Azure SQL Database into Azure Event Hubs.

Starting now, you can apply to join this preview program. Participants will have the chance to test CES on Azure SQL Database and Azure Event Hubs, with plans to expand support for additional sources and destinations in the future. By participating, you’ll gain early access to the feature, collaborate with the product team, and help shape the final release with your feedback.

Important Note: CES can also be tested using Azure SQL Database’s free offer, making it easy for anyone to get started.

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How Can Change Event Streaming Benefit You?

CES is designed to address key scenarios where real-time, event-driven data integration is essential. Some typical use cases include:

  • Building event-driven systems: Enhance your relational databases with minimal overhead and simplified data integration.
  • Data synchronization: Keep distributed systems or microservices in sync.
  • Real-time analytics: Deliver up-to-date insights by integrating analytics systems with your transactional data.
  • Auditing and monitoring: Track changes to sensitive data or log specific events for compliance and security.

Why Use CES and Azure Event Hubs?

Here are several benefits of leveraging Change Event Streaming and a message broker like Azure Event Hubs:

  • Scalability: Handle high-throughput workloads and scale independently of your database.
  • Decoupling: Build loosely coupled architectures, allowing greater flexibility and easier maintenance.
  • Multi-consumer support: Enable diverse downstream use cases with multiple consumers processing the same data stream.
  • Real-time integration: Connect OLTP systems with downstream consumers for instantaneous data flow.

If these benefits align with your needs, CES is the perfect solution for real-time, event-driven data scenarios.

Apply for the Private Preview

To join the private preview, simply email us at sqlcesfeedback [at] microsoft [dot] com, and we’ll provide all the necessary details.

Take advantage of this opportunity to pioneer the next evolution of real-time data integration!

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Author

Sasa Popovic
Senior Product Manager

Sasa Popovic is a Product Manager in Azure SQL team, with a focus on data mobility scenarios, distributed transactions and replication. Previously, for 10 years worked as a software engineer on SQL Server and Azure SQL features such as Window Functions, Query Store and SQL MI time zones. Sasa is active on LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/sasapopovic/).

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