KB5016729 - Improvement: Enable distributed availability groups on SQL Server Standard editions with Azure services

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Applies To

SQL Server 2019 on Linux SQL Server 2019 on Windows SQL Server 2022 on Linux (all editions) SQL Server 2022 on Windows (all editions) SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 3

Summary

This improvement enables distributed availability groups on Microsoft SQL Server Standard editions only to establish database replication with Azure resources. Otherwise, distributed availability groups are not supported with Standard editions of Microsoft SQL Server.

More information

This improvement is included in the following cumulative updates for SQL Server:

SQL Server 2022 RTM
Cumulative Update 17 for SQL Server 2019
SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 3 (SP3) (with Azure Connect Feature Pack enabled)

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