Working with Secure Enclaves in Azure SQL Database Microsoft announced a lot of Azure SQL news at Ignite this month, but few as critical to application development security than the public preview of Always Encrypted with secure enclaves. Here's how to get started with this new feature. By Joey D'Antoni 03/15/2021 At the recent Microsoft Ignite virtual conference, there were a few announcements around the Azure SQL (Microsoft's marketing term to describe all of its various SQL Server-related projects, both on-premises and in the cloud) platform. These announcements include the ability to patch Windows servers running on Azure without rebooting, and some enhancements to the Azure Synapse Analytics and Cosmos DB platforms.