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The Azure SQL service has been generally available since the April 2024 release. With Azure SQL service enabled, you can:
- **Monitoring** **jobs**: Perform monitoring jobs to retrieve the native Azure backups for databases and update the backup schedule and data retention settings to Azure. Both the point-in-time restore and long-term retention recovery points can be synced to Azure SQL service.
- **Direct backup jobs**: You can also perform direct backup jobs with Azure SQL backup service to protect Azure SQL databases.
The Azure SQL service trial only allows one backup scope to protect up to 5 databases.
- To create a new monitoring backup scope for Azure SQL, refer to [Create a New Backup Scope for Native Azure SQL Backup Monitoring](#missing-link).
- To create a new direct backup scope for Azure SQL, refer to [](#missing-link)[Create a New Backup Scope for Azure SQL Backup](#missing-link) [](#missing-link).
- For the existing backup scopes, you can perform the following actions:
- Edit – To edit a backup scope, you can select a backup scope and click **Edit** button on the command bar, or you can click the **Edit** button when you are viewing the backup scope details. For details on the backup scope settings, refer to [Create a New Backup Scope for Native Azure SQL Backup Monitoring](#missing-link) or [](#missing-link)[Create a New Backup Scope for Azure SQL Backup](#missing-link) [](#missing-link).
- Delete – To delete a backup scope, you can select a backup scope and click **Delete** button on the command bar, or you can click the **Delete** option from the More actions list when you are viewing the details of a backup scope. You can also select multiple backup scopes to delete. When deleting backup scopes, you can select how to handle your backup data: keep the data and follow the configured retention policy, keep the data for 30 days before deletion, or delete the backup data immediately
- Run backup now – If you want to start a backup immediately, you can select a backup scope and click **Run backup now**, or you can click the **Run backup now** from the More actions list when you are viewing the details of a backup scope.
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