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A named replica is a read-only compute replica in Hyperscale used for read scale-out, with its own connection endpoint, that does not participate in automatic failover and shares the primary replica's page servers and storage layer.
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10/20/2026
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Azure SQL Hyperscale Architecture Explained: A Cloud-Native Database with Decoupled Compute and Storage
youtubeMicrosoft Developer10/20/2026
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