Updating whats new for DOP feedback GA (#34657)

Author: MashaMSFT

azure-sql/managed-instance/doc-changes-updates-release-notes-whats-new.md

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ The following table lists the features of Azure SQL Managed Instance that are cu
 
 | Feature | Details |
 | ---| --- |
-| [Approximate or fuzzy string matching](/sql/relational-databases/fuzzy-string-match/overview)| Check if two strings are similar, and calculate the difference between two strings. Use this capability to identify strings that might be different because of character corruption.|
+|[Approximate or fuzzy string matching](/sql/relational-databases/fuzzy-string-match/overview)| Check if two strings are similar, and calculate the difference between two strings. Use this capability to identify strings that might be different because of character corruption.|
 |[Database watcher for Azure SQL](../database-watcher-overview.md) | Database watcher is a managed monitoring solution for database services in the Azure SQL family. Database watcher collects in-depth workload monitoring data to give you a detailed view of database performance, configuration, and health. Learn more about [database watcher](https://aka.ms/dbwatcher-preview-announcement).|
 |[DATEADD number allows bigint](/sql/t-sql/functions/dateadd-transact-sql) | For `DATEADD (datepart , number , date )`, number can be expressed as a **bigint**.|
 |[Endpoint policies](./service-endpoint-policies-configure.md) | Configure which Azure Storage accounts can be accessed from a SQL Managed Instance subnet. Grants an extra layer of protection against inadvertent or malicious data exfiltration.|
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ The following table lists features of Azure SQL Managed Instance that have been
 
 | Feature | GA Month | Details |
 | ---| --- |--- |
-| [Degrees of Parallelism (DOP) Feedback](/sql/relational-databases/performance/intelligent-query-processing-degree-parallelism-feedback?view=azuresqldb-current&preserve-view=true) | DOP Feedback is now generally available for Azure SQL Database. For more information, see [Smarter Parallelism: Degree of parallelism feedback in SQL Server 2025](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sqlserver/smarter-parallelism-degree-of-parallelism-feedback-in-sql-server-2025/4431318). |
+| [Degrees of parallelism (DOP) feedback](/sql/relational-databases/performance/intelligent-query-processing-degree-parallelism-feedback?view=azuresqldb-mi-current&preserve-view=true) | July 2025|  DOP feedback improves query performance by identifying parallelism inefficiencies for repeating queries, based on elapsed time and waits. For more information, see the [Smarter Parallelism: Degree of parallelism feedback in SQL Server 2025](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sqlserver/smarter-parallelism-degree-of-parallelism-feedback-in-sql-server-2025/4431318) blog. |
 |[Zone redundancy for General Purpose](high-availability-sla-local-zone-redundancy.md#zone-redundant-availability) | June 2025|  Deploy your General Purpose SQL Managed Instance to multiple availability zones to improve the availability of your instance in the event of a disaster. | 
 |[Invoke an HTTPS REST endpoint SP](/sql/relational-databases/system-stored-procedures/sp-invoke-external-rest-endpoint-transact-sql) | June 2025 | Use the `sp_invoke_external_rest_endpoint` stored procedure to invoke an HTTPS REST endpoint provided as an input argument to the procedure. | 
 | [TLS 1.3 support for replication](replication-transactional-overview.md#tls-13-support) | May 2025 | Configure Azure SQL Managed Instance replication agents to use TLS 1.3. |
@@ -73,8 +73,7 @@ The following table lists features of Azure SQL Managed Instance that have been
 |[Link from SQL MI to SQL Server](managed-instance-link-feature-overview.md) | October 2024 | Configure a link *from* Azure SQL Managed Instance to SQL Server 2022. |
 |[Two-way DR with SQL Server 2022](managed-instance-link-disaster-recovery.md) | October 2024 | In the event of a disaster, you can fail your SQL Server 2022 workloads to Azure SQL Managed Instance using the link, and then, once the disaster is mitigated, you can fail back to SQL Server. |
 |[CURRENT_DATE Transact-SQL](/sql/t-sql/functions/current-date-transact-sql) | August 2024 |  A Transact-SQL (T-SQL) function that returns the current database system date as a date value, without the database time and time zone offset. |
-|[Maintenance window advance notifications](advance-notifications.md)| June 2024 | Advance notifications for SQL managed instance [maintenance window](maintenance-window.md) are now generally available.  |
-|[Update policy](update-policy.md) | May 2024 | Use the update policy to control your internal database format alignment and access to the latest SQL Database Engine features. You can choose to either limit the feature set to features that are available in SQL Server 2022, or ensure your instance takes advantage of all the latest features of Azure SQL Managed Instance.| 
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 ## Documentation changes
 
@@ -84,7 +83,7 @@ Learn about significant changes to the Azure SQL Managed Instance documentation.
 
 | Changes | Details |
 | --- | --- |
-| [Degrees of Parallelism (DOP) Feedback](/sql/relational-databases/performance/intelligent-query-processing-degree-parallelism-feedback?view=azuresqldb-current&preserve-view=true) | DOP Feedback is now generally available for Azure SQL Managed Instance in the Always-up-to-date update policy. For more information, see [Smarter Parallelism: Degree of parallelism feedback in SQL Server 2025](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sqlserver/smarter-parallelism-degree-of-parallelism-feedback-in-sql-server-2025/4431318). |
+| **Degrees of parallelism (DOP) feedback GA** |  DOP feedback improves query performance by identifying parallelism inefficiencies for repeating queries, based on elapsed time and waits. DOP feedback is now generally available for Azure SQL Managed Instance with the [Always-up-to-date update policy](update-policy.md#always-up-to-date-update-policy). To learn more, see [Degrees of parallelism (DOP) feedback](/sql/relational-databases/performance/intelligent-query-processing-degree-parallelism-feedback?view=azuresqldbmi-current&preserve-view=true). For additional information, see the [Smarter Parallelism: Degree of parallelism feedback in SQL Server 2025](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sqlserver/smarter-parallelism-degree-of-parallelism-feedback-in-sql-server-2025/4431318) blog. |
 
 ### June 2025
 

azure-sql/managed-instance/update-policy.md

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ The following table lists all the features that are only available to instances
 
 |*Always-up-to-date* update policy  |*SQL Server 2022* update policy  |
 |---------|---------|
-|- [JSON data type](/sql/t-sql/data-types/json-data-type) <br /> - [Invoke an HTTPS REST endpoint SP](/sql/relational-databases/system-stored-procedures/sp-invoke-external-rest-endpoint-transact-sql) <br /> - [Azure SQL Managed Instance Mirroring in Fabric](/fabric/database/mirrored-database/azure-sql-managed-instance) <br /> - [Vector functions](/sql/t-sql/functions/vector-functions-transact-sql?view=azuresqlmi-current&preserve-view=true) <br /> - [Vector data type](/sql/t-sql/data-types/vector-data-type?view=azuresqlmi-current&preserve-view=true) <br /> - [Fuzzy string matching?](/sql/relational-databases/fuzzy-string-match/overview)  <br /> - [DATEADD (Transact-SQL)](/sql/t-sql/functions/dateadd-transact-sql).  <br /> - [UNISTR (Transact-SQL)](/sql/t-sql/functions/unistr-transact-sql) <br /> - [Regular expression functions](/sql/relational-databases/regular-expressions/overview) <br /> - [\|\| (String concatenation)](/sql/t-sql/language-elements/string-concatenation-pipes-transact-sql) <br /> - [\|\|= (Compound assignment)](/sql/t-sql/language-elements/compound-assignment-pipes-transact-sql)  | - [Restore database to SQL Server 2022](restore-database-to-sql-server.md)  <br /> - [Link with bidirectional failover and disaster recovery](managed-instance-link-disaster-recovery.md)   |
+|- [JSON data type](/sql/t-sql/data-types/json-data-type) <br /> - [Invoke an HTTPS REST endpoint SP](/sql/relational-databases/system-stored-procedures/sp-invoke-external-rest-endpoint-transact-sql) <br /> - [Azure SQL Managed Instance Mirroring in Fabric](/fabric/database/mirrored-database/azure-sql-managed-instance) <br /> - [Vector functions](/sql/t-sql/functions/vector-functions-transact-sql?view=azuresqlmi-current&preserve-view=true) <br /> - [Vector data type](/sql/t-sql/data-types/vector-data-type?view=azuresqlmi-current&preserve-view=true) <br /> - [Fuzzy string matching?](/sql/relational-databases/fuzzy-string-match/overview)  <br /> - [DATEADD (Transact-SQL)](/sql/t-sql/functions/dateadd-transact-sql).  <br /> - [UNISTR (Transact-SQL)](/sql/t-sql/functions/unistr-transact-sql) <br /> - [Regular expression functions](/sql/relational-databases/regular-expressions/overview) <br /> - [\|\| (String concatenation)](/sql/t-sql/language-elements/string-concatenation-pipes-transact-sql) <br /> - [\|\|= (Compound assignment)](/sql/t-sql/language-elements/compound-assignment-pipes-transact-sql) <br /> - [Degree of parallelism (DOP) feedback](/sql/relational-databases/performance/intelligent-query-processing-degree-parallelism-feedback?view=azuresqlmi-current&preserve-view=true)  | - [Restore database to SQL Server 2022](restore-database-to-sql-server.md)  <br /> - [Link with bidirectional failover and disaster recovery](managed-instance-link-disaster-recovery.md)   |
 
 The following features are impacted by the configured update policy: