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SQL query generation from natural language

Evaluating AI agents for NL-to-SQL generation across Azure Databricks AI/BI Genie, GitHub Copilot CLI, and Microsoft Agent Framework. We achieved ~75% accuracy with schema documentation and runtime validation, while discovering that business logic errors represent a fundamental limitation requiring domain expertise.
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Durable Workflows in the Microsoft Agent Framework

Build durable AI agent workflows with the Microsoft Agent Framework. Start with in-process console apps, add durability with the Durable Task runtime, scale with parallel AI agents, and host on Azure Functions for serverless execution.
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May 7, 2026
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SQL query generation from natural language

Ashley Costigane
Evaluating AI agents for NL-to-SQL generation across Azure Databricks AI/BI Genie, GitHub Copilot CLI, and Microsoft Agent Framework. We achieved ~75% accuracy with schema documentation and runtime validation, while discovering that business logic errors represent a fundamental limitation requiring domain expertise.
ISE Developer Blog
May 6, 2026
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Visual Studio Code 1.119

Visual Studio Code Team
Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.119 Read the full article
VS Code Blog
May 6, 2026
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From Local to Production: Deploy Your Microsoft Agent Framework Agent with Foundry Hosted Agents

Tao,
Shawn
Once you have your Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) agent or workflow happily running locally on your dev machine, it's time to decide how to deploy your agent to production, monitor it, evaluate it and version it. These decisions are just as important as getting the agent running. Hosted...
Microsoft Agent Framework
May 6, 2026
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Durable Workflows in the Microsoft Agent Framework

Shyju Krishnankutty
Build durable AI agent workflows with the Microsoft Agent Framework. Start with in-process console apps, add durability with the Durable Task runtime, scale with parallel AI agents, and host on Azure Functions for serverless execution.
.NET Blog
May 6, 2026
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GitHub Copilot Modernize 101 is live on the Microsoft Developer Channel

Ayan Gupta
Modernization used to be something you avoided until you couldn’t anymore. A big rewrite. A long migration plan. A risky cutover. Something you’d maybe do once every few years—if you had to. That model doesn’t work anymore. The ask has changed. It’s not just “move to the...
Microsoft for Java Developers
May 6, 2026
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Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Cosmos DB Shell: Open-Source Power Meets AI-Driven Database Automation

Sajeetharan Sinnathurai
 Today, we're thrilled to announce the public preview of Azure Cosmos DB Shell – a powerful, open-source command-line interface that revolutionizes how developers interact with their Azure Cosmos DB databases. With integrated Model Context Protocol (MCP) server support, native agentic...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
May 6, 2026
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Why not have changes in API behavior depend on the SDK you link against?

Raymond Chen
Static libraries don't stand a chance.
The Old New Thing
May 5, 2026
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Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026 Recap: Lessons from Production

Mark Brown
A team was running at 100% RU utilization. Throttles were compounding into retries. P99 latency was degrading. The assumption was obvious: provision more throughput. They didn’t. Instead, they found a single logical partition absorbing more than 80% of traffic. After fixing the...
Microsoft for Developers
May 5, 2026
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A dispute over the TAB key highlights a mismatch between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures

Raymond Chen
I want to speak to your manager.
The Old New Thing