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Prisma is an open-source next-generation ORM for Node.js and TypeScript that eliminates many of the usual challenges that developers face, making you more productive and confident when building data-intensive applications. You can use it as an alternative to traditional ORMs and SQL query builders to read and write data to your database.

Whether you’re new or seasoned to cloud, development, and SQL, building and architecting applications in the cloud has become a required skill for many roles. Today, we’re excited to announce a new learning path to help developers of all skill levels learn how to create applications quickly and effectively with Azure.

The node-mssql package simplify a lot the process of connecting and using Azure SQL with Node

Over the last few years, we provided guidance on how customers could create their own retry logic or reuse existing libraries aimed to simplify this task for them, We decided to provide a better experience incorporating configurable retry logic capabilities in our client drivers portfolio starting with Microsoft.Data.SqlClient v3.0.0-Preview1.

This article showcases how to take advantage of a highly distributed framework provided by spark engine, to load data into a Clustered Columnstore Index of a relational database like SQL Server or Azure SQL Database, by carefully partitioning the data before insertion.

How to solve the common problem of "insert-if-not-exists" in a very elegant, clever and scalable way.

An overview of Azure SQL and SQL Server's Intelligent Query Processing and how it positively impacts developers.

Graph theory and associated techniques are extremely powerful. Azure SQL allows native representation of graphs as node and edge tables, and provides breadth-first-search traversal for native path finding. This blog post demonstrates the ease of use, and great power of, these features by using them to solve the classic river crossing riddle!

Video and sample code to create a end-to-end REST solution with Azure SQL, from zero to the CI/CD pipeline, with Unit Testing too!