Azure SQL Devs’ Corner

Voices from the Azure SQL PM Team, focusing on development and developers

Azure SQL Trigger Binding for Azure Functions goes GA

Azure SQL Database Engineering and Product Management would like to announce that Azure SQL Trigger Binding for Azure Functions is now generally available (GA). Catching Up As a quick refresher, the Azure SQL trigger uses SQL change tracking functionality to monitor a SQL table for changes and trigger a function when a row is created, ...

NL2SQL with LangChain and Azure SQL Database

(image) LangChain is an open-source framework for creating applications that use and are powered by language models (LLM/MLM/SML). In this post, basic LangChain components (toolkits, chains, agents) will be used to create a natural language to SQL prompt that will allow interactions with an Azure SQL Database; just ask the database what ...

Build your APIs with DAB using Containers – Part 2

Are you tired of spending countless hours building APIs from scratch? With Data API builder (DAB), you can create your API in just minutes! All you need to do is create a JSON configuration file to describe your database entities (tables, views, stored procedures, or collections) from your Azure SQL Database, SQL Server, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL...

Chat with your data in Azure SQL Database

Welcome to the exploration of how to chat with your data in Azure SQL Database. Being able to interact with your data more intuitively and conversationally can significantly enhance your data analysis and decision-making processes. This blog post will guide you through the process of setting up a chat interface for your Azure SQL Database, ...

Relationship Advice from Data API builder

Data API builder exposes REST endpoints for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB, SQL Server and Azure SQL. REST (Representational State Transfer) endpoints allow developers to easily query a single table, view or stored procedure. However, Data API builder also exposes GraphQL endpoints. Like REST, GraphQL returns data, but unlike REST, GraphQL can ...

Build your APIs with DAB using Containers – Part 1

Are you tired of spending countless hours building APIs from scratch? With Data API Builder (DAB), you can create your API in just minutes! All you need to do is create a JSON configuration file to describe your database entities (tables, views, stored procedures, or collections) from your Azure SQL Database, SQL Server, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL...

Winter 2023 Service Update for External REST Endpoint Invocation

As December approaches, it's time for the winter 2023 update for External REST Endpoint Invocation. We have added four new Azure Service Endpoints: Bing Search, Azure Key Vault, Azure Communication Services, and Azure AI Search. Let's look at a few examples of using these new endpoints. Bing Search Endpoints Bing Seach has many useful API ...

Data API builder 0.9.7 Released

There has been a lot of news and exciting announcements in the past days and Data API builder now join the long list of releases that you don't want to miss. Version 0.9.7 introduces some interesting features, especially around observability and logging, to make it easier to figure out what's going on behind the scenes. Enable Application ...