Drew Skwiers-Koballa

Development with SQL in containers on macOS

January 13th, 2023

There are a bunch of tools available for developing with SQL on macOS, including the mssql extension for VS Code and the standalone yet-comfortably-familiar Azure Data Studio. As a developer, you might have heard about the Azure SQL Database emulator and you've most certainly heard about deploying SQL in containers. Most recently, a new option...

Developing with Azure SQL bindings and Azure SQL trigger for Azure Functions

December 13th, 2022

The Azure Functions SQL trigger will invoke an Azure Function when data is changed in a SQL database table, enabling new event-driven scenarios with SQL database. Accessing data in a SQL database with Azure Functions can be accomplished more quickly with the Azure SQL bindings for Azure Functions integration.  Azure SQL bindings for Azure ...

Seasons of Serverless Challenge 3: Azure TypeScript Functions and Azure SQL Database serverless

December 14th, 2020

Throughout the next seven weeks we'll be sharing a solution to the week's Seasons of Serverless challenge that integrates Azure SQL Database serverless with Azure serverless compute. Learn how to develop an Azure Function that leverages Azure SQL database serverless and TypeScript with Challenge 3 of the Seasons of Serverless challenge.

Seasons of Serverless Challenge 1: Azure Functions and Azure SQL Database serverless

November 30th, 2020

Throughout the next seven weeks we'll be sharing a solution to the week's Seasons of Serverless challenge that integrates Azure SQL Database serverless with Azure serverless compute. Learn how to develop an Azure Function that leverages Azure SQL database serverless with Challenge 1 of the Seasons of Serverless challenge.