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Jun 30, 2025
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Agents at Work: Putting MSSQL MCP Server into Practice

Arun Vijayraghavan
Arun Vijayraghavan

How often have you wished you could just talk to your data? Imagine extracting crucial insights, updating records, or building complex reports without wrestling with intricate query languages or relying on a dedicated developer. For many professionals, the true power of their enterprise data remains locked behind technical barriers, hindering agile...

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Jun 26, 2025
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Introducing MSSQL MCP Server (Preview)

Arun Vijayraghavan
Arun Vijayraghavan

The next leap in data interaction isn't just about efficient processing; it's about intuitive and meaningful conversation with your own data. For years, the true power of SQL Server databases has been locked behind complex query languages and specialized tools, accessible primarily to developers and database administrators. But what if anyone, rega...

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Jun 19, 2025
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Announcing General Availability of Native Vector Type & Functions in Azure SQL

Pooja Kamath Davide Mauri
Pooja,
Davide

We are happy to announce that Native vector support in Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance is moving to General Availability this summer. Deployments are already underway, and several regions have begun receiving the feature. What is going GA? Integrated Vector Data Type Azure SQL introduces a dedicated VECTOR data type that simpl...

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Jun 17, 2025
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SQL Server 2025 CTP 2.1: DiskANN Improvements

Davide Mauri
Davide Mauri

I'm happy to announce that SQL Server 2025 CTP 2.1 is now available, and it brings significant improvements to DiskANN support. While DiskANN remains in preview, each release continues to remove limitations and boost performance. In this release, we’ve made a particularly notable leap in vector index creation speed, with more enhancements on the ho...

AIAzure SQLVectors
Jun 2, 2025
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A story of collaborating agents: chatting with your database the right way

Davide Mauri
Davide Mauri

Today, more and more customers are embracing AI with one clear goal in mind: they want to chat with their data. And by "data," they mean all of it:  structured tables, unstructured documents, images, audio, and more. This demand has given rise to hybrid approaches that blend semantic understanding with precise data retrieval. But here’s the chal...

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May 29, 2025
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Azure SQL Cryptozoology AI Embeddings Lab Now Available!

Brian Spendolini
Brian Spendolini

Missed out on MS Build 2025? No worries! Our lab is now available for your exploration. Dive into a unique cryptozoology experience using Azure SQL and Azure AI to uncover intriguing (and true) connections among cryptids worldwide. Curious about who would reign supreme in a battle royal or which regions of the world hold the key to encountering ...

AIAzure SQLOpenAI
May 29, 2025
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Vector Support Public Preview now extended to Azure SQL MI

Pooja Kamath Mladen Andzic Davide Mauri
Pooja,
Mladen,
Davide

We are thrilled to announce that Azure SQL Managed Instance now supports Vector type and functions in public preview.  This builds on the momentum from Azure SQL Database, where vector support has been in public preview since December. Check out the detailed announcement 💡 Why Choose Azure SQL Managed Instance for AI-Driven Modernization? ...

Azure SQLAIVectors
May 28, 2025
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Getting started with AI in SQL Server 2025 on Windows

Brian Spendolini
Brian Spendolini

Back in the earlier part of the year (February maybe?), I put this tutorial together for our early adopters in the SQL Server 2025 program. It’s a guide for setting up SQL Server 2025 in a Hyper-V VM (I used Windows Server) with Ollama and ngnix as an https proxy. It's a variation of my workshops for Ignite 2024 and a SQL in Fabric one from Februar...

AIOpenAIT-SQL
May 22, 2025
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New AI Features in SQL Server 2025

Brian Spendolini
Brian Spendolini

We have some great new AI Features in SQL Server 2025. I also figured a video would be better than reading a blog.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDJheVYgeVo but, you can also read all about it here.

AIAzure SQLT-SQL
May 6, 2025
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Efficiently and Elegantly Modeling Embeddings in Azure SQL and SQL Server

Davide Mauri
Davide Mauri

Storing and querying text embeddings in a database it might seem challenging, but with the right schema design, it's not only possible, it's powerful. Whether you’re building AI-powered search, semantic filtering, or recommendation features, embeddings, and thus vectors, are now a first-class data type. So how do you model them well inside a databa...

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