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Mar 27, 2025
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SQL Conf() 2025 Highlights: So Much Developer Innovation!

Jerry Nixon

For decades, SQL Server has been a cornerstone of data management, evolving to meet the needs of modern developers. What began as a traditional relational engine is now a cloud-enabled, AI-integrated platform designed for building real-world applications. SQL Server continues to meet developers where they are—offering tools, services, and capabilit...

Azure SQLAIT-SQL
Mar 19, 2025
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Vector Search with Azure SQL, Semantic Kernel and Entity Framework Core

Davide,
Marco

Vector databases like Qdrant and Milvus are specifically designed to efficiently store, manage, and retrieve embeddings. However, many applications already use relational databases like SQL Server or SQL Azure. In such cases, installing and managing another database can be challenging, especially since these vector databases may not offer all t...

Azure SQLAIAzure OpenAI
Feb 18, 2025
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Go passwordless when calling Azure OpenAI from Azure SQL using Managed Identities

Davide Mauri

Security is a significant topic today, and the ability to access a service requiring authentication without using an API key, password, or secret is a common request from those concerned about the security of a solution, which includes all of us. In today's digital landscape, cybersecurity threats are increasingly sophisticated and frequent, mak...

Azure SQLAISecurity
Feb 18, 2025
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Building an AI App GraphQL Endpoint with SQL DB in Fabric

Brian Spendolini

Welcome to an exciting, new workshop where we blend the power of AI with the versatility of GraphQL and SQL databases in Microsoft Fabric. This guide will walk you through creating a set of GraphQL RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) application APIs, leveraging relational data and Azure OpenAI. What You’ll Learn You’ll dive into querying and ma...

Azure SQLAIT-SQL
Feb 13, 2025
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Database and AI: solutions for keeping embeddings updated

Davide Mauri

In the previous article of this series, it was discussed how embeddings can be quickly created from data already in Azure SQL. This is a useful starting point, but since data in a database changes frequently, a common question arises: “How can the vectors be kept updated whenever there is a change to the content from which they have been generated?...

Azure SQLAI
Feb 4, 2025
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Storing, querying and keeping embeddings updated: options and best practices

Davide Mauri

Embeddings and vectors are becoming common terms not only for engineers involved in AI-related activities but also for those using databases. Some common points of discussion that frequently arise among users familiar with vectors and embeddings include: Let’s tackle each one of these questions one by one starting from the very...

AIVectors
Jan 23, 2025
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Improve the “R” in RAG and embrace Agentic RAG in Azure SQL

Davide Mauri

The RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) pattern, which is commonly discussed today, is based on the foundational idea that the retrieval part is done using vector search. This ensures that all the most relevant information available to answer the given question is returned and then fed to an LLM to generate the final answer. While vector search...

Azure SQLAI
Jan 8, 2025
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Building a RAG-Based Smart Memory Application with Azure SQL Database

Arun,
Davide,
Muazma

Project Mission The way people work and manage information is changing rapidly in our digital age. More and more people are struggling to keep track of all the online resources they use daily. They need a better way to save, organize, and retrieve important information from websites, articles, and other online sources. This is especially true fo...

Azure SQLAIT-SQL
Dec 17, 2024
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Embedding models and dimensions: optimizing the performance to resource-usage ratio

Davide Mauri

Since the release of vector preview, we've been working with many customers that are building AI solution on Azure SQL and SQL Server and one of the most common questions is how to support high-dimensional data, for example more than 2000 dimensions per vector. In fact, at the moment, the vector type supports "only" up to 1998 dimensions for an emb...

Azure SQLAIVectors
Nov 19, 2024
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Announcing LangChain integration for your SQL-based AI applications

Muazma Zahid

In today's data-driven world, the ability to seamlessly integrate various technologies is crucial for efficient data management and analysis. We’re excited to announce LangChain integration with Azure SQL Database and SQL database in Microsoft Fabric! LangChain, a powerful tool for building solutions with language models, can be effectively comb...

Azure SQLAIVectors