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Sep 11, 2024
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EAP for Vector Support Refresh – Introducing Vector type

Davide Mauri Pooja Kamath
Davide,
Pooja

Latest update - 06 November 2024 Vector Support is now available as Public Preview! Read the announcement here: Public Preview of Native Vector Support in Azure SQL Database! Access to full documentation here: Vector functions. The new data type Not even 6 months ago we started the Early Adopter Preview vector data support in Azure SQL, and...

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Aug 29, 2024
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Vector Support EAP extended to Azure SQL MI

Davide Mauri Pooja Kamath
Davide,
Pooja

If you are looking forward to build AI-enabled applications on your own data, you'll be excited to know that the Early Adopter Preview announced for Azure SQL DB on native vector capabilities is now available also for those who have data stored in Azure SQL Managed Instance! Make sure to learn how to store and use vectors functions reading the o...

AIAzure SQLVectors
Aug 26, 2024
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Retrieval Augmented Generation with Azure SQL

Davide Mauri
Davide Mauri

Retrieval Augmented Generation, or RAG, is one of the hottest topics at the moment as it opens up the possibility of interacting with data using natural language, which is a long-time dream finally coming true. It is very likely that a lot of your data is already stored or will be stored in Azure SQL, so a common request is to have an exampl...

Azure SQLAIVectors
Aug 1, 2024
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Similarity Search with FAISS and Azure SQL

Muazma Zahid
Muazma Zahid

In today’s data-driven world, finding similar items within large datasets is a common challenge. Whether it’s recommending products, identifying similar documents, or clustering data points, efficient similarity search is crucial. This blog post will explore how to leverage FAISS (Facebook AI Similarity Search) and Azure SQL to perform similarity s...

Azure SQLAIT-SQL
Jun 4, 2024
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Unleashing the Potential of Generative AI in Azure SQL Database

Sanjay Mishra
Sanjay Mishra

Generative AI is not just a technological advancement; it's a paradigm shift that is redefining the landscape of customer interaction. Azure SQL Database stands at the forefront of this revolution, offering unparalleled opportunities to harness the power of "your data" in crafting state-of-the-art applications. As we stand at the cusp of an AI r...

Azure SQLAIOpenAI
May 21, 2024
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Announcing EAP for Vector Support in Azure SQL Database

Pooja Kamath Davide Mauri
Pooja,
Davide

We are super excited to announce the Early Adopter Preview of Native Vector Support in Azure SQL Database and are currently accepting requests from customers who wish to participate. SQL beyond RDBMS Vector databases have gained a lot of prominence lately. These specialized repositories handle vector data, crucial for applications like semant...

Azure SQLAIVectors
May 21, 2024
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What’s a Vector Anyway?

Buck Woody
Buck Woody

It's a bit of an understatement to say that Artificial Intelligence (AI), and specifically Generative AI, is at the top of every announcement, news feed, article and discussion lately. Not just in technology, but everywhere. There are a lot of things you to learn to understand not just how to use AI, but how it works. One of those things is underst...

Azure SQLAIVectors
Apr 18, 2024
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Vector Search Optimization via KMeans, Voronoi Cells and Inverted File Index (aka “Cell-Probing”)

Davide Mauri
Davide Mauri

In a previous article I already mentioned how vectors can be easily stored in Azure SQL already and how to calculate dot product and cosine distance using just T-SQL. In this article I will show how to improve the performance in vector search by using a technique that has many name but is really based on something very well know already: KMeans Clu...

AIAzure SQLVectors
Feb 19, 2024
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NL2SQL with LangChain and Azure SQL Database

Brian Spendolini
Brian Spendolini

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 you want as if ...

Azure SQLAIOpenAI
Feb 12, 2024
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Using AI for Content Moderation with Azure SQL Database

Brian Spendolini
Brian Spendolini

In my previous posts, I have covered using Azure OpenAI services with Azure SQL Database via REST endpoints. This post with further explore that pathway by creating stored procedures you can use to encapsulate the REST calls and combine them with custom business logic for AI content moderation with Azure SQL Database. A Quick Introduction The ser...

Azure SQLAIOpenAI