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Planning new scenarios and use cases for Azure SQL Database local development experience!

May 24, 2022 May 24, 2022 05/24/22

Silvano Coriani

At Microsoft Build 2022 we've announced the new Azure SQL Database local development experience to the world. The combination of Visual Studio Code and Azure Data Studio extensions in addition to the new Azure SQL Database emulator for local and offline database development are aimed to significantly improve developers' experience and boost ...

LAUNCH: Build serverless, full stack applications in Azure

May 25, 2021 May 25, 2021 05/25/21

Anna Hoffman

Whether you’re new or seasoned to cloud, development, and SQL, building and architecting applications in the cloud has become a required skill for many roles. Today, we’re excited to announce a new learning path to help developers of all skill levels learn how to create applications quickly and effectively with Azure.

Introducing Configurable Retry Logic in Microsoft.Data.SqlClient v3.0.0-Preview1

March 16, 2021 Mar 16, 2021 03/16/21

Silvano Coriani

Over the last few years, we provided guidance on how customers could create their own retry logic or reuse existing libraries aimed to simplify this task for them, We decided to provide a better experience incorporating configurable retry logic capabilities in our client drivers portfolio starting with Microsoft.Data.SqlClient v3.0.0-Preview1.

Modern development: creating a REST API, via CI/CD and back

January 4, 2021 Jan 4, 2021 01/4/21

Davide Mauri

Video and sample code to create a end-to-end REST solution with Azure SQL, from zero to the CI/CD pipeline, with Unit Testing too!

Programmatically parsing Transact SQL (T-SQL) with the ScriptDom parser

December 11, 2020 Dec 11, 2020 12/11/20

Arvind Shyamsundar

Azure SQL developers have access to a full-fidelity, highly accurate, and easy-to-use client-side parser for T-SQL statements: the TransactSql.ScriptDom parser. This blog post walks through basic usage, and links to a number of resources for digging deeper.

Autoscaling with Azure SQL Hyperscale

December 3, 2020 Dec 3, 2020 12/3/20

Davide Mauri

Azure SQL Hyperscale is the latest architectural evolution of Azure SQL, which has been natively designed to take advantage of the cloud. One of the main key features of this new architecture is the complete separation of Compute Nodes and Storage Nodes. This allows for the independent scale of each service, making Hyperscale more flexible and...

Practical Azure SQL Database for Modern Developers

September 2, 2020 Sep 2, 2020 09/2/20

Davide Mauri

Practical Azure SQL Database for Modern Developers: a book to learn how to take advantage of the all the breakthrough technologies available in Azure SQL like columnstore, in-memory lock-free tables, row-level-security, graph and geospatial support to create modern, scalable and secure applications.

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