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Private Preview for External REST Endpoint Invocation with Azure SQL Managed Instance

April 22, 2024 Apr 22, 2024 04/22/24

Brian Spendolini

We have an exciting opportunity for customers and partners to use External REST Endpoint Invocation with Azure SQL Managed Instance in a private preview. What is Azure SQL Managed Instance? Azure SQL Managed Instance is a PaaS service that has near 100% compatibility with the latest Enterprise Edition SQL Server database engine, providing a ...

Data API builder Version 0.11 Brings In-Memory Caching

April 18, 2024 Apr 18, 2024 04/18/24

Jerry Nixon

Literally, I just said that! I have three daughters, and it's amazing how they ask me the same questions over and over. I don't mind answering them, but I sure wish they would either remember my answer or, at least, write it down. There's a measurable cognitive load with the context switching and staying consistent in my answers. And that's a ...

Using AI for Content Moderation with Azure SQL Database

February 12, 2024 Feb 12, 2024 02/12/24

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 ...

Winter 2023 Service Update for External REST Endpoint Invocation

November 30, 2023 Nov 30, 2023 11/30/23

Brian Spendolini

As December approaches, it's time for the winter 2023 update for External REST Endpoint Invocation. We have added four new Azure Service Endpoints: Bing Search, Azure Key Vault, Azure Communication Services, and Azure AI Search. Let's look at a few examples of using these new endpoints. Bing Search Endpoints Bing Seach has many useful API ...

OpenAPI for your Azure SQL database

October 24, 2023 Oct 24, 2023 10/24/23

Davide Mauri

A recent and exciting feature of Data API builder (you may have learned about Data API builder from my previous article, as I used it to quickly make a stored procedure and a table available as REST endpoint to easily integrate with OpenAI) is the compatibility with OpenAPI specifications and Swagger. This was a highly demanded feature, and it...

Creating a Kubernetes Application for Azure SQL Database

October 4, 2023 Oct 4, 2023 10/4/23

Buck Woody

(image) Creating a Kubernetes Application for Azure SQL Database Buck Woody, Principal Applied Data Scientist, Microsoft Modern application development has several challenges. From selecting a "stack" of front-end through data storage and processing from several competing standards, through ensuring the highest levels of security and ...

Generate images with Azure OpenAI Service (DALL-E) and Azure SQL Database

September 25, 2023 Sep 25, 2023 09/25/23

Brian Spendolini

Following on the series of OpenAI posts I have done recently, here is a quick how-to on using DALL-E with External REST endpoint invocation in the Azure SQL Database. Using the OpenAI service in Azure, we can use the image generation REST endpoints to create new and wonderful images such as, if you remember, the cat in the data center. ...

REST Endpoint Invocation is now Generally Available

August 28, 2023 Aug 28, 2023 08/28/23

Brian Spendolini

(image) On behalf of the Engineering and Product Management teams, we are happy to announce that External REST Endpoint Invocation is now GA! What is External REST Endpoint Invocation? External REST Endpoint Invocation makes it possible for developers to call REST/GraphQL endpoints from other Azure Services from right in the ...

Summer 2023 Update for Azure SQL Database External REST Endpoint Invocation

August 7, 2023 Aug 7, 2023 08/7/23

Brian Spendolini

(image) Summer 2023 REST Endpoint Invocation Update Welcome to the Summer 2023 REST Endpoint Invocation update post! This summer, we updated the External REST Endpoints Invocation feature with a few key fixes and additions to help you use more Azure Services with your Azure SQL Database. The feature was released to public preview last year ...

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