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Build your APIs with DAB using Containers – Part 2

February 13, 2024 Feb 13, 2024 02/13/24
Carlos Robles
Are you tired of spending countless hours building APIs from scratch? With Data API builder (DAB), you can create your API in just minutes! All you need to do is create a JSON configuration file to describe your database entities (tables, views, stored procedures, or collections) from your Azure SQL Database, SQL Server, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL...

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 ...

Build your APIs with DAB using Containers – Part 1

December 12, 2023 Dec 12, 2023 12/12/23
Carlos Robles
Are you tired of spending countless hours building APIs from scratch? With Data API Builder (DAB), you can create your API in just minutes! All you need to do is create a JSON configuration file to describe your database entities (tables, views, stored procedures, or collections) from your Azure SQL Database, SQL Server, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL...

Data API builder 0.9.7 Released

November 28, 2023 Nov 28, 2023 11/28/23
Davide Mauri
There has been a lot of news and exciting announcements in the past days and Data API builder now join the long list of releases that you don't want to miss. Version 0.9.7 introduces some interesting features, especially around observability and logging, to make it easier to figure out what's going on behind the scenes. Enable Application ...

Build your API with DAB. Build your client with Kiota!

October 27, 2023 Oct 27, 2023 10/27/23
Jerry Nixon
Project Kiota is a code generation engine from Microsoft that reads the OpenAPI specification emitted from any REST endpoint and then creates reusable client code in CSharp, Go, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, Swift, and TypeScript. Kiota is a byproduct of Microsoft Graph, a sophisticated REST endpoint that required developers to write boilerplate ...

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...

Data API builder for Azure SQL Databases – Public Preview

March 15, 2023 Mar 15, 2023 03/15/23
Davide Mauri
I am extremely happy and excited to announce the public preview of Data API builder for Azure SQL Databases. Data API builder is a new product that we are adding to the developer’s toolset to help every developer to be more efficient and effective, by instantly and securely turning Azure SQL Databases into a modern REST and GraphQL API. ...

Announcing the “Azure SQL Database External REST Endpoints Integration” Early Adoption Program

May 24, 2022 May 24, 2022 05/24/22
Davide Mauri
A new, exciting capability for Azure SQL Database has been announced today at //Build: Azure SQL Database has a new built-in feature that allows native integration with external REST endpoints. This means that integration of Azure SQL Database with Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps, Cognitive Services, Event Hubs, Event Grid, Azure ...

Modern application development with Prisma, GraphQL (or REST) and Azure SQL

October 11, 2021 Oct 11, 2021 10/11/21
Davide Mauri
Prisma is an open-source next-generation ORM for Node.js and TypeScript that eliminates many of the usual challenges that developers face, making you more productive and confident when building data-intensive applications. You can use it as an alternative to traditional ORMs and SQL query builders to read and write data to your database.