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Apr 30, 2025
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MSSQL Extension for VS Code: Introducing Schema Compare (Preview)

Tauseef Siddique
Tauseef Siddique

Overview We are excited to introduce Schema Compare in the MSSQL Extension for VS Code! It can be tedious to manually manage and synchronize different database versions. Enter Schema Compare, the powerful new feature for MSSQL in VS Code that transforms this tedious task into a seamless experience. With intuitive visualization that instantly hi...

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Jan 30, 2025
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Hot Reload in Data API builder Now Available

Jerry Nixon
Jerry Nixon

Announcing Hot Reload In a recent release, Data API builder (DAB) announced support for Hot Reload. This allows developers to modify the configuration file, save it and see the impact of those changes without restarting the engine. This tightens the loop, allowing developers to tune their implementation without waiting for needless tear down...

Data API builder
Apr 22, 2024
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Private Preview for External REST Endpoint Invocation with Azure SQL Managed Instance

Brian Spendolini
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 nativ...

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Apr 3, 2024
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Vanna.ai and Azure SQL Database

Brian Spendolini
Brian Spendolini

Vanna.ai and Microsoft SQL Vanna.ai, in partnership with Azure SQL Database Product Management, bring you a collaboration for using Vanna's natural language to SQL (NL2SQL) agent with the Azure SQL Database. How does Vanna.ai work? First, Vanna is an open-source Python RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) framework for SQL generation/natural lan...

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Mar 14, 2024
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Azure SQL Trigger Binding for Azure Functions goes GA

Brian Spendolini
Brian Spendolini

Azure SQL Database Engineering and Product Management would like to announce that Azure SQL Trigger Binding for Azure Functions is now generally available (GA). Catching Up As a quick refresher, the Azure SQL trigger uses SQL change tracking functionality to monitor a SQL table for changes and trigger a function when a row is created, updated, or...

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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 ...

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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
Nov 30, 2023
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Winter 2023 Service Update for External REST Endpoint Invocation

Brian Spendolini
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 endpoin...

Azure SQLOpenAIREST
Sep 25, 2023
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Generate images with Azure OpenAI Service (DALL-E) and Azure SQL Database

Brian Spendolini
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. So ho...

Azure SQLOpenAIREST
Aug 28, 2023
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REST Endpoint Invocation is now Generally Available

Brian Spendolini
Brian Spendolini

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 Azure SQL Database....

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