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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 ...

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.

Serverless REST API with Azure Functions, Node, JSON and Azure SQL

September 8, 2020 Sep 8, 2020 09/8/20

Davide Mauri

Javascript / Typescript (and thus Node) are, among Full-Stack and Back-End developers, one of the most common choices to create scalable, elegant, high-performance, REST API to be used by the most diverse clients. Azure Functions are another pretty popular solution that developers use to create scalable solution without having to deal with all...

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.

Architecting REST API with Python, Flask and Azure SQL

July 22, 2020 Jul 22, 2020 07/22/20

Davide Mauri

Creating REST API with Azure SQL is never been easier thanks to its native JSON support. Let's see how we can use Python and Flask to create an elegant and modern solution to serve REST API to the world

JSON in your Azure SQL Database? Let’s benchmark some options!

June 10, 2020 Jun 10, 2020 06/10/20

Silvano Coriani

Introduction Storing and retrieving data from JSON fragments is a common need in many application scenarios, like IoT solutions or microservice-based architectures. You can persist these fragments can be in a variety of data stores, from blob or file shares, to relational and non-relational databases, and there’s a long standing debate in...

10 reasons to use Azure SQL in your next project

April 25, 2020 Apr 25, 2020 04/25/20

Davide Mauri

There are many database technologies available on Azure that you can choose from. Why would you use Azure SQL? Let me show you why, using just 10 simple points: from JSON support to ColumnStore, through Geospatial and Temporal queries, Non-Blocking transaction, Encryption and Row-Level Security and the amazing Intelligent Query Optimizer.

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