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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 ...

Building your own DB Copilot for Azure SQL with Azure OpenAI GPT-4

August 25, 2023 Aug 25, 2023 08/25/23
Valentina Alto
(image) Large Language Models (LLMs) have proven exceptional capabilities in chatting with unstructured, text data. But what if we want to interact with structured data? To do so, we will need to build an LLM-powered Agent which is able to reason over structured data, in our specific case an Azure SQL DB. Luckily for us, we don’t have to ...

Make data more human with Azure OpenAI and Azure SQL

April 14, 2023 Apr 14, 2023 04/14/23
Valentina Alto
In January 2023, Microsoft announced the General Availability of the Azure OpenAI Service (AOAI), which allows Azure customers to access OpenAI models directly within their Azure subscription and with their own capacity. (image) There are four models families available at the moment:   (image) In this ...

Using Python and Azure Functions to send data from Azure SQL Database

February 26, 2023 Feb 26, 2023 02/26/23
Drew Skwiers-Koballa
When building applications on Azure SQL, one of the most flexible ways to send data from your database to other systems is to use Azure Functions. Azure Functions are serverless functions that can be triggered by a variety of events, including HTTP requests, timers, and Azure SQL Database changes. In this article, we will discuss how to send ...

Create REST API in Python with Django, using the Django REST Framework and Azure SQL

March 2, 2022 Mar 2, 2022 03/2/22
Abhiman Tiwari
Django is a Python-based open-source web framework. It is a popular and well-liked web framework among developers all around the world. But wouldn't it be amazing to build a website with Django while also taking advantage of Azure SQL database's security, performance, high availability, and other great capabilities? In this article, we will...

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.