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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 ...

Azure SQL Trigger Binding for Azure Functions goes GA

March 14, 2024 Mar 14, 2024 03/14/24
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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...