name NLP to SQL Chatbot in-a-box (AI-in-a-Box) with enables Azure SQL databases, Azure OpenAI, Semantic Kernel, and Azure AI Speech Service description Users to interact with SQL databases using ...

CREATE EXTERNAL MODEL: Native T-SQL support for deploying and managing AI models directly in the database AI_GENERATE_EMBEDDINGS: Built-in T-SQL function for generating vector embeddings with a ...

For more details, see Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication for SQL Server overview. The new authentication mode using Azure AD is based on the central authentication repository provided ...

One of the Azure SQL-related announcements that did not get a lot of publicity at May's Microsoft Build conference was the Azure SQL Database local database experience. With all the hype around SQL ...

Update March 17, 2022: This post has been updated to remove mentions of SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters which has been retired. For more information, see big data options on the Microsoft SQL Server ...

The cloud is becoming increasingly distributed, with container technologies allowing easy deployment of what had been cloud functionality to devices at the edge of the network. What began with ...

Knowing how to automate tasks in the cloud will make you a more productive DBA. Here are the key concepts to understand about cloud scripting and a rundown of the best tools for automating code in ...

With the latest public preview available, it’s time to decide if you want to upgrade to Microsoft’s most cloud-connected version of SQL Server so far. Three decades on, SQL Server is still a database ...