Azure SQL Devs’ Corner

Build your APIs with DAB using Containers – Part 1

December 12, 2023 Dec 12, 2023 12/12/23

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...

Winter 2023 Service Update for External REST Endpoint Invocation

November 30, 2023 Nov 30, 2023 11/30/23

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 ...

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 ...

Announcing New Lower Price Tier for Cloud Native Applications on Azure SQL

November 15, 2023 Nov 15, 2023 11/15/23

Asad Khan

(image) Today we are announcing a new pricing tier for Azure SQL Database targeted at developers building cloud native applications. It is based on Azure SQL Database Hyperscale tier, which offers awesome cloud scalability with one of the lowest TCO in the industry. Azure SQL Database Hyperscale delivers outstanding performance and ...

Vector Search with Azure SQL Database

November 15, 2023 Nov 15, 2023 11/15/23

Muazma Zahid

With public preview of integrated vectorization, a ground-breaking capability of vector search in Azure AI Search (previously Azure Cognitive Search), you can do vector search with data stored in Azure SQL Database easily. This feature is designed to streamline the process of chunking, generating, storing, and querying vectors for vector ...

Azure SQL Database Elastic Jobs preview refresh

November 8, 2023 Nov 8, 2023 11/8/23

Srini Acharya

We are very excited to announce a significant “refresh” to the current Azure SQL Database Elastic Jobs preview! This refresh brings several new capabilities that were highly requested by our customers during the current preview.  Main new capabilities added in this refresh include:  Azure portal has also been ...

Build your API with DAB. Build your client with Kiota!

October 27, 2023 Oct 27, 2023 10/27/23

Jerry Nixon (SQL)

Project Kiota is a code generation engine from Microsoft that reads the OpenAPI specification emitted from any REST endpoint and then creates reusable client code in CSharp, Go, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, Swift, and TypeScript. Kiota is a byproduct of Microsoft Graph, a sophisticated REST endpoint that required developers to write boilerplate ...

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...

How I built a session recommender in 1 hour using Open AI

October 18, 2023 Oct 18, 2023 10/18/23

Davide Mauri

As a developer, I often attend conferences to learn new skills and network with other professionals. However, conferences can be overwhelming, especially when they offer dozens of sessions on different topics. How can I decide which ones are worth my time and attention? That's why I decided to use OpenAI to create a tool that can help me ...

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 ...