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2026 62

  1. The paper that split the database in four: inside Azure SQL Database Hyperscale, aka Socrates
  2. Canada’s 2026 time zone updates: guidance for Microsoft SQL
  3. Try SqlClient’s new connection pool for faster parallel connections
  4. Upcoming SQL and AI Events to Put on Your Calendar
  5. PostgreSQL to SQL Field Notes: Connections
  6. Data API builder 2.1.5: JSON and Vector Data Type Support, and More
  7. DiskANN Vector Index and Vector Search Are Now Generally Available in Azure SQL
  8. What’s new across Microsoft SQL at SQLCon/FabCon Europe 2026
  9. How to build an app on Azure SQL with an AI coding agent
  10. MSSQL Extension for VS Code: New Getting Started Page, Agent skills, SQL Formatter, and more
  11. SQLAlchemy 2.1 brings built-in support for mssql-python
  12. Announcing the Public Preview of Local Time Zone Support in Azure SQL Database
  13. PostgreSQL to SQL Field Notes: Date & Time
  14. Coding agents are picking Azure SQL Database
  15. SQL Decomposition in a Nutshell
  16. Advocating for Uptime: The 6 Phases of Change
  17. Bacpac and Dacpac, the similarities and differences
  18. Try the new SqlClient and Retry connections natively
  19. New Azure SQL Foundations video series with GitHub samples
  20. Outgrowing SQL Server Express? Upgrade to Azure SQL Database Free Tier in 3 Steps
  21. MSSQL Extension for VS Code: SQL Formatter, Azure SQL Database Provisioning, and More
  22. The Two Hybrid Searches in Microsoft SQL
  23. Beyond Vector Indexes: Azure SQL Brings Optimizer Intelligence to Vector Search
  24. Your best friend: BlockOnPossibleDataLoss=True
  25. Build Locally, Ship to Cloud for $0: Azure SQL for Modern App Developers
  26. Refactor your database with SQL projects in VS Code
  27. Build locally, ship to Azure: meet Azure SQL Database container
  28. T-SQL Hygiene: Introducing the Covering Index
  29. T-SQL Hygiene: What’s the Big Deal with SET NOCOUNT ON?
  30. MSSQL Extension for VS Code: Shortcuts Configuration, Enhanced Results Grid Experience, and More
  31. Fundamentals of Azure DevOps with SQL projects
  32. Audit Frontier AI Agents with SQL MCP Server
  33. What’s new across Microsoft SQL in 2026 so far (SQL Server, Azure SQL, and SQL database in Fabric)
  34. Compose your API surface with Data API builder custom paths
  35. MSSQL Extension for VS Code: Azure SQL Database Provisioning and More
  36. SQL + AI, hands-on: Join a free workshop near you
  37. Regex support for LOB types in T-SQL—available in Azure SQL & SQL Server 2025
  38. Considering NL2SQL? Should your database really be the prompt? How can SQL MCP Server help?
  39. Microsoft SQL Security Across the MAESTRO Stack: Building Secure Agentic AI with Defense-in-Depth
  40. Generate Embeddings Function and External Model Object Support Are Now Generally Available in Azure SQL
  41. SQL MCP Server as an App Service
  42. Azure Data Studio is retired: Move your Azure SQL workflow to VS Code in 10 minutes
  43. The Polyglot tax – Part 4
  44. Introducing SQL MCP Server
  45. The Polyglot tax – Part 3
  46. SQL code analysis in VS Code: Configure rules without editing your project file
  47. Manage SQL database schemas in VS Code: Publish dialog and item templates
  48. DiskANN Vector Index Improvements
  49. MSSQL Extension for VS Code: SQL Notebooks, AI-Powered Schema Design, Data API builder & More
  50. The Polyglot tax – Part 2
  51. What questions will you ask your data agent?
  52. The Polyglot Tax
  53. MSSQL Extension for VS Code: Query Profiler, ADS Migration Toolkit & More
  54. Light up Multiple Databases with a Single API with Data API builder’s multi-source configuration
  55. Federating Databases with Data API Builder Chaining
  56. Dear Copilot, can you help me with SQL?
  57. Build Intelligent Apps with SQL: Join the SQL + AI Datathon
  58. Time Travel in Azure SQL with Temporal Tables
  59. Masking Sensitive Data in Azure SQL
  60. Enable Soft Delete in Azure SQL
  61. Introducing Budget Bytes: Build Powerful AI Apps for Under $25
  62. Semantic Reranking with Azure SQL, SQL Server 2025 and Cohere Rerank models

2025 59

  1. Data API builder’s “request-body-strict” Simplifies Client Code
  2. MSSQL Extension for VS Code: Introducing Edit Data (Public Preview)
  3. New T-SQL AI Features are now in Public Preview for Azure SQL and SQL database in Microsoft Fabric
  4. MSSQL Extension for VS Code: GitHub Copilot Chat GA and New Public Previews for Edit Data, Data-tier Application, and more
  5. Public preview of vector indexing in Azure SQL DB, Azure SQL MI, and SQL database in Microsoft Fabric
  6. SQL Server 2025 Embraces Vectors: setting the foundation for empowering your data with AI
  7. General Availability Announcement: Regex Support in SQL Server 2025 & Azure SQL
  8. Build an AI Agentic RAG search application with React, SQL Azure and Azure Static Web Apps
  9. Data API builder 1.6: Advanced Behaviors with Special HTTP Headers
  10. Data API builder 1.6: Flexible Logging for Every Developer
  11. Using the new SqlVector type with EF Core and Dapper
  12. SQL Server 2025 RC1: faster DiskANN and FP16 support
  13. MSSQL Extension for VS Code: Fabric Integration and GitHub Copilot Slash Commands (Public Preview)
  14. AI-based T-SQL Refactoring: an automatic intelligent code optimization with Azure OpenAI
  15. Using SQL Server’s new AI features and Python to create a T-SQL assistant
  16. Create embeddings in SQL Server 2025 RC0 with a local ONNX model on Windows
  17. MSSQL Extension for VS Code: Schema Compare, Schema Designer, Local SQL Server Container GA
  18. Updated .NET and JDBC Drivers with Native Vector Data Support for High-Performance AI Workload
  19. Announcing General Availability of UNISTR function and ANSI SQL || Operator in Azure SQL
  20. MSSQL Extension for VS Code: Agent Mode Updates, Colored Connections, and Schema Designer Enhancements
  21. Announcing General Availability of Native Vector Type & Functions in Azure SQL
  22. MSSQL Extension for VS Code: Local Containers, GitHub Copilot Agent Mode and Connection Groups
  23. SQL Server 2025 CTP 2.1: DiskANN Improvements
  24. An open-source AutoScaler for Azure SQL Hyperscale Elastic Pools
  25. A story of collaborating agents: chatting with your database the right way
  26. Azure SQL Cryptozoology AI Embeddings Lab Now Available!
  27. Vector Support Public Preview now extended to Azure SQL MI
  28. Getting started with AI in SQL Server 2025 on Windows
  29. New AI Features in SQL Server 2025
  30. MSSQL Extension for VS Code: Introducing Schema Designer (Preview)
  31. Announcing the General Availability (GA) of JSON data type & JSON aggregates…
  32. Unlocking the Power of Regex in SQL Server
  33. MSSQL Extension for VS Code: New UI Goes GA and GitHub Copilot Enters Preview
  34. Avoid T-SQL anti-patterns with the free T-SQL analysis tool
  35. Efficiently and Elegantly Modeling Embeddings in Azure SQL and SQL Server
  36. MSSQL Extension for VS Code: Introducing Schema Compare (Preview)
  37. Predictable LLM results with Structured Output and sp_invoke_external_rest_endpoint
  38. Enhancing Search Capabilities in SQL Server and Azure SQL with Hybrid Search and RRF Re-Ranking
  39. SQL Conf() 2025 Highlights: So Much Developer Innovation!
  40. Secure APIs with Data API Builder, Keycloak, and SQL Server
  41. Vector Search with Azure SQL, Semantic Kernel and Entity Framework Core
  42. Build a Streamlit application with Fabric SQL Database
  43. Exploring SQL Server Integration with .NET Aspire: A Collection of Hands-On Samples
  44. MSSQL Extension for VS Code: What’s new and what’s next
  45. Exciting new T-SQL features: Regex support, Fuzzy string-matching, and bigint support in DATEADD – preview
  46. Go passwordless when calling Azure OpenAI from Azure SQL using Managed Identities
  47. Building an AI App GraphQL Endpoint with SQL DB in Fabric
  48. Database and AI: solutions for keeping embeddings updated
  49. External REST Endpoint Invocation in Azure SQL Managed Instance is now in Public Preview
  50. .NET Aspire and Data API builder with the Community Toolkit
  51. Azure Data Studio Retirement
  52. Storing, querying and keeping embeddings updated: options and best practices
  53. Stored Procedure Caching in Data API builder Now Supported
  54. Hot Reload in Data API builder Now Available
  55. Introducing Change Event Streaming: Join the Azure SQL Database Private Preview for Change Data Streaming
  56. Improve the “R” in RAG and embrace Agentic RAG in Azure SQL
  57. Extending Regular Expressions (Regex) Support on Azure SQL Managed Instance (MI)
  58. SQL Server Native Vector Search for .NET Developers
  59. Building a RAG-Based Smart Memory Application with Azure SQL Database

2024 35

  1. Embedding models and dimensions: optimizing the performance to resource-usage ratio
  2. Azure SQL ❤️ Python!
  3. Introducing the enhanced MSSQL Extension for Visual Studio Code
  4. Announcing LangChain integration for your SQL-based AI applications
  5. Build AI apps faster and easier with SQL database in Fabric – now Public Preview!
  6. RAG with SQL Vector Store: A Low-Code/No-Code Approach using Azure Logic Apps
  7. Exciting Announcement: Public Preview of Native Vector Support in Azure SQL Database!
  8. Soccer Analytics Copilot with Azure SQL and OpenAI
  9. The ultimate chatbot?
  10. Smart Resume Matching: Document RAG with Azure SQL DB & Document Intelligence
  11. Build a chatbot on your own data in 1 hour with Azure SQL, Langchain and Chainlit
  12. EAP for Vector Support Refresh – Introducing Vector type
  13. Vector Support EAP extended to Azure SQL MI
  14. Retrieval Augmented Generation with Azure SQL
  15. Simplify development with Dev Container templates for Azure SQL Database
  16. Similarity Search with FAISS and Azure SQL
  17. Building Course Registration Project with Azure SQL Database
  18. Unleashing the Potential of Generative AI in Azure SQL Database
  19. Announcing UNISTR and || operator in Azure SQL Database – preview
  20. Announcing EAP for Vector Support in Azure SQL Database
  21. What’s a Vector Anyway?
  22. Coding at the Speed of Innovation: AI and more with Azure SQL Database
  23. Data API builder becomes Generally Available
  24. Private Preview for External REST Endpoint Invocation with Azure SQL Managed Instance
  25. Data API builder Version 0.11 Brings In-Memory Caching
  26. Vector Search Optimization via KMeans, Voronoi Cells and Inverted File Index (aka “Cell-Probing”)
  27. Vanna.ai and Azure SQL Database
  28. Introducing Regular Expression (Regex) Support in Azure SQL DB
  29. Empowering the SQLBits website with Azure SQL and Data API Builder
  30. Azure SQL Trigger Binding for Azure Functions goes GA
  31. NL2SQL with LangChain and Azure SQL Database
  32. Build highly scalable, AI-ready applications on Azure SQL Database Hyperscale
  33. Build your APIs with DAB using Containers – Part 2
  34. Using AI for Content Moderation with Azure SQL Database
  35. Chat with your data in Azure SQL Database

2023 35

  1. Relationship Advice from Data API builder
  2. Build your APIs with DAB using Containers – Part 1
  3. Winter 2023 Service Update for External REST Endpoint Invocation
  4. Data API builder 0.9.7 Released
  5. Announcing New Lower Price Tier for Cloud Native Applications on Azure SQL
  6. Vector Search with Azure SQL Database
  7. Azure SQL Database Elastic Jobs preview refresh
  8. Build your API with DAB. Build your client with Kiota!
  9. OpenAPI for your Azure SQL database
  10. How I built a session recommender in 1 hour using Open AI
  11. Creating a Kubernetes Application for Azure SQL Database
  12. New Azure SQL Database free offer
  13. Generate images with Azure OpenAI Service (DALL-E) and Azure SQL Database
  14. Data API builder Now Supports ENV Files
  15. Using OpenAI REST Endpoints with Azure SQL Database
  16. REST Endpoint Invocation is now Generally Available
  17. Building your own DB Copilot for Azure SQL with Azure OpenAI GPT-4
  18. Summer 2023 Update for Azure SQL Database External REST Endpoint Invocation
  19. How to export Azure SQL Managed Instance data into Fabric Lakehouse
  20. How to copy data from Azure SQL Managed Instance to Microsoft Fabric DW
  21. Vector Similarity Search with Azure SQL database and OpenAI
  22. Model your Supply Chain in a Graph Database | Part 4
  23. Model your Supply Chain in a Graph Database | Part 3
  24. Model your Supply Chain in a Graph Database | Part 2
  25. Model your Supply Chain in a Graph Database | Part 1
  26. Implement Change Data Streams with Azure SQL Database, Change Tracking, and Azure SQL Bindings
  27. Change Tracking in Azure SQL Database
  28. Using Ledger in Azure SQL Database
  29. Make data more human with Azure OpenAI and Azure SQL
  30. Data API Builder Quickstart Demo from VS Live Vegas
  31. Data API builder for Azure SQL Databases – Public Preview
  32. Getting Started with Azure SQL Bindings: Part 1
  33. Using Python and Azure Functions to send data from Azure SQL Database
  34. CTEs, Views or Temp Tables?
  35. Development with SQL in containers on macOS

2022 15

  1. Developing with Azure SQL bindings and Azure SQL trigger for Azure Functions
  2. Connecting the Dots of Azure SQL CICD Part 3: Testing with tSQLt
  3. Azure SQL Database External REST Endpoints Integration Public Preview
  4. Maximizing Azure SQL Database performance with a globally distributed Redis write-behind cache
  5. Connecting the Dots of Azure SQL CICD Part 2: Local Development
  6. Connecting the Dots of Azure SQL CICD Part 1: Getting Started
  7. Announcing JSON Enhancements in Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance and SQL Server 2022
  8. Announcing the “Azure SQL Database External REST Endpoints Integration” Early Adoption Program
  9. Azure SQL Database Change Stream with Debezium
  10. Create and connect to an Azure SQL DB in 6 easy steps
  11. Announcing General Availability of Change Data Capture (CDC) on Azure SQL Database
  12. Build GraphQL apps with Hasura and Azure SQL Database
  13. Create REST API in Python with Django, using the Django REST Framework and Azure SQL
  14. Saving Bot Activities in Azure SQL Database
  15. Automatic GraphQL and REST endpoint for Azure SQL with Directus

2021 9

  1. Modern application development with Prisma, GraphQL (or REST) and Azure SQL
  2. LAUNCH: Build serverless, full stack applications in Azure
  3. Dev life is easy with node-mssql
  4. Introducing Configurable Retry Logic in Microsoft.Data.SqlClient v3.0.0-Preview1
  5. Considerations of Data Partitioning on Spark during Data Loading on Clustered Columnstore Index
  6. The “insert if not exists” challenge: a solution
  7. The Positive Impact of Intelligent Query Processing
  8. Solving the River Crossing problem with SQL Graph
  9. Modern development: creating a REST API, via CI/CD and back

2020 36

  1. Seasons of Serverless Challenge 3: Azure TypeScript Functions and Azure SQL Database serverless
  2. Programmatically parsing Transact SQL (T-SQL) with the ScriptDom parser
  3. Azure SQL can read Azure Data Lake storage files using Synapse SQL external tables
  4. Using an Azure Container Instance to convert a BAK to BACPAC for Import into Azure SQL Database
  5. Autoscaling with Azure SQL Hyperscale
  6. Seasons of Serverless Challenge 1: Azure Functions and Azure SQL Database serverless
  7. Continuous Delivery for Azure SQL DB using Azure DevOps Multi-stage Pipelines
  8. Testing performance of Azure SQL Database as a key-value store
  9. Serverless Streaming At Scale with Azure SQL
  10. Optimize storage usage for large volumes of IoT data with Azure SQL
  11. Ingest millions of events per second on Azure SQL leveraging Shock Absorber pattern
  12. Build your full-PaaS IoT solution with Azure SQL Database
  13. Running 1M databases on Azure SQL for a large SaaS provider: Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform.
  14. Resources to become a Well-Rounded Full-Stack Developer
  15. Promises, Node, Tedious, Azure SQL. Oh My!
  16. TodoMVC Full Stack with Azure Static Web Apps, Node and Azure SQL
  17. Fast loading data into Azure SQL: a lesson learned.
  18. Serverless REST API with Azure Functions, Node, JSON and Azure SQL
  19. Practical Azure SQL Database for Modern Developers
  20. Azure SQL & .bacpac the easy way
  21. Developing in the cloud with SQL Server Big Data Clusters: Run and Monitor Apps
  22. Developing in the cloud with SQL Server Big Data Clusters: Develop and Deploy Apps
  23. Azure SQL for Beginners – Video Playlist
  24. Developing in the cloud with SQL Server Big Data Clusters: Getting Started
  25. Architecting REST API with Python, Flask and Azure SQL
  26. Preview of Azure Arc enabled SQL Server is now available
  27. Querying and visualizing data using SQLPad
  28. Use Linked server to Synapse SQL to implement Polybase-like scenarios in Managed Instance
  29. Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 2.0.0 is now available
  30. Go Azure SQL!
  31. JSON in your Azure SQL Database? Let’s benchmark some options!
  32. Improve JDBC application reliability with Azure SQL and connection pooling
  33. Optimize Azure SQL Upsert scenarios
  34. DevOps for Azure SQL
  35. Join us: Azure SQL at Microsoft Build 2020
  36. 10 reasons to use Azure SQL in your next project