Microsoft has announced a private preview of Copilot for SQL Azure, which offers a natural language for SQL conversion and self-help for database administration.

Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Azure SQL Database External REST Endpoint Integration – an ability to call a REST endpoint natively from Azure SQL Database.

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 ...

With Azure AI Agent Service, agents can interpret user intent, plan tasks, and invoke database logic, like vector search or semantic filtering, without manual SQL input. This enables conversational ...

You can scan a wide variety of Azure data sources (such as Azure SQL DB, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lakes, and Azure Cosmos DB) and tons of different structured file formats (JSON, Parquet, CSV, ...

Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose is "a tier of Microsoft's relational database service, based on SQL Server, that operates like an on-premises SQL Server instance," Snodgrass explained ...

Users also get the Query Store hints that database developers can already use to tell in Azure SQL DB and Managed SQL Instances to help speed up queries without rewriting them.

Microsoft’s Bradley Ball dives into the inner workings of SQL Server indexing to help developers and DBAs speak the same ...

Azure Resource Manager (ARM), the control plane responsible for provisioning and managing cloud-based services such as Azure VMs and Azure SQL Database, is expanding its capabilities to support ...