Analysts say Redmond still has billions of reasons to keep backing its flagship DBMS, even as Azure, Postgres, and AI hog the ...

SQL Server 2025 + Azure SQL Database — AI Resources A curated collection of resources, demos, and field guidance covering AI capabilities in and around SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL Database — native ...

An interactive proof-of-concept that runs native search in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL over a contract-management corpus of agreements / envelopes. It demonstrates the search capabilities a search ...

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SQL Server 2025 introduces the ability to register external AI models (like Azure OpenAI). This lets you call embeddings directly from T‑SQL. You define a model reference with its provider, dimensions ...

On the first day of Microsoft Build 2026 in San Francisco, Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure HorizonDB, a fully managed PostgreSQL-compatible database rebuilt from the ground up for ...

Built on SQL Server's best-in-class security, performance and availability, SQL Server 2025 empowers you to accelerate AI using your own data, securely and at enterprise scale. It supports hybrid ...

Accelerate your AI application's time to market by harnessing the power of your data and the built-in AI capabilities of SQL Server 2025, the enterprise database with best-in-class security, ...

Model Context Protocol (MCP) has gained considerable momentum as a standard connector between LLM-powered tools and local systems, internal and external APIs, and data sources. From major clouds to ...

The service could make it simpler and cheaper to develop grounded applications by reducing the need for custom web-search infrastructure, analysts say. For the past two years, enterprises have focused ...

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The 12-month tier includes Azure Virtual Machines (750 hours per month) and Azure SQL Database, which expire after a year. The always-free services (including Azure Functions, Cosmos DB, and Container ...