It’s time to switch to a new development tool for SQL Server and Azure SQL. Here’s how to get started with the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code. Microsoft recently ended support for Azure Data ...

Data API builder (DAB) is an open-source, no-code tool that creates secure, full-featured REST and GraphQL endpoints for your database. It’s a CRUD data API engine that runs in a container—on Azure, ...

Managing a modern enterprise data landscape in 2026 is a lot like running a high-speed, global railway network. You have massive freight trains of legacy data leaving on-premise servers in Mumbai, ...

Quick Summary Struggling to unify customer data and deliver more personalised experiences? Discover the 10 best customer data platforms (CDPs) for enterprises in 2026 that help collect, integrate, and ...

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Which feature in SQL Server and Azure Synapse Analytics lets you run T-SQL queries against external data stores and makes those external sources appear as tables in a SQL database?

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. These DP-100 questions are focused on commonly misunderstood Azure Machine Learning concepts. If ...

Microsoft’s declarative REST and GraphQL API design tool supports MySQL and Postgres as well as Azure databases and works anywhere you can run a Docker container. Microsoft Azure is now so big it’s ...

We describe the Dimensions Search Language (DSL), a domain-specific language for bibliographic and scientometrics analysis. The DSL is the main component of the Dimensions API (version 2.12.0), which ...

Do we generate APIs directly from our data source with a tool like Data API Builder (DAB)? Or do we invest in a custom API layer with ORM, controllers, and business logic?

We’re in a hinge moment for AI. The experiments are over and the real work has begun. Centralizing data, once the finish line, is now the starting point. The definition of “AI readiness” is evolving ...

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