Microsoft’s latest push turns PostgreSQL on Azure from a reliable cloud RDBMS into a full-fledged platform for AI-ready applications — and it’s doing so across three fronts: developer ergonomics, in-database AI capabilities, and a new, scale-out service aimed at AI-native workloads. The...
Microsoft Digital’s Employee Productivity Engineering (EPE) team faced a deceptively simple-sounding question with outsized implications: should we build on Microsoft Dataverse — the low-code data platform native to the Power Platform — or rely on Microsoft SQL Server and its mature relational...
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Microsoft’s first Release Candidate (RC0) for SQL Server 2025 is here, and it’s more than a stability checkpoint—it’s a statement of direction that blends built-in AI, developer‑friendly T‑SQL, and secure‑by‑default networking into a single, on‑premises database platform that looks and feels...