I've been thinking a lot lately about what it actually takes to make an AI agent genuinely useful for database work, both for administration and for application access to the data tier. Writing the ...

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has emerged as a pivotal framework in AI, significantly enhancing the accuracy and relevance of responses generated by large language models (LLMs) leveraging ...

AI coding agents have become one of the fastest-growing categories in enterprise software. In the span of just a few years, these development tools have evolved from simple autocomplete assistants ...

A team of AI researchers at Bloomberg have developed PExA, an agentic framework that achieved 70.2% execution accuracy, sharing one of the top positions on the Spider 2.0 (Snow) leaderboard, one of ...

It shouldn’t be a surprise that there’s a lot of Azure you can run on premises, thanks to platforms like Azure Stack. But there’s more to on-premises Azure than the familiar platforms and services.

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Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. Query Store is one of the most powerful database-scoped features in SQL Server for troubleshooting performance and improving the stability of your database ...

With the latest public preview available, it’s time to decide if you want to upgrade to Microsoft’s most cloud-connected version of SQL Server so far. Three decades on, SQL Server is still a database ...

This blog post is part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. Buffer Pool Parallel Scan is a new feature in SQL Server 2022 that improves the scalability of several common scenarios in SQL Server and as ...