New 5.0 release generates specifications and integration tests from the running application and modernizes databases to ...

Use the Microsoft Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) Driver for SQL Server to connect a Java application to SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, or SQL database in Fabric. This quickstart uses Maven to ...

Vector databases have graduated from experimental tooling to mission-critical infrastructure. In 2026, vector databases serve as the core retrieval layer for RAG pipelines, semantic search systems, ...

This article demonstrates creating a sample application that uses Java and JDBC to store and retrieve information in Azure SQL Database. JDBC is the standard Java API to connect to traditional ...

Welcome to the Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server project! The Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server is a Type 4 JDBC driver that provides database connectivity through the standard JDBC application ...

The Model Context Protocol (MCP), open-sourced by Anthropic in November 2024, has rapidly become the cross-cloud standard for connecting AI agents to tools, services, and data across the enterprise ...

In the previous article of this series, it was discussed how embeddings can be quickly created from data already in Azure SQL. This is a useful starting point, but since data in a database changes ...

Structured Query Language (SQL) is a standardized programming language that is used to manage relational databases and perform various operations on the data in them. Initially created in the 1970s, ...

AI is transforming everything we do, including how we interact with data. Data is the fuel for AI. Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL is the data platform to power today’s modern applications with ...

What is an RDBMS (relational database management system)? A relational database management system (RDBMS) is a collection of programs and capabilities that enable IT teams and others to create, update ...

The Spark connector for Azure SQL Database and SQL Server enables SQL databases, including Azure SQL Databases and SQL Server, to act as input data source or output data sink for Spark jobs. It allows ...