Welcome to SQL First, welcome to SQL! You’re going to like this. Upgrading from PostgreSQL is real work, and depending on your old PostgreSQL, that process can vary widely in complexity. You’re going to love the mindful and modern features of SQL. Take your time, make the most of the resources built to help you […]
In large scale AI clusters storage is responsible for delivering training data fast enough to keep accelerators busy and completing checkpoint saves and recoveries quickly enough to avoid costly stalls. MLPerf Storage is an industry-standard benchmark developed by MLCommons that reproduces the I/O patterns of different stages of AI pipelines covering training, checkpointing, context cache
Scaling AI Storage: Azure Managed Lustre excels in MLPerf Storage v3.0 Continue Reading
The following is a list of Active Directory Domain Services modules on Microsoft Learn sorted from introductory to advanced. Is there an Active Directory topic that isn’t listed here that you’d like to see covered? (AD CS modules are coming). If you know all this, remember we have the free 45 minute practical Active Directory
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When you need to move an entire database or move the objects in a database, bacpac and dacpac files often come up because of all of the tooling options to interact with them. Bacpac and dacpac files share some core similarities as well as some major differences in how they’re used in SqlPackage and other
Bacpac and Dacpac, the similarities and differences Continue Reading
If you administer Windows, you’re already aware of Windows Firewall. You might use it to allow an application, open a port, or block unwanted inbound traffic. But those familiar tasks only scratch the surface of what it can do. The Microsoft Learn module Understand advanced Windows Firewall takes you beyond basic rules and introduces Windows
If you’ve been building local prototypes, internal tools, web backends, or lightweight services on SQL Server Express, you know the routine: it’s free, familiar, and gets the job done – until you hit hardware limits or spend weekends manual backup scripts and handling OS patches. Learn how to upgrade from SQL Server Express to Azure
Outgrowing SQL Server Express? Upgrade to Azure SQL Database Free Tier in 3 Steps Continue Reading
Why production AI retrieval depends on more than vector index performance. It’s easy to think of AI retrieval as a vector search problem. For many developers, the first conversation starts with vector index benchmarks: How many queries per second can it handle? What’s the latency? What’s the recall? How well does it scale? Those metrics
Beyond Vector Indexes: Azure SQL Brings Optimizer Intelligence to Vector Search Continue Reading
Workflow automation scenarios—including grounding AI agents, verifying identities, assisting customers with documents in call centers, and triggering document-based workflows—depend on immediate content processing, where every second matters. Now in public preview, synchronous Read, Layout, and Digital Parse operations in Azure Content Understanding, part of Foundry Tools, deliver real-time content extraction without temporary service-side storage. Note:
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Hello Folks! If you have ever inherited a sprawling Azure environment and quietly wondered whether every VM, database, AKS cluster, and storage account in it is actually being backed up the way the business thinks it is, you are in good company. In session this session of the Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026, Bhavya Tadikonda
As app developers, our primary focus is building great user experiences, designing APIs, and shipping features quickly. What we don’t want is database friction—wasting hours configuring local DB instances, writing verbose migration scripts by hand, or worrying about unexpected cloud bills while prototyping. Today, we are making database development fast, intelligent, and completely free. By
Build Locally, Ship to Cloud for $0: Azure SQL for Modern App Developers Continue Reading
