⚡️ T‑SQL AI lands in Azure SQL and Microsoft Fabric
Developers can now tap T‑SQL AI functions directly in Azure SQL and SQL database in Microsoft Fabric. The public preview brings built‑in tools for embedding relational data into AI workflows — no external pipelines needed. A solid step toward making enterprise data instantly usable for AI applications.
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Developers can now tap T‑SQL AI functions directly in Azure SQL and SQL database in Microsoft Fabric. The public preview brings built‑in tools for embedding relational data into AI workflows — no external pipelines needed. A solid step toward making enterprise data instantly usable for AI applications.
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New T-SQL AI Features are now in Public Preview for Azure SQL and SQL database in Microsoft Fabric
At the start of this year, we released a new set of T-SQL AI features for embedding your relational data for AI applications. Today, we have brought those features to Azure SQL and SQL database in Microsoft Fabric. This post will help you get started using…
⚡️ Vector indexing lands in Azure SQL public preview
Microsoft brings DiskANN-based vector indexing to public preview across Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and Microsoft Fabric. It’s a major step toward native AI and RAG workloads in SQL — enabling developers to run high-speed similarity search and recommendations directly where their data lives.
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Microsoft brings DiskANN-based vector indexing to public preview across Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and Microsoft Fabric. It’s a major step toward native AI and RAG workloads in SQL — enabling developers to run high-speed similarity search and recommendations directly where their data lives.
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Public preview of vector indexing in Azure SQL DB, Azure SQL MI, and SQL database in Microsoft Fabric
Explore vector index DiskANN embeddings and their efficient use in Azure SQL for advanced semantic search and recommendations.
⚡️ SQL Server 2025 Adds Native Vector Support
SQL Server 2025 steps into the AI era with full native VECTOR data types and vector functions now live in the RTM release. Developers can store and run high-dimensional embeddings right inside their database—no more shuttling data between systems. A big leap for bringing AI workloads closer to where the data lives.
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SQL Server 2025 steps into the AI era with full native VECTOR data types and vector functions now live in the RTM release. Developers can store and run high-dimensional embeddings right inside their database—no more shuttling data between systems. A big leap for bringing AI workloads closer to where the data lives.
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SQL Server 2025 Embraces Vectors: setting the foundation for empowering your data with AI
Discover how SQL Server 2025 vector support released in RTM enhances data management with native VECTOR functions.
⚡️ Native Regex Arrives in SQL Server 2025
SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL now ship with native Regex support — finally bringing pattern matching straight into T-SQL. No more workarounds or CLR hacks: complex text queries can now run natively inside the engine, pushing SQL’s string processing into a more modern era.
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SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL now ship with native Regex support — finally bringing pattern matching straight into T-SQL. No more workarounds or CLR hacks: complex text queries can now run natively inside the engine, pushing SQL’s string processing into a more modern era.
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General Availability Announcement: Regex Support in SQL Server 2025 & Azure SQL
We’re excited to announce the General Availability (GA) of native Regex support in SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL — a long-awaited capability that brings powerful pattern matching directly into T-SQL. This release marks a significant milestone in modernizing…
⚡️ GitHub opens the era of agentic development
GitHub takes Copilot beyond code completion — turning it into a full platform for agentic development. With the new Agent HQ, teams can orchestrate AI agents with enterprise-grade observability, governance, and security; manage access, audit usage, and enforce policies across their entire stack.
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GitHub takes Copilot beyond code completion — turning it into a full platform for agentic development. With the new Agent HQ, teams can orchestrate AI agents with enterprise-grade observability, governance, and security; manage access, audit usage, and enforce policies across their entire stack.
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Azure DevOps and GitHub Repositories — Next Steps in the Path to Agentic AI
In May, we talked about the evolution of GitHub Copilot from a coding assistant into an AI powered peer programmer. Since then, GitHub has taken a major step forward – becoming an open platform for agentic development, where Agent HQ enables developers to…
⚡️ Microsoft redefines data with AI‑ready databases
Microsoft unveils the next generation of its data platforms — SQL Server 2025, Azure Document DB, Azure Horizon DB, and Fabric Databases — all rebuilt for an AI‑driven era. The lineup marks a shift toward unified, intelligent data architecture powering analytics, apps, and models across the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem.
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Microsoft unveils the next generation of its data platforms — SQL Server 2025, Azure Document DB, Azure Horizon DB, and Fabric Databases — all rebuilt for an AI‑driven era. The lineup marks a shift toward unified, intelligent data architecture powering analytics, apps, and models across the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem.
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Microsoft Databases and Microsoft Fabric: Your unified and AI-powered data estate | Microsoft Azure Blog
Read announcements from Azure Data at Microsoft Ignite 2025, including Azure HorizonDB, Fabric IQ, SQL Server 2025, Azure DocumentDB, Fabric Databases, and Fabric data agents.
⚡️ Azure Copilot Agents Redefine Cloud AI Operations
Microsoft introduces Azure Copilot agents and a new wave of AI infrastructure upgrades at Ignite 2025. The update brings deeper automation and integrated intelligence to modernize cloud operations — a clear step toward more autonomous and adaptive enterprise environments.
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Microsoft introduces Azure Copilot agents and a new wave of AI infrastructure upgrades at Ignite 2025. The update brings deeper automation and integrated intelligence to modernize cloud operations — a clear step toward more autonomous and adaptive enterprise environments.
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Announcing Azure Copilot agents and AI infrastructure innovations | Microsoft Azure Blog
Learn about the new AI features and products In Azure announced at Microsoft Ignite 2025 to help modernize your cloud infrastructure.
⚡️ Azure unleashes AI-driven cloud vision at Ignite 2025
At Microsoft Ignite 2025, Azure reshapes its cloud strategy with intelligence at every layer — from infrastructure to developer tools. The new wave of AI-powered solutions aims to help businesses redesign their tech architecture for a data-rich, adaptive era.
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At Microsoft Ignite 2025, Azure reshapes its cloud strategy with intelligence at every layer — from infrastructure to developer tools. The new wave of AI-powered solutions aims to help businesses redesign their tech architecture for a data-rich, adaptive era.
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Azure at Microsoft Ignite 2025: All the intelligent cloud news explained | Microsoft Azure Blog
Explore Azure announcements from Microsoft Ignite: AI-first strategies, agentic tools, and data innovations for the intelligent cloud.
⚡️ Microsoft Foundry reframes the AI agent stack
Microsoft introduces Foundry — a modular, secure platform for building interoperable AI agents. The move reframes agents from passive helpers into embedded collaborators integrated across daily workflows, signaling a structural shift in how software innovation scales.
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Microsoft introduces Foundry — a modular, secure platform for building interoperable AI agents. The move reframes agents from passive helpers into embedded collaborators integrated across daily workflows, signaling a structural shift in how software innovation scales.
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Build and scale AI agents with Microsoft Foundry
Discover Microsoft Foundry, including hosted agents, multi-agent workflows, agentic RAG, MCP tools, and agent observability. Learn more.
⚡️ Azure DocumentDB Hits General Availability
Microsoft’s Ignite 2025 opens with Azure DocumentDB graduating to General Availability. Built for MongoDB workloads, it promises more openness, flexibility, and sharper cost efficiency — signaling a clear step in Azure’s data strategy for modern, AI-driven cloud applications.
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Microsoft’s Ignite 2025 opens with Azure DocumentDB graduating to General Availability. Built for MongoDB workloads, it promises more openness, flexibility, and sharper cost efficiency — signaling a clear step in Azure’s data strategy for modern, AI-driven cloud applications.
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Announced at Ignite 2025: Azure DocumentDB, MCP Toolkit, Fleet Analytics, and more!
Announced at Ignite 2025: Azure DocumentDB, MCP Toolkit, faster vector search, Azure Cosmos DB SRE Agent, Fleet Analytics, and more! Learn more.
⚡️ Azure Developer CLI gains Container Apps GA
Azure Developer CLI’s November update lands with Container Apps now generally available, plus a new Extension Framework and layered provisioning in beta. It tightens integration across the Azure ecosystem, giving developers more control and modularity when shipping cloud-native apps.
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Azure Developer CLI’s November update lands with Container Apps now generally available, plus a new Extension Framework and layered provisioning in beta. It tightens integration across the Azure ecosystem, giving developers more control and modularity when shipping cloud-native apps.
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Azure Developer CLI (azd) Nov 2025 – Container Apps (GA), Layered Provisioning (Beta), Extension Framework, and Aspire 13
Explore the October 2025 release of the Azure Developer CLI. Discover new features in versions 1.20.1 through 1.21.2.
⚡️ Deploy AI Agents Straight from Azure CLI
Microsoft’s new azd AI agent extension lets developers push Foundry-based agents directly from their local environment. No more jumping between tools — build, test, and publish your AI agents using the same Azure Developer CLI workflow.
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Microsoft’s new azd AI agent extension lets developers push Foundry-based agents directly from their local environment. No more jumping between tools — build, test, and publish your AI agents using the same Azure Developer CLI workflow.
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Announcing the azd AI agent extension: Publish Microsoft Foundry agents directly from your development environment
Microsoft’s new Azure Developer CLI (azd) extension makes building and deploying AI agents easier. It streamlines resource setup, model management, and cloud publishing, letting you create and push agents to Microsoft Foundry directly from your development…
⚡️ GitHub Copilot brings AI-powered testing to .NET
GitHub Copilot now writes and runs unit tests for .NET projects directly in Visual Studio. The new Copilot Testing feature can auto‑generate, build, and execute tests across files, projects, or even full solutions — trimming hours off routine QA work and raising test coverage effortlessly.
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GitHub Copilot now writes and runs unit tests for .NET projects directly in Visual Studio. The new Copilot Testing feature can auto‑generate, build, and execute tests across files, projects, or even full solutions — trimming hours off routine QA work and raising test coverage effortlessly.
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Supercharge Your Test Coverage with GitHub Copilot Testing for .NET
Boost your testing workflow with GitHub Copilot testing for .NET, available now in Visual Studio. Automatically generate, build, and run high-quality unit tests for files, projects, or entire solutions.
⚡️ Blazor’s Unified Rendering Model Redefines .NET Web Apps
Blazor’s new unified rendering model—evolved through .NET 8, 9, and 10—gives developers a powerful balance between flexibility and performance. By merging server and client rendering into one core workflow, it simplifies interactive app development and brings a modern, consistent foundation for the .NET web stack.
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Blazor’s new unified rendering model—evolved through .NET 8, 9, and 10—gives developers a powerful balance between flexibility and performance. By merging server and client rendering into one core workflow, it simplifies interactive app development and brings a modern, consistent foundation for the .NET web stack.
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How Blazor's Unified Rendering Model Shapes Modern .NET Web Apps -- Visual Studio Magazine
Allen Conway explained how Blazor's render tree, component lifecycle, and modern rendering modes introduced in .NET 8 and refined in .NET 9 and .NET 10 give developers flexible, efficient options for building interactive web applications.
⚡️ Azure Cosmos DB gains AI search and agentic power
Azure Cosmos DB just took a major leap at Ignite 2025, adding vector and full‑text search, Semantic Reranking, and a new MCP Toolkit for agentic applications. Microsoft is turning its cloud database into a smarter, more autonomous data layer built for an AI‑driven era.
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Azure Cosmos DB just took a major leap at Ignite 2025, adding vector and full‑text search, Semantic Reranking, and a new MCP Toolkit for agentic applications. Microsoft is turning its cloud database into a smarter, more autonomous data layer built for an AI‑driven era.
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Azure Cosmos DB Adds New AI Search and Agentic Capabilities at Ignite -- Visual Studio Magazine
Microsoft expanded Azure Cosmos DB's AI capabilities at Ignite 2025, adding new vector and full-text search features, Semantic Reranking and an MCP Toolkit for agentic applications.
⚡️ Azure Cosmos DB adds Dynamic Data Masking
Azure Cosmos DB just gained a public preview of Dynamic Data Masking — a policy-driven feature that shields sensitive data on the server side. It lets teams enforce data privacy without touching app logic or rewriting queries, bringing enterprise-grade protection a step closer to default.
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Azure Cosmos DB just gained a public preview of Dynamic Data Masking — a policy-driven feature that shields sensitive data on the server side. It lets teams enforce data privacy without touching app logic or rewriting queries, bringing enterprise-grade protection a step closer to default.
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Announcing: Dynamic Data Masking for Azure Cosmos DB (Preview)
Announcing the public preview of Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) for Azure Cosmos DB—real-time, role-based masking of sensitive data with no app changes, simplifying compliance.
⚡️ ReSharper and Rider 2025.3 Get Key Stability Updates
JetBrains rolls out a second wave of fixes for ReSharper and Rider 2025.3, smoothing integration with Visual Studio 2026 and addressing long-standing warnings. The update focuses on better stability and performance for devs who rely on these core .NET tools every day.
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JetBrains rolls out a second wave of fixes for ReSharper and Rider 2025.3, smoothing integration with Visual Studio 2026 and addressing long-standing warnings. The update focuses on better stability and performance for devs who rely on these core .NET tools every day.
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⚡️ Azure Cosmos DB gets SRE Agent for smarter diagnostics
Microsoft introduces Azure Cosmos DB SRE Agent — a reliability toolkit designed to streamline troubleshooting and boost app stability. Built on Azure SRE Agent, it brings automated diagnostics to distributed systems, cutting the time engineers spend hunting performance issues across cloud workloads.
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Microsoft introduces Azure Cosmos DB SRE Agent — a reliability toolkit designed to streamline troubleshooting and boost app stability. Built on Azure SRE Agent, it brings automated diagnostics to distributed systems, cutting the time engineers spend hunting performance issues across cloud workloads.
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Use Azure SRE Agent with Azure Cosmos DB: Smarter Diagnostics for Your Applications
Unlock the potential of Azure Cosmos DB SRE Agent. Seamlessly integrate with Application Insights for deeper diagnostics.
⚡️ Azure Cosmos DB adds smart visibility to key rotation
Azure Cosmos DB introduces Account Key Usage Metadata — a feature offering real‑time insights into when each account key was last used. It helps teams rotate keys confidently, reducing the risk of accidental outages when critical apps still depend on an ‘unused’ key.
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Azure Cosmos DB introduces Account Key Usage Metadata — a feature offering real‑time insights into when each account key was last used. It helps teams rotate keys confidently, reducing the risk of accidental outages when critical apps still depend on an ‘unused’ key.
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Announcing Private Preview: Safe Account Key rotation using Account Key Usage Metadata
Discover how Azure Cosmos DB security and Account Key Usage Metadata can streamline key rotations and improve application reliability.
⚡️ Priority-Based Execution arrives in Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Cosmos DB now offers Priority-Based Execution in General Availability — a major boost for teams juggling mixed workloads. Developers can finally assign priorities to queries and operations, ensuring critical processes perform reliably even when resources are tight.
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Azure Cosmos DB now offers Priority-Based Execution in General Availability — a major boost for teams juggling mixed workloads. Developers can finally assign priorities to queries and operations, ensuring critical processes perform reliably even when resources are tight.
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General Availability: Priority-Based Execution in Azure Cosmos DB
Priority-Based Execution in Azure Cosmos DB keeps critical workloads fast by prioritizing them under load.
⚡️ How .NET Reinvented Its Build System
.NET has overhauled its build infrastructure once again — moving from a fragmented setup to a Unified Build system that slashes complexity and build times. The shift gives teams more control over how .NET releases are built, tested, and shipped — a crucial step toward faster, more predictable delivery cycles.
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.NET has overhauled its build infrastructure once again — moving from a fragmented setup to a Unified Build system that slashes complexity and build times. The shift gives teams more control over how .NET releases are built, tested, and shipped — a crucial step toward faster, more predictable delivery cycles.
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Reinventing how .NET Builds and Ships (Again)
An exploration of how .NET evolved from a distributed build system to Unified Build, dramatically reducing complexity and build times while improving flexibility and predictability for shipping .NET releases.