As developers look to harness the power of AI in their applications, one of the most exciting advancements is the ability to enrich existing databases with semantic understanding through vector search ...

Microsoft introduced a series of data services enhancements at its Microsoft Ignite virtual conference on Nov. 2. Among the new data services is a preview of SQL Server 2022. SQL Server had its last ...

Other database updates include the availability of an Azure Database for PostgreSQL extension for Azure AI and the addition of Copilot capabilities to Azure SQL DB. Microsoft released multiple updates ...

Cosmos DB also provides a variety of data models for storing data and APIs so that you can access your data as if it were SQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, Gremlin, Spark, etcd, or Table (of the wide-column ...

Microsoft Build (stylized as "//build/") – Redmond's annual developer-focused conference – kicks off today in Seattle. There's tons of news coming out of this event; my ZDNet colleagues Mary Jo Foley ...

Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed distributed database that can be transparently replicated across regions while remaining highly performant and seamlessly scaling ...

“We want this to be the database of the future and to last for many decades to come,” Microsoft Technical Fellow Dharma Shukla told me when we talked about Cosmos DB, the new globally distributed ...