Abstract: Recent large language models (LLMs) face increasing inference latency as input context length and model size grow. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) exacerbates this by significantly ...

Abstract: Generating accurate SQL from users’ natural language questions (text-to-SQL) remains a long-standing challenge due to the complexities involved in user question understanding, database ...

Microsoft used its annual conference to roll out sweeping updates across Managed Instance, Cosmos DB, Fabric, PostgreSQL and SQL Server tooling, signaling broad investments in performance, scalability ...

We’re excited to announce a new migration capability in Azure Arc to simplify and accelerate SQL Server migration. This new capability, now generally available, is powered by Azure Database Migration ...

Microsoft has rolled out a redesigned continuous migration assessment tool for SQL Server enabled by Azure Arc. The new experience is now generally available and brings a more streamlined, ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana will allow customers to create and edit Grafana dashboards directly in the Azure portal without any additional cost and little administrative overhead. Users will ...

DBeaver is a free, open-source, cross-platform SQL client and database administration tool. It is designed to support a wide variety of SQL and NoSQL databases, including MySQL and PostgreSQL. Its key ...

ACES and OpenColorIO are the industry standard tools for color management in the VFX industry. It’s now been two years since I began writing about color management, and during that time After Effects ...

Microsoft unveiled .NET Aspire at the Build 2024 developer conference, describing it as an opinionated, cloud-ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed, cloud-native ...

Microsoft has made a lot of big bets in its preferred cloud-native infrastructure. You only need to look at .NET Aspire and Radius to see how the company thinks you should be designing and building ...