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Feb 20, 2026
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Light up Multiple Databases with a Single API with Data API builder’s multi-source configuration

Jerry Nixon
Jerry Nixon

Data API builder (DAB) supports multi-source configurations Data API builder (DAB) connects to your database with a safe REST or GraphQL endpoint. But DAB is not limited to just one database. Using a multi-source configuration, you can connect to more than one database simultaneously. Learn more about Data API builder: https://aka.ms/dab/docs ...

Data API builderAzure SQL
Feb 18, 2026
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Federating Databases with Data API Builder Chaining

Jerry Nixon
Jerry Nixon

For decades, DBAs relied on linked servers to stitch data together. If you needed data from two places, you wired them up and moved on. It worked. It was straightforward. It felt native to SQL. But what if linked servers are not an option? What if policy blocks them? What if one of the systems is not SQL or lives in another cloud? How do you cross...

Azure SQLData API builderREST
Dec 1, 2025
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Data API builder’s “request-body-strict” Simplifies Client Code

Jerry Nixon
Jerry Nixon

Data API builder (DAB) provides REST and GraphQL endpoints over SQL Server, Azure Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Data Warehouse. The configuration value controls how REST endpoints treat unknown JSON properties in the payload: * When set to (default), unknown properties are rejected and an exception is thrown. * When set to , unknown...

Data API builder.NET
Aug 21, 2025
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Create embeddings in SQL Server 2025 RC0 with a local ONNX model on Windows

Brian Spendolini
Brian Spendolini

With the release of SQL Server 2025 RC0, we have enabled the ability to use a local ONNX model on the server for embeddings. This allows you to use these models without having any network traffic leaving the local environment. Getting Started This example guides you through setting up SQL Server 2025 on Windows with an ONNX runtime to enabl...

Azure SQLAIT-SQL
May 29, 2025
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Azure SQL Cryptozoology AI Embeddings Lab Now Available!

Brian Spendolini
Brian Spendolini

Missed out on MS Build 2025? No worries! Our lab is now available for your exploration. Dive into a unique cryptozoology experience using Azure SQL and Azure AI to uncover intriguing (and true) connections among cryptids worldwide. Curious about who would reign supreme in a battle royal or which regions of the world hold the key to encountering ...

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Feb 3, 2025
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Stored Procedure Caching in Data API builder Now Supported

Jerry Nixon
Jerry Nixon

Announcing Procedure Cache Data API builder (DAB) has long supported Level 1 cache for tables and views. Level 1 is an in-memory cache that automatically stores frequent queries or slow-changing data in the API layer, bypassing several database queries. Today, Data API builder (DAB) also supports Level 1 cache for stored procedures. This ...

Data API builder
Feb 13, 2024
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Build your APIs with DAB using Containers – Part 2

Carlos Robles
Carlos Robles

Are you tired of spending countless hours building APIs from scratch? With Data API builder (DAB), you can create your API in just minutes! All you need to do is create a JSON configuration file to describe your database entities (tables, views, stored procedures, or collections) from your Azure SQL Database, SQL Server, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, or M...

Azure SQLData API builder
Feb 12, 2024
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Using AI for Content Moderation with Azure SQL Database

Brian Spendolini
Brian Spendolini

In my previous posts, I have covered using Azure OpenAI services with Azure SQL Database via REST endpoints. This post with further explore that pathway by creating stored procedures you can use to encapsulate the REST calls and combine them with custom business logic for AI content moderation with Azure SQL Database. A Quick Introduction The ser...

Azure SQLAIOpenAI
Dec 12, 2023
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Build your APIs with DAB using Containers – Part 1

Carlos Robles
Carlos Robles

Are you tired of spending countless hours building APIs from scratch? With Data API Builder (DAB), you can create your API in just minutes! All you need to do is create a JSON configuration file to describe your database entities (tables, views, stored procedures, or collections) from your Azure SQL Database, SQL Server, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, or M...

Azure SQLData API builder
Nov 28, 2023
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Data API builder 0.9.7 Released

Davide Mauri
Davide Mauri

There has been a lot of news and exciting announcements in the past days and Data API builder now join the long list of releases that you don't want to miss. Version 0.9.7 introduces some interesting features, especially around observability and logging, to make it easier to figure out what's going on behind the scenes. Enable Application Insights...

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