Database, Analytics, and AI/ML

New! Is Copilot Search the Next Generation of Enterprise Search? October 13, 2025 Copilot Search is the default in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app for licensed users, potentially...more New! Understanding Copilot Studio Updated: October 12, 2025 Copilot Studio supports generative AI to reduce development effort and give agents advanced capabilities. Agents...more Understanding Copilot for SharePoint October 7, 2025 Copilot for SharePoint can reduce the effort of managing Web pages but does not offer...more Copilot Studio Benefits and Risks Updated: October 5, 2025 Copilot Studio is a low-code tool for building natural language assistants called agents that help...more Azure Data Studio Is Retiring: What You Need to Do and When September 13, 2025 Azure Data Studio, long touted as the future for data management in Azure, will be...more SQL Server Management Studio Update Will Integrate GitHub Copilot Updated: September 12, 2025 A new version of SQL Server Management Studio brings the most significant updates to the...more How to Track Azure Hybrid Benefit Use Rights for SQL Server Updated: September 8, 2025 Customers are responsible for ensuring they have the proper licenses to keep their Azure Hybrid...more SQL Data Sync’s Retirement Highlights the Future of Azure SQL Offerings September 4, 2025 Azure SQL Data Sync is retiring in Sept. 2027 with no explanation or straightforward migration...more Improving Data Analysis with Microsoft Analyst Agent August 26, 2025 Microsoft Analyst can accelerate complex data analysis to deliver insights using a small reasoning model...more HDInsight Stagnates: Time to Migrate August 9, 2025 HDInsight’s future is looking bleak as Microsoft abandons a major upgrade and retires key security...more Microsoft Researcher Agent Can Speed Decision-Making, But Check Your Work August 8, 2025 Microsoft Researcher can accelerate complex decision-making by using deep reasoning and retrieval across business and...more How to Choose Azure SQL Configurations That Meet Requirements and Control Costs August 5, 2025 Azure SQL services can host SQL Server databases using the same SQL Server database engine...more Azure AI Content Safety: Pricing July 31, 2025 AI Content Safety helps developers protect generative AI applications from misuse by malicious actors. Pricing...more The Data Factory Showdown: Azure vs. Fabric July 28, 2025 Azure Data Factory and Fabric Data Factory are distinct offerings with unique capabilities and purposes....more How Azure AI Content Safety Protects AI Systems from Bad Actors Updated: July 26, 2025 Azure AI Content Safety provides several capabilities intended to safeguard generative AI applications from malicious...more Understanding SharePoint Agents July 24, 2025 SharePoint agents can empower users with default and custom low-code AI solutions for SharePoint sites....more

GitHub Copilot Tier Comparison June 3, 2025 Navigating Microsoft’s Copilots Updated: May 11, 2025

  Product Reference AI Services Azure AI Services are a collection of cloud services enabling developers to add specific artificial...more   Product Reference Data Explorer Azure Data Explorer is a cloud service that helps query and analyze large-scale data streams,...more   Product Reference Event Hubs Azure Event Hubs provides a brokering service for streaming data that is compatible with Apache...more   Product Reference Power BI Power BI, a part of Microsoft Fabric, is Microsoft’s primary data visualization offering. It contains...more   Product Reference AI Foundry Azure AI Foundry is a Web-based development tool for professional developers to create, test, and...more   Product Reference Microsoft 365 Copilot Microsoft 365 Copilot is Microsoft’s AI-based productivity service for organizations featuring chat, search, and image...more   Product Reference Databricks Azure Databricks is an Azure cloud service based on Databricks technology, a third-party offering that...more   Product Reference SQL Database   Product Reference SQL Managed Instance Azure SQL Managed Instance is a PaaS database management offering designed for organizations seeking a...more   Product Reference Database Services for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB Azure database services for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB (retired) are based on community editions of...more   Product Reference Cosmos DB Azure Cosmos DB is a multimodal database service that supports multiple data formats and open...more   Product Reference Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra is a PaaS service that uses a native Cassandra...more   Product Reference Azure Data Factory Azure Data Factory (ADF) is a cloud extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that helps...more   Product Reference Stream Analytics Azure Stream Analytics is a high-speed data stream event processing solution available as a cloud...more   Product Reference Database Migration Service Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) offers computing resources, orchestration features, assessment and testing tools, and...more   Product Reference SQL Edge Azure SQL Edge is a small-footprint deployment option for SQL Server that runs in a...more

Database, Analytics, and AI/ML Roadmap

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