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Welcome to this month’s Azure Functions newsletter! We’ll share the latest news for Azure Functions here on the Apps on Azure blog.
Azure Functions monthly community live stream
Our next live stream is on September 19, 2023 a… Continue reading Azure Functions Newsletter – September 2023
SQL Server’s INT data type, by design, provides a range from -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647. But often, developers only utilize the positive range for primary keys and other identifier fields, effectively wasting half of its potential. What if we coul… Continue reading Lesson Learned #429:Leveraging the Full Range SQL Server INT Data Type: Negative and Positive Values
A common practice for implementing the retrieval step in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications is to use vector search. This approach finds relevant passages using semantic similarity. We fully support this pattern in Azure Cognitive Search… Continue reading Azure Cognitive Search: Outperforming vector search with hybrid retrieval and ranking capabilities
On behalf of our engineering and product management teams, we are excited to announce the general availability of short-term backup retention up to 35 days in the Hyperscale tier of Azure SQL Database. Before this improvement, Hyperscale supported back… Continue reading Announcing General Availability of SQL Database Hyperscale short-term backup retention up to 35 days
Multi-tenant environments add an additional layer of complexity to today’s ever-evolving threat landscape. Whether organizations have grown through acquisition, or have strategically implemented multi-tenant setups, navigating across multiple environme… Continue reading Respond to threats across tenants more effectively with Microsoft 365 Defender multi-tenant support
On behalf of our engineering and product management teams, we are excited to announce the general availability of long-term backup retention (LTR) in the Hyperscale tier of Azure SQL Database.
Many applications have regulatory, compliance, or ot… Continue reading Announcing General Availability of SQL Database Hyperscale long-term backup retention
We are excited to announce that Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 Extended Security Updates (ESUs) enabled by Azure Arc is now Generally Available. Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 are going End of Support on October 10, 2023. With ESUs, customers who are… Continue reading Generally Available: Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 Extended Security Updates enabled by Azure Arc
Hello Windows Insiders,
Today we are beginning to roll out an update for the Paint app to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels (version 11.2308.18.0 or higher). With this update, we are introducing support for layers and transparency!
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