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Building Course Registration Project with Azure SQL Database

June 11, 2024 Jun 11, 2024 06/11/24
authorsAnagha Todalbagi, Kendall Hoffman
This semester long project was completed by Master's students at Cornell University with mentorship from the Azure SQL database product team at Microsoft.   Project Mission The purpose of this project is to design a high-fidelity university course registration system utilizing Microsoft Azure cloud services. Our target audience ...

Data API builder becomes Generally Available

May 15, 2024 May 15, 2024 05/15/24
Jerry Nixon
Announcing Data API builder General Availability On May 15th, Data API builder becomes Generally Available. Data API builder for Azure SQL Databases – Generally Available (image) It’s been a long road, getting from there to here. Nearly three years ago, Data API builder began as just a dream. How can we reduce the friction for ...

Build your APIs with DAB using Containers – Part 2

February 13, 2024 Feb 13, 2024 02/13/24
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...

Data API builder 0.9.7 Released

November 28, 2023 Nov 28, 2023 11/28/23
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 ...

OpenAPI for your Azure SQL database

October 24, 2023 Oct 24, 2023 10/24/23
Davide Mauri
A recent and exciting feature of Data API builder (you may have learned about Data API builder from my previous article, as I used it to quickly make a stored procedure and a table available as REST endpoint to easily integrate with OpenAI) is the compatibility with OpenAPI specifications and Swagger. This was a highly demanded feature, and it...

Data API builder Now Supports ENV Files

September 20, 2023 Sep 20, 2023 09/20/23
Jerry Nixon
In September, Data API builder (DAB) revved with some great new features. In this article we’ll talk about controlling environment variables with ENV files. What is Data API builder? DAB is an open source, cross-platform engine that creates instant REST & GraphQL APIs for your database - MySQL, Postgres, Cosmos DB or Microsoft SQL. Without any code, DAB uses only a JSON configuration file that explains how to access your data and what objects to expose.