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SUMMARY:SQL Server 2025 News: AI Integration and More
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Microsoft Malta office for another evening of technical \nlearning and networking around the Microsoft Data Platform. \nTwo sessions. One foundational. One deep. \n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ \n🧠 Session 1 — From ML to AI Agents: The Journey That Changed Everything \n◆ The Data Introduction Session \nBefore we talk about SQL Server 2025\, we need to speak the same language. \nThis session tells the story of AI from the beginning: \n→ From ML and its narrow\, task-specific roots \n→ To large language models and the generative AI explosion that followed \n→ To the agent landscape everyone is navigating but few have clearly mapped \nModels\, agents\, assistants\, copilots\, skills\, tools — and the very different \ntypes of agents hiding behind the same word. \nYou will leave with a mental model that makes every AI conversation\, \nand every vendor pitch\, easier to evaluate. \n◆ No prior AI experience required. \n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ \n🗄️ Session 2 — SQL Server 2025 News: AI Integration and More \n◆ The Main Session \nSQL Server 2025 marks a turning point for Microsoft’s flagship database engine. \nThis is the honest version of the story. \n→ The vector journey from Azure SQL to what SQL Server 2025 delivers in RTM \n→ What is GA\, what is still in preview\, and what that means for production \n→ DiskANN vector indexes\, AI_GENERATE_EMBEDDINGS\, AI_GENERATE_CHUNKS \n→ CREATE EXTERNAL MODEL — calling LLMs without leaving SQL Server \n→ Fuzzy string functions: EDIT_DISTANCE\, Jaro\, and when NOT to use vectors \nBuild semantic search and RAG pipelines inside the database. \nNo separate vector store required. \n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ \n🤝 Networking \nThe evening includes time to connect before and after the sessions. \nWhether you are deep in the Microsoft Data Platform or just getting started\, \nthis is your space to ask questions and exchange ideas with the community.
URL:https://ossmalta.eu/event/sql-server-2025-news-ai-integration-and-more/
LOCATION:Microsoft Malta\, Skyparks\, Skyparks\, Luqa\, Malta
CATEGORIES:Microsoft,Tech
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SUMMARY:Foundry for Builders: MCP\, Knowledge & Workflow Orchestration
DESCRIPTION:🛠️ Production Is Not Analytics: Understanding Microsoft Fabric’s Role\n⚙️ Modern production systems are built to process transactions\, enforce business rules\, and scale reliably.\n📊 Analytics systems are built to explore data\, aggregate it\, and turn it into insight.\n\nMicrosoft Fabric exists to cover this second space — with a unified\, end-to-end technology stack.\n\n🔧 In this session\, we’ll focus on Microsoft Fabric as a platform\, with a concise overview of:\n\n 	🗄️ How Fabric stores and organizes data beyond application databases\n 	🔄 How ingestion\, transformation\, and orchestration are handled\n 	📈 How analytics\, reporting\, and exploration are built on top of the same foundation\n 	🧩 How Fabric’s workloads are designed to work together as a single system\n\n🧠 Conceptual context will be kept to the minimum necessary to understand why these components exist\, with the emphasis placed on what they do and how they are used in practice.\n\n🎯 This session is aimed at developers who want a clear\, technology-oriented understanding of Microsoft Fabric and its role next to production applications — without turning into a data platform deep dive.\n🛠️ Foundry for Builders: MCP\, Knowledge & Workflow Orchestration\nMicrosoft Foundry introduces a new agent-first way of building AI applications — combining reasoning\, knowledge\, tools\, and workflows into a single\, composable platform.\n\n🚀 In this session\, we explore Foundry from a builder’s perspective\, focusing on how things actually fit together after the Ignite announcements — using the new Foundry UI and APIs.\n🔹 What you’ll see\n\n 	🧠 Knowledge-based Agent (RAG)\nBuild an agent backed by Foundry Knowledge to answer domain questions using retrieval-augmented generation.\n 	🔌 MCP-powered Agent\nUse a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to securely access an Azure SQL Database — without embedding schemas or credentials in prompts.\n 	🔀 Intent-based Workflow Orchestration\nImplement a workflow that detects user intent and routes each request to the correct agent\, showing how workflows act as the control plane for multi-agent systems.\n\n🎯 Why this matters\n\n 	Clear separation between knowledge\, actions\, and reasoning\n 	Practical patterns for multi-agent architectures\n 	Designed for scalable\, governed\, production-ready AI solutions\n\nBy the end of the session\, you’ll understand how to structure agents\, MCP tools\, and workflows in Microsoft Foundry — and how to apply these patterns to real-world builder scenarios.
URL:https://ossmalta.eu/event/foundry-for-builders-mcp-knowledge-workflow-orchestration/
CATEGORIES:Malta,Microsoft,Tech
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