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SSRS to Power BI Migration: A Practical Guide
Self service analytics : Users can create their own reports Modern visualizations : Interactive, mobile friendly reports Cloud first : Scales without…
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SSIS to Azure Migration: Strategies and Tools
Lift and shift existing SSIS packages with minimal changes: Convert SSIS logic to native Azure Data Factory: SSIS Component Data Flow Equivalent OLE DB…
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Synapse Pathway: Accelerating Data Warehouse Migration
Synapse Pathway translates SQL code from various sources to Azure Synapse Analytics SQL syntax: Teradata to Synapse Netezza to Synapse Snowflake to Synapse…
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Azure Synapse Analytics Updates: Ignite 2022 Highlights
Azure Synapse Analytics continues to mature as a comprehensive analytics platform. The improvements in serverless SQL, Spark integration, and data lake…
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SharePoint Syntex Document Processing: Practical Implementation
Our goal is to: 1. Automatically classify incoming documents as invoices 2. Extract key data (vendor, amount, date) 3. Route invoices through an approval…
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Microsoft Syntex: Content AI for the Enterprise
Syntex uses AI models to: Classify documents automatically Extract information from documents Apply metadata and retention policies Generate content…
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Power Virtual Agents Updates: Low-Code Conversational AI
Power Virtual Agents now can generate responses using GPT models: Topics now support more complex logic: Create complex workflows triggered by chatbot…
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Azure Bot Service Updates: Building Intelligent Conversational AI
Bot Framework Composer now supports more advanced dialog patterns: Azure Bot Service provides a comprehensive platform for building conversational AI. With…
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Azure Cognitive Services Updates: OpenAI Integration and More
Cognitive Services now includes Azure OpenAI Service, bringing GPT models into the Cognitive Services family: The new Image Analysis API includes enhanced…
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Foundation Models on Azure: Understanding Large Language Models
Foundation models are pre trained on massive datasets and can be: Used directly for various tasks Fine tuned for specific domains Used as feature extractors…
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Building LLM Applications with Azure OpenAI: Patterns and Practices
When building applications with GPT 3 and other LLMs, you need to think about: Prompt design and management Chaining multiple LLM calls Testing and…
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Azure Machine Learning Updates from Microsoft Ignite 2022
Feature stores are crucial for ML operations. Azure ML now includes a managed feature store: The Responsible AI dashboard now includes more capabilities:…
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DALL-E 2 on Azure: AI Image Generation for Enterprise
DALL E 2 creates realistic images from natural language descriptions. It can: Generate original images from text prompts Edit existing images based on…
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Using Codex Models for Azure Development Automation
return self.generate(prompt, maxtokens=500, temperature=0.3) return self.generate(prompt, maxtokens=500, temperature=0.2)
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GPT-3 Models on Azure: Understanding text-davinci-002 and Codex
Provide the optimized query with explanations.""" ERRORDIAGNOSIS = """Diagnose this error: Error: {error} Context: {context}
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Azure OpenAI Service Updates at Microsoft Ignite 2022
Azure OpenAI Service is moving toward broader preview access, with more customers being able to apply and get approved. The application process is becoming…
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gRPC JSON Transcoding in .NET 7: REST and gRPC from One Service
JSON transcoding bridges this gap.
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Output Caching in ASP.NET Core 7: A Complete Guide
Output caching stores the complete HTTP response and serves it directly for subsequent identical requests, bypassing the entire request pipeline. Unlike…
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Rate Limiting Middleware in ASP.NET Core 7
Rate limiting protects your application by: Preventing denial of service attacks Ensuring fair usage among clients Protecting downstream services Managing…
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Minimal APIs in .NET 7: Filters, Route Groups, and Typed Results
The biggest addition filters provide middleware like functionality for individual endpoints: You can create reusable filter classes: Organize related…
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Azure Functions with .NET 7: Isolated Worker Process Model
The isolated worker process model separates your function code from the Azure Functions host: Version independence : Use any .NET version, including .NET 7…
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C# 11 Features: Raw String Literals, Required Members, and More
No more escaping nightmares. Raw string literals start and end with at least three quotes: They work with interpolation too just add more dollar signs: This…
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.NET 7 Release Candidate: Final Preview Before GA
.NET 7 continues the tradition of making .NET faster and more cloud-native with each release. Here's a preview of the key improvements we'll see at GA.
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Azure DevOps Best Practices - October 2022 Summary
Azure DevOps provides a comprehensive platform for enterprise DevOps with robust security and governance features.