Browse Machine Learning Videos (57)

Matt Gordon and Anna Hoffman show how to set up anomaly detection in Microsoft Fabric using streaming change events from Azure SQL/SQL Server, then trigger alerts and actions with Fabric components like Eventstream, Eventhouse, and Activator.

John Savill gives a very quick overview of Rayfin and Microsoft Fabric Apps, focusing on where they fit in the Fabric ecosystem and why they matter for analytics and data platform work.

John Savill gives a quick overview of Rayfin and Microsoft Fabric Apps, focusing on the problem they’re trying to solve, how the Fabric Apps data model works, and what app hosting looks like in practice, with a short demo and key takeaways.

Anna Hoffman introduces Change Event Streaming (CES) in public preview across Microsoft SQL, showing where it fits for modern, event-driven application scenarios and how it differs from approaches like CDC and mirroring in SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL, and Fabric SQL.

John Savill gives an overview of Microsoft IQ and how it’s meant to bring the right intelligence (enterprise data, web data, and model capabilities) to AI agents, including the different “IQ” surfaces (Work, Fabric, Foundry, Web) and the security/identity considerations around least privilege and protection.

Microsoft Developer demonstrates a real-time 3D digital twin of a wind farm built in Microsoft Fabric, combining LiDAR-derived terrain geometry, live turbine telemetry from a Fabric Eventhouse, and a natural-language interface that can identify underperforming turbines and estimate cost impact.

John Savill runs through a quick set of Azure updates from 10th July 2026, covering Azure Front Door Edge Actions, Azure Databricks SQL Serverless regional expansion, Azure Arc-enabled SQL scenarios, VS Code SQL tooling updates, new platform metrics, and Microsoft Entra ID passkey changes.

Microsoft Developer recaps the 2026 updates shipped across SQL Server, Azure SQL, and SQL database in Fabric, highlighting security, tooling, and developer workflow changes announced around SQLCon/FabCon and Microsoft Build 2026.

Anthony Nocentino and Anna Hoffman show how to give GitHub Copilot controlled, real-time visibility into SQL Server using MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers. They demo a custom DMV-based MCP server for DBA workflows and a zero-code Data API Builder approach for app data access, with guardrails and permissions defined by you.

Justin Garrett interviews Microsoft MVP Andrew Pruski about building “Burrito Bot,” a semantic search demo that uses SQL Server 2025 vector search to recommend restaurants based on meaning rather than keywords, covering embeddings, similarity scoring, and scaling with vector indexes and ANN techniques.

John Savill runs through the weekly Azure update for 19th June 2026, covering a VS Code Azure Functions project-creation refresh, Azure Migrate’s GitHub Copilot integration, networking and storage feature updates, Azure Databricks integration with OneLake, and new Log Analytics summary rules.

Nitin Jadhav demonstrates how pg_duckdb brings DuckDB-style analytical performance into Azure Database for PostgreSQL, including running faster OLAP queries on existing Postgres tables and querying Parquet files from object storage without loading them into Postgres first.

Muhammad Usama explains how Citus distributes data across a Postgres cluster and why scaling events can be slow due to safe rebalancing constraints. He then walks through concrete improvements—more parallel shard moves and snapshot-based node addition—to reduce data movement and speed up scale-out/scale-in operations.

Paula Santamaría and Julia Schröder Langhaeuser present a production Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture built on Azure Database for PostgreSQL, explaining why Postgres can be a solid foundation for RAG at scale and what it takes to move from prototype to production with performance tuning and monitoring.

Abe Omorogbe explains how PostgreSQL is evolving into a backbone for production AI agent workflows, focusing on reliable and safe data retrieval. He covers MCP-based agent patterns, common failure modes when agents generate SQL, and emerging approaches like context correction and blended retrieval across relational, vector, and graph techniques.

Varun Dhawan explains why PostgreSQL is increasingly used as an “everything database” and how its extensibility lets teams consolidate workloads like OLTP, analytics, and vector search. He also connects these capabilities to Azure Database for PostgreSQL and scaling patterns such as Citus.

Microsoft Developer previews Livestream 3 of POSETTE 2026 with short introductions to 11 PostgreSQL talks, including WAL, logical replication, testing and coverage, consistency in clusters, performance tuning, and a session on production RAG at scale using Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

Mohsin Ejaz explains how to build safety tooling and guardrails for automated, AI-driven PostgreSQL tuning, focusing on monitoring, validation, and risk controls so performance improvements don’t come at the cost of outages or regressions.

dotnet explains patterns for modernizing data and migrating line-of-business applications incrementally, focusing on moving the database first and evolving the app through stable API layers and modern data access approaches.

John Savill rounds up a week of Azure platform changes and retirements, spanning compute/storage updates, database and identity improvements, monitoring changes, and several developer-facing AI items including GitHub Copilot Agent Mode in SSMS and Azure AI Foundry agent licensing and model availability.

Laurent Bugnion explains why Microsoft Build 2026 labs are a popular way for developers to learn through hands-on sessions, including tracks that cover AI, Copilot, and Microsoft Fabric. He also shares where to find the on-demand “Digital lab” sessions and how long they remain available after the event.

Dan Wahlin demonstrates an “agentic journey” workflow that takes an app idea through planning, coding, infrastructure creation, and deployment to Azure, using GitHub Copilot CLI and Azure skills to handle tasks like Bicep templates, health probes, and database wiring for an app backed by Azure SQL and Microsoft Foundry.

John Savill runs through a Build-special weekly Azure update, covering a wide set of platform announcements across compute, containers, integration, monitoring, databases, Fabric/Databricks, and Azure AI Foundry—plus security-focused items like confidential computing and Purview agent integrations.

Charles Feddersen and Abe Omorogbe explain how AI apps and agents change database design, focusing on reasoning over operational data instead of only transactions. They demo new capabilities across Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB, and Azure HorizonDB (cloud-native PostgreSQL) to simplify architectures and reduce latency.

Milos Colic shares how Xoople scaled Python-based AI workloads on Azure using Ray via Anyscale, covering the distributed-systems challenges behind data ingestion, training, and inference, and why the team prioritized delivering outcomes over operating clusters.

Nikisha Reyes-Grange introduces Azure HorizonDB and Rayfin, focusing on how these Azure Data and Microsoft Fabric innovations aim to modernize PostgreSQL operations and simplify building and running data applications, including SQL-level AI functions and hybrid search concepts.

Marco Casalaina and Ayca Bas explain how to build grounded, enterprise-ready agents by delegating context to three “IQ” systems: Foundry IQ for knowledge, Fabric IQ for data, and Work IQ for human/work context, with a live demo showing how this approach avoids brittle, hand-wired pipelines.

Microsoft Developer’s Data Exposed episode shows how to build a data-powered application using Rayfin with a Microsoft Fabric SQL Database backend, including Fabric SSO authentication. It also covers iterating on the app with GitHub Copilot and how Rayfin’s code-first SDK reduces the amount of infrastructure wiring you need to do.

Amanda Silver and Marco Casalaina explain how to build context-aware AI agents by connecting them to enterprise knowledge, business data, and work signals using Foundry IQ, Fabric IQ, and Work IQ, with an emphasis on orchestration, governance, and operating within trusted boundaries.

Mark Russinovich and Ion Stoica discuss how AI platforms need to evolve for agentic, multimodal, globally distributed workloads, covering infrastructure fundamentals, training and real-time serving architectures, and why open source, security, and governance are becoming core platform requirements.

Sunitha Muthukrishna demonstrates how to use Rayfin with Microsoft Fabric to generate and deploy an agent-driven full-stack web app, including a managed database, authentication, and backend services, then connect it to an existing Fabric data estate to add analytics, BI, and AI-powered experiences.

Alexander Wachtel shows how Microsoft Fabric can be used to build dynamic, context-aware multi-agent workflows, using Fabric foundations like semantic models, lakehouses, and pipelines to support planning, retrieval, summarization, and execution across specialized agents.

Rishabh Saha shares how Microsoft and PepsiCo engineers modernized PepsiCo’s data foundation for agentic applications, using Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, and Azure Databricks. The session outlines a practical build path for agentic RAG, including Azure SQL vector indexing and semantic search to speed up repeatable app patterns.

Rob Ferguson leads a Microsoft Build 2026 panel on shipping custom AI models at scale, covering practical trade-offs in fine-tuning and serving, plus what teams are doing to control inference cost and latency in production.

Ben Zulauf and Sachin Patney present a Microsoft Build 2026 session on Rayfin’s approach to building backends as code, with agent-driven app generation and native integration with Microsoft Fabric data and analytics for deploying secure, scalable applications.

Parthasarathy Srinivasan and Rajya Laxmi Yellajosyula demonstrate a multi-cloud, enterprise AI workflow that combines Oracle Database@Azure with Microsoft Fabric, MCP, and GitHub Copilot, covering provisioning, synthetic data creation, ETL from bronze to gold, and an end-to-end fraud detection demo driven by natural-language orchestration.

Pablo Castro presents a Microsoft Build 2026 deep dive into Foundry IQ, Microsoft’s context engineering platform for building agents that can retrieve enterprise knowledge using agentic RAG. The session covers Foundry IQ’s architecture, connecting new knowledge sources, ingestion pipeline customization, retrieval APIs, and performance/evaluation improvements.

Vaidyaraman Sambasivam, Osi Otugo, and Jean Boudier demonstrate an end-to-end flow for taking Hugging Face open-source models from discovery to production inference using Foundry Managed Compute in Azure AI Foundry, focusing on scaling, governance, and avoiding direct GPU management.

William Liang demonstrates how teams use Azure AI Foundry to distill large models into smaller, task-focused language models using supervised fine-tuning, with an emphasis on reducing production latency and cost while maintaining accuracy through structured evaluation.

Katarina Stanley and Daniel Arrizza explain how Anyscale on Azure uses Ray on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to run distributed AI workloads, from multimodal data pipelines and training/fine-tuning through to deploying models as inference services inside an Azure subscription.