Building AI Applications with SQL: Ground to Cloud to Fabric
2025TL; DR
❓Are you proficient in SQL and eager to learn about the new world of AI?
❓Is your business asking you to sprinkle AI magic on your data?
In this full-day workshop, you will learn the fundamentals of Generative AI, and how AI can be applied to your data, integrating seamlessly from SQL on the edge to cloud solutions using Microsoft Fabric. Additionally, this workshop will emphasize security aspects, ensuring that your AI applications are secure and compliant.
Session Details
❓Are you proficient in SQL and eager to learn about the new world of AI?
❓Is your business asking you to sprinkle AI magic on your data?
In this full-day workshop, you will learn the fundamentals of Generative AI, and how AI can be applied to your data, integrating seamlessly from SQL on the edge to cloud solutions using Microsoft Fabric. Additionally, this workshop will emphasize security aspects, ensuring that your AI applications are secure and compliant.
Overview:
Whether you are a developer, architect, administrator, or IT professional, this workshop welcomes everyone—even without advanced SQL knowledge. This is your one-stop shop to learn the latest advancements in SQL and AI, directly from the Microsoft engineering team, and to have fun while doing it.
We will cover essential concepts such as:
✅Language models
✅Prompt engineering
✅Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
✅Vectors and embeddings
✅AI services.
You will explore the practical applications of building AI-driven solutions with SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL, and SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric, enabling you to gain practical experience and skills.
❓Is your business asking you to sprinkle AI magic on your data?
In this full-day workshop, you will learn the fundamentals of Generative AI, and how AI can be applied to your data, integrating seamlessly from SQL on the edge to cloud solutions using Microsoft Fabric. Additionally, this workshop will emphasize security aspects, ensuring that your AI applications are secure and compliant.
Overview:
Whether you are a developer, architect, administrator, or IT professional, this workshop welcomes everyone—even without advanced SQL knowledge. This is your one-stop shop to learn the latest advancements in SQL and AI, directly from the Microsoft engineering team, and to have fun while doing it.
We will cover essential concepts such as:
✅Language models
✅Prompt engineering
✅Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
✅Vectors and embeddings
✅AI services.
You will explore the practical applications of building AI-driven solutions with SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL, and SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric, enabling you to gain practical experience and skills.
3 things you'll get out of this session
You will learn these concepts throughout the day:
✅Connect with embedding models of your choice using T-SQL
✅ Vector search for T-SQL works ground to cloud to fabric
✅Combine with other criteria in T-SQL for hybrid and other searches
✅RAG patterns with the chat completion model of your choice
✅Use AI Agents with NL2SQL for Agentic RAG
Speakers
Bob Ward's other proposed sessions for 2026
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Ask Me Anything: Migrating On-Prem SQL Server to Azure SQL – Real-World Experience - 2026
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Build Secure, Scalable AI Applications with Azure SQL Database Hyperscale - 2026
Inside SQL Server 2025 Part 1 - 2026
Inside SQL Server 2025 Part 2 - 2026
SQL and AI for the rest of us - 2026
SQL vs. Fabric? Why Not Both! A Practical and Entertaining Guide for All - 2026
SQL Server Versioning Explained - 2026
What's new in the SQL core engine - 2026
Microsoft SQL and AMD in the era of AI - 2026
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