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Thanks to the technology behind ChatGPT, it’s become surprisingly simple to query a data set in plain English. As with most generative AI, results from OpenAI’s API are still imperfect, which means ...

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Microsoft made a series of database announcements at the Ignite conference, including the general availability of SQL Server ...