Ground to Cloud to Fabric: The State of Microsoft SQL

Explore how Microsoft SQL connects on-premises, Azure, and Microsoft Fabric environments while preserving familiar SQL skills and tools. Anna Hoffman walks through advances in the database engine, developer experiences, migration tooling, and AI capabilities, helping you understand the options for modernizing existing applications and building new ones. See demonstrations of automatic index compaction, AI-assisted performance troubleshooting, and vector search that scales with application demand. The session also explores Fabric Database Hub, Azure Arc, Azure Local, and a research-agent experience built with Microsoft Foundry, showing how operational data can become the foundation for intelligent applications.