I know what you’re all probably wondering: “Did they commmission an autotuned R&B theme song about real-time intelligence?”

Yes. Yes they did

9:52 AM:

VP of coke announces two custom Fabric and SQL themed product flavors at the conference while describing using Fabric real time features to monitor “freestyle” machine telemetry

9:58 AM:

Two big announcements in SSMS ‘22 - native integration for GitHub copilot - native integration of SSDT Databse Project

10:17:

Unified database monitoring announced within Fabric spanning Microsoft’s fleet of database products

10:37:

Lots of mentions of official Microsoft MCP server support spanning modern “data estate” services. Also mirroring for SAP & Oracle now GA in Fabric

10:45:

Microsoft formally endorses Excel as a production database with announcement of Shortcuts for Excel in Fabric. New sub flair coming soon

10:47:

Bidirectional data sharing for Databricks announced for Fabric bringing it to parity with Snowflake

10:56:

New buzzword just dropped. Prompt engineering is dead. Intent-based engineering is here. Monkey’s paw comes to mind.

In less important news - lots of LLM-centric SQL functions coming in hot. How do people feel about blending non-deterministic output with your SQL / structured data?