About this episode

This episode explores Azure HorizonDB, a new Postgres service on Azure, focusing on its performance, AI features, and developer tools.

Azure HorizonDB is a new Postgres service on Azure built for scale, availability, and performance across any workload. In this episode of Azure Friday, we look at how HorizonDB delivers predictable performance with built-in zone resilience. We also explore new in-database AI features like AI Model Management and AI Pipelines, and walk through the developer experience in VS Code to build, query, and manage efficiently using AI. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:47 - HorizonDB Architecture Overview 02:47 - Performance Demo 03:37 - AI Model Management 04:19 - VS Code Postgres Tools Overview 06:44 - Debugging Query Plans with GitHub Copilot 09:16 - AI Pipelines 14:32 - Wrap Up Recommended resources Learn Docs Azure Product page Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Microsoft for PostgreSQL | LinkedIn: Microsoft for PostgreSQL Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday

People in this episode

Host: Scott Hanselman

Topics covered

• Azure HorizonDB
• Postgres on Azure
• AI features
• developer experience
• performance
• zone resilience

Keywords

• Azure HorizonDB
• Postgres
• AI Model Management
• AI Pipelines
• VS Code
• performance demo
• zone resilience

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Microsoft for PostgreSQL, GitHub Copilot, Azure Friday, Twitter/X

Products: Azure HorizonDB

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