Agentic RAG and chat completion in the Microsoft SQL engine | Data Exposed
Microsoft SQL engine adds agentic RAG and chat completion by calling AI models via REST from stored procedures.
“It's the number one AI functionality we built into the engine for SQL 25 and Azure SQL for Hyperscale.”
Microsoft's Bob Ward explains how SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL Hyperscale extend built-in vector search to support agentic RAG and chat completion by making REST calls to AI models directly from stored procedures. It matters as a move to embed AI orchestration inside the database engine, but it is a vendor-specific engineering feature rather than a broad AI industry signal.