# Start here: Azure SQL Foundations series

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Author: Anna Hoffman

Published: 2026-08-25T16:00:18Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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## AI overview

Microsoft introduces the Azure SQL Database Foundations series, a set of four videos covering Hyperscale databases, modernization and migration, AI features, and operational data. Each episode includes a repository for hands-on follow-up.

## Source excerpt

Most developers I talk to aren't asking whether Azure SQL Database can handle their next app. They're asking where to start when it comes to modernization, migration, and AI in the database. If you're reading this, you're probably in a similar boat: you've got an existing schema or databases, a scaling question you haven't had [...] The post Start here: Azure SQL Foundations series appeared first on Microsoft for Developers.