<ul><li>Microsoft is integrating transactional database systems like Cosmos DB and SQL Server into its Fabric analytics and data lake platform to help users add AI to their systems.</li><li>The integration aims to allow customers to bring AI and analytics workloads closer to their transactional data by sharing the same underlying file format, Apache Parquet, in the OneLake environment.</li><li>This move is part of a trend towards simplifying and automating integration between different parts of data management infrastructure, enabling near real-time replication and operational reporting in tools like PowerBI.</li><li>Microsoft is also providing developers with options by offering open-source extensions to PostgreSQL for those looking for a document database alternative, in addition to its focus on SQL Server and Cosmos DB.</li></ul>

Microsoft stitches transactional databases to Fabric analytics system

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