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Anna Hoffman: AI Database Development - Episode 416

24 August 2026 48:17 Jeffrey Palermo

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https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Anna Hoffman is a Principal Group Product Manager for Azure Data on Microsoft's SQL Engineering team, where she works across SQL Server, Azure SQL, and SQL database in Fabric. She is also the host of Data Exposed, Microsoft's video series covering the data platform. Anna holds an engineering degree from Georgia Tech along with a master's degree in data science, and started her career as a data and applied scientist before moving into product management. She continues to blog regularly for the Azure SQL Devs' Corner. You can find her on GitHub and on X at @AnalyticAnna. Anna's Devblogs - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sql/author/antho/ Anna's Github - https://github.com/amthomas46 X Account - https://x.com/analyticanna LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amthomas46/ What's New Across Microsoft Microsoft SQL Server Blog Author Page Azure SQL Devs' Corner Author Page Data Exposed (YouTube playlist, 500 episodes) Azure SQL YouTube channel "The Era of the Agentic Database Developer" (Build 2026 recap) "What's new across Microsoft SQL in 2026 so far" (mid-year recap) MSSQL extension roadmap - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-mssql/wiki/roadmap GitHub Copilot Agent Mode in SSMS - https://learn.microsoft.com/ssms/github-copilot/agent-mode Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast: Episode 160 - https://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/azure-sql-database-with-anna-hoffman-episode-160

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