Azure SQL Database External REST Endpoints Integration Public Preview


 

The ability to call a REST endpoint natively from Azure SQL Database, which was made available via an Early Adopter Preview in May, is now moving to Public Preview. I’m extremely happy that as of today the new system stored procedure sp_invoke_external_rest_endpoint is available to everyone, automatically and transparently: you can use it right away, from any Azure SQL Database that you may already have or that you’ll create in future. With sp_invoke_external_rest_endpoint you can call a REST endpoint, like an Azure Function, for example, with just a line of code: declare @ret as int, @response as nvarchar(max); exec