Jason Haley

Ramblings from an Independent Consultant

Demo Review: Simple RAG using SQL Server, OpenAI and Function Calling

Demo Review: Simple RAG using Blazor, SQL Server, Azure OpenAI and Function Calling If you are like me, a full stack C# developer who is attempting to get up to speed on how GenAI technologies are going to show up in our business applictions - then after you get the first demo up and running, this demo (also by Michael Washington) is a great next step. RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) applications typically have the following steps: Gather input from the user (Retrieval) Use the user’s input to do a query over data or documents (ofen using vector embeddings) and gather N number of the best results from that search then pass to an LLM as context to use in crafting a response for the user (Generation) Return the natual language result from the LLM describing its search result …