SQL Server 2025
Overview
Built on SQL Server's best-in-class security, performance and availability, SQL Server 2025 empowers you to accelerate AI using your own data, securely and at enterprise scale. It supports hybrid environments, enabling cloud agility for your databases through Azure and Microsoft Fabric.
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Description
SQL Server 2025 redefines what's possible for enterprise data. With built-in AI and developer-first enhancements, SQL Server 2025 empowers customers to accelerate AI innovation using the data they already have, all within SQL Server using the familiar T-SQL language.
SQL Server 2025 helps speed up time-to-market for new applications by:
- Providing built-in AI support to combine vector and key word search in a single engine. Customers can access the AI models they choose using the familiar T-SQL language.
- Empowering modern app development with the right tools for developers to build AI apps consistently across cloud and on-premises environments, including native JSON support, REST APIs, and others.
- Enabling frictionless analytics and cloud agility using near real-time data replication with database mirroring in Fabric and centralized management using Azure Arc.
- Enhancing security with Microsoft Entra ID for authentication, optimized locking for improved concurrency, and faster query processing for better performance.
Languages
- English, German, Japanese, Spanish, Korean, Russian, Italian, French, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Portuguese (Brazilian)
Resources
- Microsoft Learn | SQL Server and Azure SQL technical documentation
- Blog | Microsoft SQL Server Blog
- Community | Microsoft Tech Community: SQL Server
- Code Samples | Build an app using SQL Server
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