Accelerate your AI application's time to market by harnessing the power of your own data and the built-in AI capabilities of SQL Server 2025, the enterprise database with best-in-class security, performance, and availability.
Supercharge your mission-critical workloads with Microsoft SQL Server
Fast and agile
Build AI applications using your own data and deploy them securely anywhere to accelerate your innovations to market.
Built-in intelligence
Intelligent Query Performance (IQP) enhancements adapt query plans to common pitfalls without application changes, making intelligent parallel adjustments for at-scale workloads.
Enterprise-proven
Scale your business while meeting security, performance, and availability needs with an industry-leading total cost of ownership.
Overview
Reinvent your business
Semantic searching alongside full-text search and filtering
Flexible AI model interfaces ground to cloud using REST
Integration with popular AI frameworks like LangChain, Semantic Kernel, and Entity Core Framework.
Support for Microsoft Entra Authentication including Managed Identities throughout the engine, inbound and outbound
Enhanced query performance with Optional Parameter Plan Optimization, faster batch mode, and columnstore improvements
Increase application concurrency and uptime with Optimized Locking
Manage and govern your entire data estate to overcome data silos with Microsoft Purview, which combines data governance solutions and Microsoft 365 compliance solutions.
Safeguard and manage sensitive data wherever it lives.
Pivot and adapt in a rapidly evolving landscape, add layers of intelligence to applications, uncover predictive insights, and govern data anywhere with an integrated data platform.
"Change Event Streaming and Mirroring for SQL Server 2025 help MSC to build the bridge to bring our operational data into Microsoft Fabric"
Javier Villegas, IT Director – DBA and BI Services at Mediterranean Shipping Company
“I am excited about SQL Server 2025. Our initial tests have shown great results with fuzzy string matching and regex. This improvement in development time and data quality stability is a huge benefit”
Paw Jershauge, Senior DBA & SQL Specialist at Orifarm Group A/S
“With the new semantic search and RAG capabilities in SQL Server 2025, we can empower existing GenAI solutions with data embeddings to create next-generation AI applications. By connecting systems, we deliver a seamless, conversational experience across environments."
Markus Angenendt, Data Platform Infrastructure Lead at Kramer & Crew GmbH & Co. KG
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