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Microsoft SQL Server

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.
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Benefits

Supercharge your mission-critical workloads with Microsoft SQL Server

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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.
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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
    • Mirror SQL Server databases in Microsoft Fabric to enable zero-ETL, near real-time analytics
    • Manage, govern, and protect your SQL Server from Azure
    • Azure Pay-As-You-Go enabled by Azure Arc for SQL Server anywhere, with simplified onboarding
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Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform

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.
INDUSTRY RECOGNITION

The business value of Microsoft SQL Server enabled by Azure Arc

SOLUTIONS

Find the SQL Server version and solutions for your needs

SQL Server 2025PREVIEW

AI-ready enterprise database with best-in-class security, performance, and availability.

SQL Server 2022

The most Azure-enabled release yet, with continued performance, security, and availability innovation.

SQL Server enabled by Azure Arc

Extend Azure services to SQL Server instances hosted outside of Azure.

SQL Server on Azure

Azure SQL is a family of managed, secure, and intelligent products that use the SQL Server database engine in the Azure cloud.

SQL Server BI

A modern, comprehensive, enterprise-ready business intelligence platform to transform data into insights.

SQL Server 2022 Developer

A full-featured free edition, licensed for use as a development and test database in a non-production environment.

SQL Server 2022 Express

A free edition of SQL Server, ideal for development and production for desktop, web, and small server applications.
CUSTOMER STORIES

See how companies use the Microsoft data platform to realize their potential

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Take the next step with SQL Server

Preview SQL Server 2025

Try the AI-ready enterprise database with best-in-class security, performance, and availability.

SQL Server Documentation

Dive into the technical details including installation guidance and stay up to date on the latest release notes.

SQL Server Blog

 Keep up on the latest news about SQL Server innovations and enhancements.
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