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Microsoft SQL Server 2025

Accelerate your AI application's time to market by harnessing the power of your 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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Overview

Reinvent your business with SQL Server 2025

    • Utilize authentication through Microsoft Entra Managed Identity
    • Tap into improved app concurrency with optimized locking
    • Accelerate performance with batch mode and faster query processing
    • Track increased uptime with reliable failover enhancements
    • Enhance intelligence by combining semantic search with full-text search and filtering
    • Apply flexible interfaces for AI models, deployed locally or via cloud services
    • Streamline workflows with integrated vector embedding
    • Accelerate app development with LangChain, Semantic Kernel, and Entity Framework Core integration
    • Efficiently process JSON data with native type, index, and functions
    • Increase extensibility by connecting data to any REST interface
    • Simplify querying of diverse datasets using Regular Expression (RegEx)
    • Build real-time, event-driven apps with change event streaming
    • Achieve zero-ETL, near-real-time analytics by replicating SQL Server data to Microsoft OneLake with database mirroring in Fabric
    • Deploy centralized management, security, and automation using Azure Arc
    • Enable disaster recovery and read scale-out to Azure SQL
    • Get simplified licensing with Azure Arc pay-as-you-go
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Benefits

Supercharge your AI applications with SQL Server 2025

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Best-in-class security and performance

Get the most secure databases over the last decade,1 with best-in-class performance and availability.with best-in-class performance and availability.
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AI built-in

Accelerate AI innovation using the data you already have, all within SQL Server using familiar Transact-SQL (T-SQL) language.
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Made for developers

Streamline developer workflow to build modern data applications faster and more efficiently.
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Cloud agility through Azure

Enable frictionless analytics and cloud agility through Fabric and Azure Arc.
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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.
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INDUSTRY RECOGNITION

The business value of Microsoft SQL Server enabled by Azure Arc

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SOLUTIONS

Find the right SQL Server version and solutions for your needs

SQL Server 2025 Enterprise

The AI-ready enterprise database with best-in-class security, performance, and availability.
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SQL Server 2025 Standard

Get rich programming capabilities, security innovations, and fast performance for mid-tier applications. Easily upgrade to the Enterprise edition without changing any code.
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SQL Server 2025 Developer

A full-featured free Enterprise or Standard edition, licensed for use as a development and test database in a non-production environment.
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SQL Server 2025 Express

A free edition of SQL Server, ideal for development and production for desktop, web, and small server applications.
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Power BI Report Server

Create, manage, and deploy interactive or paginated reports on-premises with the flexibility to move to the cloud.
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SQL Server enabled by Azure Arc

Extend Azure services to SQL Server instances hosted outside of Azure.
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SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

A Host enterprise SQL Server apps in the cloud and save.
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"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, Mediterranean Shipping Company

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“At Infios, we are very excited about several new features in SQL Server 2025 and the vast amount of opportunities for performance improvements.”
Tim Radney, SaaS Operations Manager, Infios

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“SQL Server 2025 represents a major leap forward in database technology, fortifying both security and performance.”
Shailesh Panday, Deputy Manager, IT, Buhler AG

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Get to know he AI-ready enterprise database with best-in-class security, performance, and availability.
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SQL Server Documentation

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

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    As of July 2025, according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) National Vulnerability Database (vulnerability incident counts 2016–2025: SQL Server 62; MySQL 1193; Oracle 198; IBM 197; PostgreSQL 195; SAP 78).

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