SQL Server 2025
SQL Server 2025 introduces new capabilities alongside familiar architectural and operational questions. These articles evaluate features, migration considerations, and production relevance from a practical SQL Server perspective.
SQL Server Vector Search: What to Evaluate Before Production
SQL Server 2025 adds native support for vector data and vector search. Applications can keep embeddings alongside relational data and use the SQL Database Engine to find semantically similar information. A small proof of concept is easy enough to build: store an embedding, calculate the distance between vectors and return ...
SQL Server 2025: Why “What’s New?” Is the Wrong First Question
In many SQL Server 2025 upgrade discussions, the conversation starts in a familiar way. A new version appears, someone opens the feature list, and before the team has properly understood the current estate, the discussion already moves toward individual capabilities that sound useful, modern, or strategically relevant. That reaction is ...