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.
Capabilities
Best in Class Security & Performance
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
AI Built in
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
Made For Developers
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
Editions
Support Tier 1 Workloads With Enterprise Edition
Get Started with Stnadard Edition
Get rich programming capabilities, security innovations, and fast performance for mid-tier applications. Easily upgrade to the Enterprise edition without changing any code.
Build with Developer Edition
Build, test, and demonstrate applications using all the features of the Enterprise or Standard edition in your non-product development and test environments. Available for free for use in non-production environments. You can easily switch to production-grade editions with no changes needed.
Start Small with Express Edition
Build small, data-driven web and mobile applications up to 50 GB in database size with this entry-level database. Available for free.
Benefits
Supercharge your AI applications with SQL Server 2025
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.
AI Built in
Accelerate AI innovation using the data you already have, all within SQL Server using familiar Transact-SQL (T-SQL) language.
Made For Developers
Streamline developer workflow to build modern data applications faster and more efficiently.
Cloud Agility through Azure
Enable frictionless analytics and cloud agility through Fabric and Azure Arc.