Announcing Microsoft SQL Server 2025: an AI-ready enterprise database from ground to cloud.
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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
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 plan to common pitfalls without application changes, making intelligent parallelism adjustments for at-scale workloads.
Enterprise-proven
Scale your business while meeting your security, performance, and availability needs with an industry-leading total cost of ownership.
Overview
Reinvent your business
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- View all SQL Servers deployed on-premises, in Azure, and in other clouds.
- Capture key performance metrics and realize faster time-to-value with monitoring.
- Gain proactive and actionable insights with automated best practices assessment.
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- Manage availability groups (AGs) inventory and track real-time health status.
- View Always On failover cluster instances (FCI) and protect with Defender for Cloud.
- Automate backups and point-in-time restore for seamless application of policy.
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- Protect your on-premises and multi-cloud data using Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
- Enhance security using auto patching and Extended Security Updates enabled by Azure Arc.
- Gain central insights and governance across all SQL databases with Microsoft Purview.
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- Scale with cost-efficient, pay-as-you-go pricing.
- Easily onboard new technologies or scale existing ones as your data estate grows.
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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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IMPACT
The numbers speak for themselves
98 of the Fortune 100 companies use SQL Server
1M predictions/second using Machine Learning Services
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100T transactions/day using Azure Cosmos DB
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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.
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SQL Server 2022
The most Azure-enabled release yet, with continued performance, security, and availability innovation.
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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
Azure SQL is a family of managed, secure, and intelligent products that use the SQL Server database engine in the Azure cloud.
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SQL Server BI
A modern, comprehensive, enterprise-ready business intelligence platform to transform data into insights.
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SQL Server 2022 Developer
A full-featured free edition, licensed for use as a development and test database in a non-production environment.
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SQL Server 2022 Express
A free edition of SQL Server, ideal for development and production for desktop, web, and small server applications.
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SUCCESS STORIES
See how companies use the Microsoft data platform to realize their potential
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NBA players improve performance with AI on Azure AI infrastructure
The NBA Stats Team built a Microsoft Azure solution based on Azure Kubernetes Service to collect data that can help them understand players’ strengths and weaknesses.
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Entain bets on SQL Server 2022 to boost growing gaming business
Entain, a leader in sports betting, gaming, and interactive entertainment, relies on the stability of Microsoft SQL Server as its data platform.
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Bulutistan extends Azure services to local cloud with Azure Arc–enabled SQL Managed Instance
Bulutistan turned to Azure Arc to provide its customers with Azure services while keeping data on-premises in accordance with the country’s data sovereignty laws.
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Try SQL Server 2022
Transform your business with continued performance and security innovation.
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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
Keep up on the latest news about SQL Server innovations and enhancements.
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[1]
According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology Comprehensive Vulnerability Database, as of September 2022.
