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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Get to know he 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.
Solutions
Transform the way your organization works
AI built-in
Combine semantic and full-text search with filtering, integrate AI models locally or in the cloud, streamline workflows with vector embedding, and accelerate development using LangChain, Semantic Kernel, and Entity Framework Core.
Made for developers
Process JSON efficiently with native support, connect data to REST interfaces, simplify queries with RegEx, and build real-time event-driven apps through change event streaming.
Cloud agility through Azure
Enable near real-time analytics with zero-ETL replication to OneLake, centralize management with Azure Arc, support disaster recovery and scale-out to Azure SQL, and simplify licensing with pay-as-you-go.
Support Tier 1 workloads with Enterprise edition
Access mission-critical capabilities to achieve best-in-class performance, security and availability for your Tier 1 data workloads.
Get started with Standard 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 demo apps with full Enterprise or Standard features—free for non-production, with easy upgrade to production and no code changes.
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.
Choose the pricing model that meets your needs
Simple pricing across editions with flexible pay-as-you-go options enabled via Azure Arc to fit your business needs.
Connect on a simple platform
Standardize communication with a single platform for collaboration via audio, video, chat, email, and file sharing.
Learn how SQL Server 2025 is licensed
SQL Server licensing makes choosing the right edition simpler and more economical.
Get the most out of your SQL Server
Software Assurance (SA) is a Volume Licensing benefit program to help customers get the most out of their Microsoft investments.
Unparalleled integrated management
Monitor all SQL Servers across on-premises and multicloud environments, track performance metrics, and gain proactive insights with automated best practice assessments.
Enhanced business continuity
Manage availability groups and cluster instances with real-time health tracking, strengthen protection with Defender for Cloud, and automate backups with point-in-time restore.
Unrivaled security and governance enhancement
Secure data across on-premises and multicloud environments, enable automatic patching and extended updates with Azure Arc, and centralize governance with Microsoft Purview.
Simplified SQL licensing via pay-as-you-go model
Optimize costs with flexible pay-as-you-go pricing and easily scale or adopt new technologies as your data needs grow.
Best-in-class security and performance
Deliver secure, high-performance applications with advanced capabilities built for modern workloads.
- Secure authentication
- Utilize authentication through Microsoft Entra Managed Identity
- Improved concurrency
- Tap into improved app concurrency with optimized locking
- Faster performance
- Accelerate performance with batch mode and faster query processing
- High availability
- Track increased uptime with reliable failover enhancements
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.
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.
SQL Server 2025 Standard
Rich programming, strong security, and fast performance for mid-tier apps—upgrade to Enterprise anytime with no code changes.
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.
SQL Server 2025 Express
A free edition of SQL Server, ideal for development and production for desktop, web, and small server applications.
Power BI Report Server
Create, manage, and deploy interactive or paginated reports on-premises with the flexibility to move to the cloud.
SQL Server enabled by Azure Arc
Extend Azure services to SQL Server instances hosted outside of Azure.
SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
A Host enterprise SQL Server apps in the cloud and save.
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