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. Microsoft SQL Server 2025 is the latest major release of Microsoft's flagship database platform, engineered with a heavy focus on built-in AI capabilities, developer productivity, and cloud intelligence. Officially released for general availability on November 18, 2025, it introduces built-in vector search, native JSON processing, and robust integration with the Microsoft cloud. With SQL Server 2025, you can run your SQL Server database backups (full, differential, and transaction log), from a secondary replica in your Always On Availability Groups. This helps offload storage, CPU, and network performance from the primary database host to a secondary host, reallocating database maintenance resources, and allowing it to be used by application queries.
