There have been quite a few announcements since Microsoft Build 2025 and I wanted to make sure your team did not miss anything.
Azure SQL Announcements: May/June 2025
- Public Preview – Data Virtualization for Azure SQL Database
- Using Azure Metrics, Alerts, and Automation Accounts to start an XE session
- Unlocking More Power with Flexible Memory in Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Faster Management Operations in Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Announcing retirement of Microsoft Data Migration Assistant (DMA) Tool
- General Availability of SQL Server Migration Component in SSMS 21
- AI assisted code conversion copilot for Oracle-to-SQL Migrations
- Elastic Pools SKU recommendations in DMS Automation – Azure PowerShell
SQL Server Announcements: May/June 2025
- Announcing the release of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 21.3.6
- What’s new in SQL Server 2025 CTP 2.1: Building momentum from public preview
- What’s new in SQL Server 2025 : Microsoft Mechanics Blog with Bob Ward
- What’s new in Microsoft/SQLServerPSModule v22.4.5.1
- Secure by default: What’s new in SQL Server 2025 security
- Provide feedback in our Copilot in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) Survey
- Introducing “Backups on Secondary” for SQL Server Always On Availability Groups
- Running SQL Server 2025 on Linux Containers in WSL
- MSSQL Extension for VS Code: GitHub Copilot Preview + UI GA
- Introducing ZSTD Compression in SQL Server 2025
- Unlocking the Power of Regex in SQL Server
- Entra Authentication in Arc enabled SQL Server 2025
- Announcing the Public Preview of mssql-python
- Announcing the Public Preview of JSON index in SQL Server 2025
- Announcing the General Availability (GA) of JSON data type and JSON aggregates
- Announcing Public Preview of DiskANN in SQL Server 2025
- SQL Server 2025: Optional Parameter Plan Optimization – SQL Server | Microsoft Learn
- SQL Server 2025: Introducing Optimized Locking
- SQL Server 2025: Using the ABORT_QUERY_EXECUTION query hint
- SQL Server 2025: Accelerated Database Recovery (ADR) in TempDB
- SQL Server 2025: introducing TempDB space resource governance
- SQL Server 2025: introducing optimized Halloween protection
- Announcing the preview of Copilot in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
- SQL Server 2025 is now available for Public Preview
Security updates: May 2025
- OLE DB Driver 19.4.1 and 18.7.5 for SQL Server Released: Download
- Security Update of SQL Server 2022 RTM CU19 KB Article: KB5054531
Ready to try out SQL Server 2025: aka.ms/getsqlserver2025.
- Docs: aka.ms/Build/sql2025docs
- Announcement blog: aka.ms/sqlserver2025
- SQL Server homepage: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server
- Tales from the Field: How to Install SQL Server 2025
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