SQL Server 2025 removes Master Data Services (MDS), a significant and disruptive change for the BI stack with no direct in-product replacement.
Explores new SQL Server 2025 T-SQL features: the || string concatenation operator and the ||= compound assignment operator.
Explains the new UNISTR() T-SQL function in SQL Server 2025 for handling Unicode strings, emojis, and escape sequences.
A step-by-step guide to manually installing SQL Server 2025 Release Candidate 0 on an Azure Virtual Machine, including configuration for remote access.
A guide on implementing SQL Server 2025's new vector search capabilities in a .NET Aspire application using the eShopLite sample project.
