SQL Server in 2026 with Bob Ward

About this episode

Richard chats with Bob Ward about the announcements from Ignite regarding SQL Server 2025 and its future developments.

SQL Server 2025 is released - what's in it, and what happens next? Richard chats with Bob Ward about the huge array of announcements coming out of Ignite around SQL Server 2025, including AI-related features, new reliability and performance options, engine improvements, and more! The tooling for SQL Server also continues to evolve, including making Copilot available through SSMS and as part of the SQL extension to Visual Studio Code. And there's more to come - have a listen!

People in this episode

Host: Richard Campbell

Guest: Bob Ward

Topics covered

• SQL Server
• AI features
• performance options
• engine improvements
• tooling evolution

Keywords

• SQL Server 2025
• AI features
• performance
• Copilot
• SSMS
• Visual Studio Code

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ignite

Products: SQL Server 2025, Copilot, SSMS, Visual Studio Code

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