Episode 177 - Five and a Half Enhancements in SQL Server 2025

About this episode

Guy and Eitan discuss enhancements in SQL Server 2025 based on Stephen Planck's blog post.

Guy and Eitan discuss Stephen Planck's blog post "Five SQL Server 2025 Enhancements DBAs Will Notice", and add some of their own insights. Relevant links: Five SQL Server 2025 Enhancements DBAs Will Notice - SQL Table Talk Configure a flexible automatic failover policy for an availability group - SQL Server Always On | Microsoft Learn Accelerated Database Recovery (ADR) in TempDB | Microsoft Learn Enable and Run tempdb on tmpfs for SQL Server 2025 Preview on Linux - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn Optimized Locking - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn Standard Developer edition in SQL Server 2025 | Microsoft Learn ABORT_QUERY_EXECUTION query hint - public preview | Microsoft Community Hub

People in this episode

Hosts: Guy Glantser, Eitan Blumin

Topics covered

• SQL Server 2025
• Database enhancements
• Automatic failover policy
• Accelerated Database Recovery
• Optimized Locking
• Developer edition

Keywords

• SQL Server 2025
• DBA enhancements
• failover policy
• Accelerated Database Recovery
• tempdb
• Optimized Locking
• Developer edition
• query hint

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Microsoft Learn, SQL Table Talk, Microsoft Community Hub

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