Today marks the official birthday of Microsoft SQL Server 2025. Here’s where to download the evaluation version. Here are the top things you wanna consider as you talk to your managers, developers, and end users.
The feature differences between 2025 Enterprise and Standard have been revealed, and the news for Standard Edition folks is spectacular: it now supports up to 32 CPU cores and 256GB RAM! Other editions get a couple of tweaks: Express Edition now supports up to 50GB per database (although it’s still capped at a single CPU core), and Web Edition is no more.
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