SQL Server 2025: AI-Ready Wherever You Run It

What makes SQL Server 2025 AI-ready, and what does that mean for your applications? Bob Ward explores native vector capabilities, embedding generation, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) patterns using T-SQL with local or cloud AI models. See optimized locking in action and discover developer features including native JSON support, regular expressions, change event streaming, and Data API builder. Through application examples, Bob connects these capabilities with security, disaster recovery, and Fabric mirroring. The session also explores SQL Server on Azure Local, including an architecture that keeps data, applications, and AI within a sovereign environment.