Description

Microsoft SQL Server 2025 Standard

Installation for 1 Device Only

No Physical Product will be sent, you will receive the activation key and download link via email

Server + CAL licence Type

Microsoft SQL Server 2025 Standard delivers essential enterprise data capabilities, core business intelligence, and built-in AI innovations tailored for small-to-midsize organizations and department workloads. Engineered to power modern applications, it pairs industry-leading relational security with advanced developer tooling and hybrid cloud intelligence.

Key Features & Highlights:

• Built-in AI Capabilities: Native support for vector data types, vector embeddings, and combined semantic and full-text search directly within T-SQL queries. Connect seamlessly to external local or cloud AI models without additional vector database infrastructure.

• Modern App Development: Upgraded developer functionality including native JSON processing, T-SQL Regular Expressions (RegEx), REST APIs, and event-driven data streaming via Apache Kafka and Azure EventHubs.

• High Performance & Security: Includes Optimized Locking for improved query concurrency, batch mode performance optimizations, and integration with Microsoft Entra ID for cloud-grade authentication.

• Hybrid Cloud & Analytics: Effortless hybrid management through Azure Arc and near real-time data replication into lakehouses via Microsoft Fabric database mirroring.

• Standard Capacity Specs: Built to scale efficiently up to 32 cores (or 4 sockets), 256 GB of buffer pool memory per instance, and up to 32 GB for columnstore segment cache.

Target Audience: Ideal for mid-tier applications, departmental databases, and growing organizations that require mission-critical reliability, modern developer capabilities, and AI readiness at an accessible price point.