Microsoft made a series of database announcements at the Ignite conference, including the general availability of SQL Server 2025.

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Microsoft today announced that its next SQL Server version will hit general availability status on June 1. In a blog posted by Tiffany Wissner, senior director of Microsoft's Data Platform Marketing ...