SQL Server provides several native backup tools that you can use to perform different types of backups, such as full, differential, transaction log, file, and filegroup backups.

Native SQL queries that return an object array. Native SQL queries that map records to JPA entities. Hibernate and SQL together. Hibernate and JPA can execute any valid SQL statement. By default, the ...

For the first time, Microsoft is bringing native vector support to SQL Server. SQL Server 2025 will be an enterprise-ready vector database that can generate and natively store vector embeddings.