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• Enterprise ready database - SQL Server 2025
• SQL 2025 - Enterprise and engine features
• Raj Pochiraju
• Architecture overview and AI-readiness
• AI ready - SQL Server 2025
• Davide Mauri

SQL Community Engineering Connection Series: Episode 3

All about SQL Server 2025 enterprise-ready new features, as well as an architecture overview of AI-ready features.

Speakers: Davide Mauri and Raj Pochiraju

This series is all about connection bringing Microsoft's product experts and the SQL community together to share knowledge, answer questions, and help you stay up to date on the latest in the SQL and data ecosystem.

Join Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/2914607474379?p=x3u2ymC3IvLoLi18ZO Meeting ID: 291 460 747 437 9 Passcode: NB9W7RP3

Upcoming Session Details Topic: Enterprise Rady Databases- SWL Server 2025 Date: December 18th, 2025 Time: 9:00AM – 10:00AM PT Speakers: Raj Pochiraju (Principal PM, Azure Data / SQL) & Davide Mauri (Principal PM, Azure Data / SQL) Description: Discover how SQL Server 2025 delivers enterprise-ready performance with built-in AI capabilities, advanced security, and developer-focused enhancements to simplify and accelerate modern data solutions. Location: ONLINE

Descubre cómo SQL Server 2025 ofrece un rendimiento preparado para la empresa con capacidades de IA integradas, seguridad avanzada y mejoras centradas en los desarrolladores para simplificar y acelerar las soluciones de datos modernas.

Topic: "Enterprise Ready Databases - SQL Server 2025" Date: December 18, 2025 Time: 9:00AM – 10:00AM PT Speakers:

• Raj Pochiraju (Principal PM, Azure Data / SQL)
• Davide Mauri (Principal PM, Azure Data / SQL)

Description: Discover how SQL Server 2025 delivers enterprise-ready performance with built-in AI capabilities, advanced security, and developer-focused enhancements to simplify and accelerate modern data solutions.

Este evento forma parte de la SQL Community Engineering Connection Series que iremos publicando en esta comunidad.

Discover how SQL Server 2025 delivers enterprise-ready performance with built-in AI capabilities, advanced security, and developer-focused enhancements to simplify and accelerate modern data solutions.

Speakers: Raj Pochiraju (Principal PM, Azure Data / SQL) Davide Mauri (Principal PM, Azure Data / SQL)

Microsoft is excited to announce the launch of the first major step in rebuilding that connection: The SQL Community Engineering Connection Series, launching Wednesday, November 19th with Priya Sathy, Partner Director of Product SQL.

Get ready for an exciting session from Microsoft’s new SQL Community Engineering Connection Series - a biweekly event that brings members of the Microsoft SQL Product Group directly to the community! Topic: SQL25 - MSFT Ignite Announcements Date: November 19, 2025 Time: 9:00AM – 10:00AM PT Speakers: Priya Sathy, Partner Director of Product Management (Azure Data) Description: Learn all about what's new in SQL Server 2025, SQL in Fabric & Azure SQL and ask questions LIVE! This series is all about connection bringing Microsoft's product experts and the SQL community together to share knowledge, answer questions, and help you stay up to date on the latest in the SQL and data ecosystem. Be sure to register now in order to be notified when the Teams link goes live.

Session Format

• 55 min: Featured topics + demos from SQL Product Managers
• Live Q&A with the speakers where time permits

NOTE: There will also be occasional special AMA sessions featuring SQL Leadership Upcoming Session Details Topic: SQL25 - MSFT Ignite Announcements Date: November 19, 2025 Time: 9:00AM – 10:00AM PT Speakers: Priya Sathy, Partner Director of Product Management (Azure Data) Description: Learn all about what's new in SQL Server 2025, SQL in Fabric & Azure SQL and ask questions LIVE! Join Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/2914607474379?p=x3u2ymC3IvLoLi18ZO Meeting ID: 291 460 747 437 9 Passcode: NB9W7RP3 We hope to see you there!

| Date/Time | Speaker | Product/Feature | Session Topic | | --------- | ------- | --------------- | ------------- | | November 19th

9:00am PST | Priya Sathy | SQL 25 Ignite Announcements | SQL 25 Ignite Announcements | | December 4th: 9:00am PST | Priya Sathy, Bob Ward, Anna Hoffman | SQL25, SSMS, SQL in Fabric GA | Post MSFT Ignite AMA with SQL Leadership | | December 18th

9:00am PST | Raj Pochiraju | SQL 2025 - Enterprise and engine features | Enterprise ready database - SQL Server 2025 | | December 18th 9:00am PST | Davide Mauri | AI ready - SQL Server 2025 | Architecture overview and AI-readiness | | January 8th

9:00am PST | Borko Novakovic | Azure SQL MI next- gen | Best for Enterprises: Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-Gen | | January 8th

9:00am PST | Ajay Jagannathan / Anitha Adusumilli | SQL + Fabric Integration : Mirroring | Integrated Data real estate: SQL + Fabric Integration | | January 22nd

9:00am PST | Derek Wilson | SQL Engine improvements - Query Processing | SQL Engine - Query processing improvements | | January 22nd

9:00am PST | Dimitri Furman | SQL Engine improvements - Storage | SQL Engine improvements for performance -Storage, optimized locking | | February 5th

9:00am PST | Borko Novakovic | Azure SQL MI : CES and CDC | Data Mobility - Change event streaming; Cost optimization and storage expansion strategies for Azure SQL MI | | February 5th

9:00am PST | Anitha Adusumilli | Azure Arc SQL- migration, MI Link, Monitoring | SQL in hybrid cloud environment - Azure Arc | | February 19th

9:00am PST | Tejas Shah / Sudhir Raparla | Migration | Modernizing SQL : end to end Migration journey to Azure |

RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) is the most common approach used to get LLMs to answer questions grounded in a particular domain's data. How do you build a RAG solution on data already stored in SQL Server or Azure SQL? In this session you'll learn about existing and future options that you can start to use right tomorrow, leveraging Azure SQL as a vector store and taking advantage of its established performances, security and enterprise readiness!

Presented by Davide Mauri, Principal Product Manager on Azure SQL DB

** Part of RAGHack, a free global hackathon to develop RAG applications. Join at https://aka.ms/raghack **

📌 Check out the RAGHack 2024 series here!

Pre-requisites: - Read the official rules and join the hack at https://aka.ms/raghack. No Purchase Necessary. Must be 18+ to enter. Contest ends 9/16/24.

• Want more hands-on RAG training? Visit the Reactor series home page to see all the RAGHack 2024 sessions!

.NET Conf: Focus on AI is a free, one-day livestream event that features speakers from the community and Microsoft teams working on integrating AI into .NET applications. Learn how to build intelligent applications with .NET using the latest AI libraries and tools, enhance existing applications with AI features, and see real-world examples of AI in action. Tune into focus.dotnetconf.net on August 20, 2024. Ask questions live and learn how to make your .NET applications smarter.

| Session | Speaker | | :------------------------- |:------------------------- | | Keynote - State of .NET + AI | Scott Hanselman, Maria Naggaga and guests | | Get started incorporating AI into your .NET applications and services | Stephen Toub | | Better together: .NET Aspire and Semantic Kernel | Steve Sanderson and Matthew Bolanos | | Build interactive AI-powered web apps with Blazor and .NET | Daniel Roth | | Navigating the world of AI models in .NET: From local development to the cloud | Bruno Capuano | | OpenAI and Azure OpenAI: A .NET SDK convergence story | Matt Soucoup and Roger Pincombe | | Agents: Patterns and practices for automating business workflows | Kosta Petan and XiaoYun Zhang | | RAG on your data with .NET, AI and Azure SQL | Davide Mauri | | Building Generative AI apps with your data in Azure Cosmos DB | James Codella | | Integrating Semantic Search Capabilities with .NET and Azure: Milvus Vector Database | Tim Spann | | H&R Block: Lessons learnt from applying Generative AI to apps with .NET and Azure | Vin Kamat | | Add Generative AI capabilities to your .NET Web app for Azure App Service | Gaurav Seth | | Observing AI applications from dev to production with .NET Aspire | Anthony Shaw | | Infuse AI in your Windows apps with Windows Copilot Runtime and .NET | Nikola Metulev | | Build your own copilot with Teams AI library and .NET | Ayca Bas and John Miller | | RAG with AI Search and .NET | Matt Gotteiner |