Microsoft announced a new data access driver for SQL Server that should be the path forward for data developers in the era of .NET Core.

In our last article we looked at System.Data in .NET Core 3.0. Now we turn our attention to System.Data.SqlClient, which is the SQL Server driver.

SQL Server 2025 also supports DiskANN, text chunking, embedding generation, and integration with AI frameworks like LangChain, Semantic Kernel, and Entity Framework Core.

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To license under Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise 2012 they would license it as 40 (4×10) core licenses. (See the note about “Software Assurance Implications” below).