The ultimate plan is to shift to using GitHub Copilot, effectively ditching the preview of Copilot that shipped with SSMS 21.

A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or cloud-hosted AI models without relying on massive general-purpose LLMs.

After its debut six months ago, Microsoft has released the latest update for the public preview of SQL Server 2017 on Linux, with some early adopters already using it within production containers.