Guy and Eitan discuss Stephen Planck's blog post "Five SQL Server 2025 Enhancements DBAs Will Notice", and add some of their own insights.

Relevant links:

• Five SQL Server 2025 Enhancements DBAs Will Notice - SQL Table Talk
• Configure a flexible automatic failover policy for an availability group - SQL Server Always On | Microsoft Learn
• Accelerated Database Recovery (ADR) in TempDB | Microsoft Learn
• Enable and Run tempdb on tmpfs for SQL Server 2025 Preview on Linux - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn
• Optimized Locking - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn
• Standard Developer edition in SQL Server 2025 | Microsoft Learn
• ABORT_QUERY_EXECUTION query hint - public preview | Microsoft Community Hub