This morning, SQL Server 2025 Release Candidate 0 was released. You can see the new features list and details here. Of course, I’ll be writing more about the forthcoming release in the next several months both here and in my column at Redmondmag.com. However, I wanted to get a quick post about something that made me really excited. In my column over at Redmond, I mentioned that the Vector Search functionality was not available on my Mac, because of some problems with Rosetta, Mac’s x86 translation layer.
Well, big new this morning. Using Anthony Nocentino’s sample code here I got Vector search running locally on my Macbook Pro.
Yes, that’s Azure Data Studio (Azure Data Studio for life, or until it stops working for real, or we get SSMS on ARM). And that’s me doing a vector query against my RCO container running all on Apple Silicon. Great work SQL team, and I hope the rest of you have fun testing SQL Server 2025–stay tuned for more exciting news.