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SQL Server 2025 Unveiled: The AI-Ready Enterprise Database with Microsoft Fabric Integration
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SQL Server 2025 Unveiled: The AI-Ready Enterprise Database with Microsoft Fabric Integration

by Bob Ward
October 2025
Intermediate to advanced
341 pages
7h 15m
English
Apress
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B. WardSQL Server 2025 Unveiledhttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-1847-9_3

3. AI Fundamentals

Bob Ward1  

You might remember in Chapter 1 I described my beginnings to work on SQL and AI started in 2023. There is a bit more of the backstory for this. I remember talking to Asad Khan, our VP of SQL at the time, in the summer of 2023. He said, “Bob, please get engaged with AI.” I didn’t ask why because we all knew AI was coming in fast and hot to the industry. What I didn’t know is exactly what I should do. As we approached Microsoft Ignite (and the PASS Summit) in November of 2023, it became very clear to me that we were not prepared ...

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