Name: My Favorite New T-SQL in SQL Server 2025
Start: 2026-04-21T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-04-21T20:30:00-04:00

**Cette session sera en anglais/This session will be in English**

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The newest release of SQL Server provides a wide variety of new functions and options that can improve performance, simplify code, and make our lives easier.

This session is a dive into everything new that appears in SQL Server 2025. Some of the new features were already released in Azure SQL Database, whereas others are surprises that are just waiting for us to unbox and enjoy!

Looking to make good use of the new Regex functions? There is a surprising upgrade snuck in there for STRING_SPLIT().

Is PRODUCT() really that useful? Yes. Yes it is!

What is fuzzy string matching all about?

JSON support is finally here!

There's more to be had, waiting for you right here!

Yulin Nong

Christian Cote

Michelle Gutzait

MSDEVMTL

.NET Foundation

Hosting the meetup group once a month at McGill University.

McGill DataSphere Lab

Technology

ASP.NET

Software Development

Web Development

Computer Programming

SQL Server

.NET

Software Architecture

Visual Studio

Agile Project Management

Mobile Development

SQL Azure

DevOps

Microsoft Azure

Ed Pollack is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP with a passion for learning how Data Platforms work and sharing that knowledge with the community. His experiences in data architecture, database design, performance optimization, and data security are motivation for public speaking, writing, coding, and other community activities.




Ed has spoken at SQL Saturday events, SQL Bits, PASS Summit, EightKB, and many other regional and international events. Ed is the organizer of the Capital Area SQL Server Group and SQL Saturday Albany, as well as a co-organizer of SQL Saturday New York City, and Future Data Driven. He has published a number of books, including "Dynamic SQL: Applications, Performance, and Security in Microsoft SQL Server", "Expert Performance Indexing in Azure SQL and SQL Server 2022", and "Analytics Optimization with Columnstore Indexes in Microsoft SQL Server: Optimizing OLAP Workloads". Ed is also an active contributor of content to SimpleTalk.

In his free time, Ed enjoys video games, traveling, cooking exceptionally spicy foods, and hanging out with his amazing wife and sons.

Edward Pollack