Asad Khan articles

Asad Khan

Vice President of SQL Products and Services

Asad Khan is the Vice President of SQL Products and Services. He leads all engineering and product management for SQL Server and all Azure SQL.

Published November 19, 2024

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Announcing Microsoft SQL Server 2025: Enterprise AI-ready database from ground to cloud

Sign up for the preview of Microsoft SQL Server 2025, an AI-ready database with built-in security, hybrid AI vector search, and integration with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Azure.

Published March 21, 2024

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Expand the limits of innovation with Azure data

Microsoft product enhancements are designed to help make application migration, modernization, and development easier so you can power what’s next.

Published November 4, 2019

8 min read

SQL Server 2019 is now generally available

As you saw from our launch announcement earlier today, over a year ago at Microsoft Ignite we announced our first preview of SQL Server 2019 and today our latest release is now generally available.

Published July 24, 2019

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SQL Server 2019 community technology preview 3.2 is now available

We’re excited to announce the monthly release of SQL Server 2019 community technology preview (CTP) 3.2. With this release of SQL Server 2019 community technology preview 3.2, we are announcing the preview of Big Data Clusters for SQL Server 2019. Big Data Clusters for SQL Server enables big data analytics within SQL Server.

Published September 24, 2018

6 min read

SQL Server 2019 preview combines SQL Server and Apache Spark to create a unified data platform

Today at Ignite, Microsoft announced the preview of SQL Server 2019. For 25 years, SQL Server has helped enterprises manage all facets of their relational data. In recent releases, SQL Server has gone beyond querying relational data by unifying graph and relational data and bringing machine learning to where the data is with R and Python model training and scoring.