Brahmanand Shukla

I’m a seasoned SQL Server Professional having certified with MCSA SQL 2016 and with over 12 years of rigorous working experience in the Design, Development, and Optimization of MS SQL Databases. Few of my unique skills involved – Out of box thinking when working out the database design and can-do anything attitude when it comes to the database. Managed money critical, compliance critical, and performance-critical SQL Server databases, and some of them were in TB’s. You can find out more about me on LinkedIn (https://in.linkedin.com/in/brahmanand-shukla)

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The Distance Metric

In the new VECTOR_DISTANCE() function in SQL Server 2025, the first parameter is the distance_metric. What is this?

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