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Optimized Locking in SQL Server 2025: Fewer Locks, Less Blocking, and the Cases It Cannot Fix

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Reproduce traditional row-lock accumulation and writer blocking, then see how SQL Server 2025 uses transaction ID locking and Lock After Qualification to improve concurrency—and where hints, isolation levels, and query shapes limit the benefit.

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2026-09-23

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Optional Parameter Plan Optimization in SQL Server 2025: Fixing the Kitchen-Sink Search Procedure

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See how SQL Server 2025 uses Optional Parameter Plan Optimization to create separate plans for selective and unfiltered searches, how to verify the dispatcher and variants, and when dynamic SQL or recompilation is still the better choice.

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2026-09-14

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Vectors in SQL Server 2025

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Introduction SQL Server 2025 introduced new features, including vectors. The main purpose of vectors is to create a new semantic search with the help of AI. Modern AI models represent text as vectors (embeddings) that capture semantic meaning. Similar meanings produce vectors that are close to each other in this vector space, allowing AI systems to […]

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