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Microsoft SQL Midyear 2026: The Quiet Shift from Database Engine to AI Data Platform
The 2026 SQL update wave shows a strategic transition: SQL is no longer just a persistence layer, it is becoming the governed execution backbone for agentic applications.
SQL Server 2025 as Your Agent-Ready Database: Security, Backup, and MCP in One Engine
The final part of the Polyglot Tax series tackles the hard production problems: unified Row-Level Security across relational, JSON, graph, and vector data — plus cryptographic audit trails and MCP integration that make SQL Server 2025 genuinely agent-ready.