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T-SQL Enhancements in SQL Server 2025

This course teaches you how to use SQL Server 2025 T-SQL enhancements—regular expressions, fuzzy string matching, and JSON improvements—while making informed decisions about performance, correctness, and production readiness.

Intermediate
1h 8m

Created by Gerald Britton

Last Updated Apr 16, 2026

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T-SQL Enhancements in SQL Server 2025

This course teaches you how to use SQL Server 2025 T-SQL enhancements—regular expressions, fuzzy string matching, and JSON improvements—while making informed decisions about performance, correctness, and production readiness.

Intermediate
1h 8m

Created by Gerald Britton

Last Updated Apr 16, 2026

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SQL Server 2025 adds several important enhancements to T-SQL, but knowing what’s new isn’t the same as knowing what to use. In this course, T-SQL Enhancements in SQL Server 2025, you’ll gain the ability to apply new language features safely and effectively in real systems.

First, you’ll explore SQL Server 2025’s new string and pattern-matching capabilities, including regular expressions and fuzzy matching, and learn when they make sense—and when they don’t. Next, you’ll discover how JSON improvements change querying patterns and performance characteristics for semi-structured data. Finally, you’ll learn how to evaluate which features are GA versus Preview and build a rollout strategy that minimizes risk.

When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and judgment needed to adopt SQL Server 2025 T-SQL enhancements confidently in production environments.

T-SQL Enhancements in SQL Server 2025
Intermediate
1h 8m
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Gerald Britton
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Gerald is a multiple-year of the Microsoft MVP award, Gerald has led introductory classes in Python and SQL for industry-sponsored events at Ryerson University, Toronto and the University of Toronto (his alma mater). 

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