SQL Server 2025 Preview now supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

SQL Server 2025 Preview now supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 What’s new in SQL Server 2025 Preview RC1 New AI and vector data Improved developer experience Analytics and data connectivity Continued reliability RHEL 10 support in SQL Server 2025 RC1 Getting started Next steps Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform | Product Trial About the authors Vivien Wang Amit Khandelwal More like this Blog post Blog post Original podcast Original podcast Keep exploring Browse by channel Automation Artificial intelligence Open hybrid cloud Security Edge computing Infrastructure Applications Virtualization Share Microsoft's SQL Server 2025 (17. x) Preview release candidate 1 (RC1) now includes preview support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL). This milestone expands SQL Server's footprint on Linux, giving developers and IT professionals more choices for modern, high-performance deployments. SQL Server 2025 Preview is packed with AI and developer-friendly features, making RHEL 10 a great platform for experimentation. With RHEL 10 support, you can start validating SQL Server 2025 Preview in your development and test environments ahead of general availability. In addition to RHEL 10 support, SQL Server 2025 Preview introduces several exciting updates: Vector data type with support for half-precision floats (2-byte) for up to 3,996 dimensions in a single vector. Vector indexes for similarity search. External AI model management that integrates with REST inference endpoints and embedding tasks. Regular expressions : Use regex directly in SQL queries. JSON data type : Store, query, and transform JSON natively. External REST endpoint invocation : Call REST/GraphQL services directly from SQL Server. PolyBase on Linux now supports ODBC data sources.