EngineEdition Branches Inside System Procedures DBAs Already Call
SQL Server 2025 adds EngineEdition 12 branches to familiar system procedures, and sp_spaceused can delegate to a FIDO path.
Replication Security Parameters Changed in SQL Server 2022 and 2025
I parsed replication procedure signatures across SQL Server 2019, 2022 and 2025 to find security and TLS parameter changes.
Six SQL Server Log Reader Columns Missing After 2019
Tested SQL Server 2022 and 2025 builds have six fewer fn_dblog and fn_dump_dblog columns than SQL Server 2019.
System Procedures and Views Whose Code Changed Between SQL Server 2019 and 2022
I diffed 217 changed system module definitions between SQL Server 2019 and 2022 and found caller-visible changes in procedures DBAs use.
sys.fn_filelog: An Undocumented Log-Reading Function Added in SQL Server 2022
SQL Server 2022 added sys.fn_filelog, an undocumented log reader with the same output columns as fn_dblog and fn_dump_dblog.