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Demystifying SQL Server Licensing

Name: Demystifying SQL Server Licensing
Uploaded: 2024-09-30T15:15:02+00:00
Duration: 38 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: A short YouTube talk by Mike Austin about SQL Server licensing and the product's evolution. In this excerpt he traces SQL Server from a traditional…

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A short YouTube talk by Mike Austin about SQL Server licensing and the product's evolution. In this excerpt he traces SQL Server from a traditional departmental database toward broader functionality and notes Microsoft’s shift from a ~3–4 year release cycle to a roughly two-year cadence, citing SQL Server 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2019 as examples.

Questions this video answers

SQL Server 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2019.

Approximately a two-year release period (down from a three-to-four-year cycle).

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You know, SQL, probably prior to 2008 or to, you know, 2012, I would probably say that it was considered kind of like a departmental application database. And so Microsoft has been growing its functionality quite a quite substantially. And you can see that, you know, early on it was like a three to four year release cycle, but they've sort of gotten down to a two year period. We had SQL 2012, 14, 16, we had 17 and 19. So they're releasing new versions of this product quite, quite frequently now.