Introducing SQL Server 2022
Offer November 2022
This month was announced the general availability of SQL Server 2022, the most Azure-enabled release of SQL Server yet, with continued innovation across performance, security, and availability¹. This marks the latest milestone in the more than 30-year history of SQL Server.
SQL Server 2022 is a core element of the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform. The platform seamlessly integrates operational databases, analytics, and data governance. This enables customers to adapt in real-time, add layers of intelligence to their applications, unlock fast and predictive insights, and govern their data—wherever it resides.
Take Advantage of the Latest SQL Server Offering
Business continuity through Azure
Help ensure uptime with fully managed disaster recovery in the cloud through the link feature in Azure SQL Managed Instance. Continuously replicate data to and from the cloud3.
Seamless analytics over on-premises operational data
Drive insights in near real time by breaking the wall between operational and analytical stores. Analyse all your data using both Spark and SQL runtimes in the cloud with Azure Synapse Link.
Visibility over your entire data estate
Manage and govern your entire data estate to overcome data silos with Microsoft Purview.
The most secure database over the last 10 years
Achieve your security and compliance goals using the database rated as least vulnerable over the last 10 years2. Use an immutable ledger to help protect data from tampering.
Industry-leading performance and availability
Take advantage of performance and availability for faster queries and to help ensure business continuity. Accelerate query performance and tuning with no code changes required. Keep multi-write environments running smoothly for users across multiple locations.
Performance and Scalability Are Automatically
Enhanced via Built-in Query Intelligence
Get more out of your data with the Azure-enabled capabilities of SQL Server 2022. Through integration with Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure Purview, Microsoft is enabling customers to drive deeper insights, predictions and governance from their data at scale. Security innovation, building on SQL Server’s track record as being the least vulnerable database over the last 10 years, continues with Ledger for SQL Server, which uses blockchain to create a tamper-proof track record of time of all changes to the database.
Explore SQL Server 2022 Capabilities
Hybrid Capabilities and Pay-As-You-Go Pricing Are Now Available for SQL Server Environments With Azure Arc
SQL Server, enabled by Azure Arc, extends Azure services on-premises and manages your SQL Server estate from the Azure portal for a more unified and streamlined management experience.
Monitor the health of your SQL Servers with SQL assessment and bring enhanced security capabilities through Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Use cloud-native features including a new pay-as-you-go model and pay for only what you use.
Read the BlogClients Are Already Taking Advantage of the New Capabilities in SQL Server 2022
“Features like Query Store hints and the next generation of intelligent Query processing are awesome. The possibility of improving and maintaining great performance over time without code changes is getting better on every new SQL Server version.”
- Javier Villegas, IT Director for DBA and BI Service, Mediterranean Shipping Company
1 SQL Server 2022 free editions (Developer edition, Express edition) are available to download starting today. SQL Server 2022 paid editions (Enterprise edition, Standard edition) will be available in Volume Licensing (Enterprise Agreement, Enterprise Agreement Subscriptions) customers starting today, which represents the majority of SQL Server customers. Customers purchasing via CSP, OEM, and SPLA can begin purchasing SQL Server 2022 in January 2023.
2 According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology Comprehensive Vulnerability Database, as of September 2022.
3 The bidirectional disaster recovery capability of the Link feature for Azure SQL Managed Instance is available in limited public preview. Sign up for early access. General availability will occur at a future date.
4 National Institute of Standards and Technology Comprehensive Vulnerability Database.