History

Main article: History of Microsoft SQL Server

The history of Microsoft SQL Server begins with the first Microsoft SQL Server
product—SQL Server 1.0, a 16-bit server for the OS/2 operating system in 1989—and
extends to the current day.

Milestones

 MS SQL Server for OS/2 began as a project to port Sybase SQL Server onto OS/2 in 1989, by
Sybase, Ashton-Tate, and Microsoft.
 SQL Server 4.2 for NT is released in 1993, marking the entry onto Windows NT.
 SQL Server 6.0 is released in 1995, marking the end of collaboration with Sybase; Sybase
would continue developing their own variant of SQL Server, Sybase Adaptive Server
Enterprise, independently of Microsoft.
 SQL Server 7.0 is released in 1998, marking the conversion of the source code from C to C++.
 SQL Server 2005, released in 2005, finishes the complete revision of the old Sybase code into
Microsoft code.
 SQL Server 2017, released in 2017, adds Linux support for these Linux platforms: Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Ubuntu & Docker Engine.[3]

Currently

As of July 2019, the following versions are supported by Microsoft:

 SQL Server 2012[4]

 SQL Server 2014
 SQL Server 2016
 SQL Server 2017

From SQL Server 2016 onward, the product is supported on x64 processors only.[5]

The current version is Microsoft SQL Server 2017, released October 2, 2017. The
RTM version is 14.1709.3807.1.

SQL Server 2019 has been released as a community technology preview and is slated
for release to manufacturing in the second half of 2019.[