SQL Server 2012 Availability on amazon.com

Question

When will SQL Server 2012 be available on amazon.com?  Thanks.

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Kalman Toth, SQL Server & Business Intelligence Training; SQL SERVER BEST PRACTICES

Answer 1

There is no official release date for SQL Server 2012, so nobody can answer that question, at the moment.

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Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP | web | blog

Answer 2

I was at the SQL group meeting yesterday in Microsoft NYC offices and the presenter MVP said that SQL Server 2012 will have an entirely new licensing fees structure.

 

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Kalman Toth, SQL Server & Business Intelligence Training; SQL SERVER BEST PRACTICES

Answer 3

That is correct (there will be changes regarding how you license per core and edition changes), but that doesn't mean there is a release date yet.

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Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP | web | blog

Answer 4

Additionally to the information provided by Tibor. There are some launch events at the end of February and at the beginning of March. So the official release should be somewhere around this dates.

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Answer 5

The launch event can be very distant from the release date. It was either 2008 or 2008 R2 where the launch even was about 6 months from RTM...

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Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP | web | blog

Answer 6

The launch event can be very distant from the release date.

Tibor,

That would be most unfortunate. I think the SQL Server 2008 launch event was early because it was tied to the release of other products. Certainly was not the case for SQL Server 2005.

It appears that SQL Server 2012 launch is on its own merit.

Related article:

Microsoft Reveals Launch Date for Next-generation SQL Server 2012

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Kalman Toth, SQL Server & Business Intelligence Training; SQL SERVER BEST PRACTICES

Answer 7

Just for the sake of other readers of this thread, in case there is any confusion about release date for SQL Server 2012. This launch event is not neccesarily when the product will be released (RTM). The launch is a marketing activity and can happen months before RTM.

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Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP | web | blog

Answer 8

Latest update:

Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2012

SQL Server 2012 RTM evaluation download page:

http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/get-sql-server/try-it.aspx

Article quote: "Microsoft announced that SQL Server 2012 has Released to Manufacturing (RTM), and that customers should expect general availability to start on April 1!!"

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Kalman Toth, SQL Server & Business Intelligence Training; SQL SERVER BEST PRACTICES