What you’ll love about SQL Server 2019

Get to know Azure SQL, the family of SQL cloud databases
Benefit from a consistent, unified experience across your entire SQL portfolio and a full range of deployment options from edge to cloud. The Azure SQL family of SQL cloud databases provides flexible options for app migration, modernisation and development.
Query all data types with SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters
Manage your big data environment more easily with Big Data Clusters. They provide key elements of a data lake – Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), Apache Spark and analytics tools – deeply integrated with SQL Server and fully supported by Microsoft. Easily deploy your database using Linux containers on a Kubernetes cluster.
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“As early adopters of SQL Server 2019, we are really pleased with the performance and results we achieved from using the new SQL Server features. The intelligent query processing feature has increased the speed and processing power of our business.”
Edilson Andrade de Albuquerque, Manager of Database Team, Itaú-Unibanco

"Our customers trust us to protect not only their property but also their private information. With the Secure Enclaves enhancement of Always Encrypted in SQL Server 2019, we can now enforce highly restricted, client-application-based access to our customers’ most sensitive data without inhibiting our real-world data handling and analysis requirements.”
Victoria Silversmith, Technical Design Authority – Data, Hiscox

“With SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters, we can solve for on-demand big data experiments. We can analyse cancer research data coming from dozens of different data sources, mine interesting graph features and carry out analysis at scale.”
Pieter Derdeyn, Knowledge Engineer, Systems Imagination

“We consolidated several businesses under a single ERP platform – this time with SQL Server 2019. Despite a 400% increase in processed documents over the past five years, we’re on top of that growth. We get a lot from SQL Server – reliability, scalability, integration and agility."
Ilya Tambovtsev, CIO Senior IT Operation Eastern Europe Director, Baltika Breweries, part of the Carlsberg Group

“With SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters, we are able to analyse our relational data in the unified data platform, leveraging Spark, HDFS and enhanced machine learning capabilities, all while remaining compliant. Our analysts and expert users can continue to interact with the core data using the tools and languages they are comfortable with.”
George Bayliffe, Head of Data, Dr. Foster
SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters on Workloads running on Apache Spark
SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and HPE Synergy
SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters on Dell EMC PowerStore
SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters on Solutions using Dell EMC Infrastructure
SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters on Cisco UCS Reference Architecture
SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters on Lenovo Big Data Configuration

Move from Oracle and other database platforms to SQL Server 2019 and get free licences
Bring your Oracle, IBM Db2, Sybase ASE or Netezza databases over to Microsoft SQL Server 2019 and get free licences as part of this offer. [2]
[1] National Institute of Standards and Technology Comprehensive Vulnerability Database
[2] Software Assurance subscription required.