SQL Server technical e-books
Get the technical resources, documentation, and code samples you need to support all areas of your data estate—from discovery and research to implementation and maintenance.
What you'll love about SQL Server 2017
Your choice of language and platforms
Build modern applications using the language of your choice, on-premises and in the cloud, now on Windows, Linux and Docker containers.
Industry-leading performance
Take advantage of breakthrough scalability, performance, and availability for mission-critical, intelligent applications and data warehouses.
Least vulnerable database
Protect data at rest and in motion with the least vulnerable database over the last seven years in the NIST vulnerabilities database.[1]
Real-time intelligence
Gain transformative insights for your business with real-time analytics at up to 1M predictions/second.
End-to-end mobile BI
Turn raw data into meaningful reports that can be delivered to any device—at one-fourth the cost of other self-service solutions.
Featured SQL Server resources
Go behind the data
Introducing SQL Server 2019
Transform your business with a unified data platform. SQL Server 2019 comes with integrated Spark and Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) for intelligence over all your data.
Unparalleled performance at incredible value. Simply unmatched.
Analytics in Azure is up to 14 times faster and costs 94 percent less than other cloud providers. Why go anywhere else?
SQL Server 2017 on Linux
For a limited time, take up to 30 percent off the traditional subscription price and get enterprise features for your Linux workloads.
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems
Read Gartner’s assessment of the ODBMS landscape and learn about the Microsoft "cloud first" strategy.
