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Apply intelligence across all your data with SQL Server 2019

Whether your data is structured or unstructured, query and analyze it using the data platform with industry-leading performance and security.

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What you'll love about SQL Server 2019

SQL Server 2019 provides industry leading performance, security and intelligence over all your data, structured and unstructured.

Analyze every type of data

Gain insights from all your data by querying across relational, non-relational, structured, and unstructured data, for a complete picture of your business using SQL Server 2019 with Apache Spark built in.

Choose your language and platform

Get the flexibility to use the language and platform of your choice with open source support. Run SQL Server on Linux containers with Kubernetes support or on Windows.

Rely on industry-leading performance

Take advantage of breakthrough scalability and performance to improve the stability and response time of your database—without making app changes. Get high availability for mission-critical applications, data warehouses, and data lakes.

Trust nine years of proven security leadership

Achieve your security and compliance goals using the database rated as least vulnerable over the last nine years. Stay a step ahead using built-in features for data classification, data protection, and monitoring and alerts ^[1].

Make faster, better decisions

Turn data into answers using the enterprise reporting capabilities of SQL Server Reporting Services along with the included Power BI Report Server, which gives your users access to rich, interactive Power BI reports on any device.

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Why SQL Server is best on Azure

Migrate your existing apps or build new ones on Azure and get the best price-performance for your mission-critical SQL Server workloads. With costs up to 87 percent lower than the competition, you’ll see why customers like Allscripts and H&R Block choose Azure.

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Relational data is siloed from Big Data impeding insights

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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SQL Server 2019 webinar

Learn how SQL Server 2019 helps solve modern data challenges by helping you apply intelligence across all your data.

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SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines datasheet

Learn about the manageability, security, and price-performance benefits of running SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines.

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SQL Server 2019 technical white paper

Learn how to enhance the security, performance, and availability of your data workloads.

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Professional Azure SQL Database Administration

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See how companies are using SQL Server 2019 to realize their potential

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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 analyze 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

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" We consolidated several businesses under a single ERP platform—this time with SQL Server 2019. Despite a 400 percent 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 analyze 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