SQL Server 2024 or 2025?

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SQL Server 2024 or 2025?

Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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July 19, 2023 at 9:17 pm

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Take a guess when the next version of SQL Server will release. Give me a date, and I'll send a prize to whoever is closest (or maybe 2 people that are equidistant), and posted earliest here.
To make it more interesting, if you post in 2023, you get leeway of a week. If you post in H1 2024, you get 3 days.
Enter here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeQqiGMdl7pKXGZE4zCtF3-YXIH4eKbdtYWRD16ZKNH67eO5w/viewform?usp=pp_url
I'll close the contest where there is a public announcement of a preview. MVPs are not allowed to enter, nor anyone with an NDA with Microsoft.
You can guess no more than 3 times.
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Site Owners SSC Guru Points: 80311 More actions · Answer 1

Thanks for posting your issue and hopefully someone will answer soon.

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Tom Uellner SSCrazy Points: 2918 More actions · Answer 2

Tom Uellner

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July 31, 2023 at 5:20 pm

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November 13, 2025

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 732663 More actions · Answer 3

Great guess, aligns with where the Data Community Summit is likely to be. Or Ignite.

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003331 More actions · Answer 4

Tom Uellner wrote:

November 13, 2025

That was going to be my guess and for the same reason.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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Tom Uellner SSCrazy Points: 2918 More actions · Answer 5

Jeff Moden wrote:

Tom Uellner wrote:
November 13, 2025
That was going to be my guess and for the same reason.

We can share the prize if this turns out to be the date. Hoping it's something sharable.

Johan Bijnens SSC Guru Points: 135146 More actions · Answer 6

I would rather like to know the current version of my Azure Managed Instance, which has been on 12.0.2000.8 for the last 5 years.

I can see the date change e.g to "

Microsoft SQL Azure (RTM) - 12.0.2000.8

Jan 26 2022 22:23:07

If I'm correct your poll is to the successor of SQL2022, right?

My guess "Sep 17, 2025" called SQLWorm

Major new feature: Everything system versioned up to the beginning ( or whatever you can afford )

Johan

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 732663 More actions · Answer 7

Ha, maybe you'll even get a subsidized license for that version from Dell, NetApp, or whoever your SAN vendor is if you system version everything. Add in Ledger tables and they'll give you a few free drives.

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Robin Wilson

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August 20, 2023 at 4:47 pm

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I'm going to go for 14/11/2025 with it being a Friday