Microsoft SQL Server
SQL Server 2025 redefines what's possible for enterprise data. With developer-first features and integration with analytics and AI models, SQL Server 2025 accelerates AI innovation using the data you already have.
Microsoft SQL Server is commercial database software made by Microsoft. Its English Wikipedia article has about 945 readers a month on phones.
- Made by
- Microsoft
- Wikipedia readers on phones
- 945 a month
- Source code
- Closed
Judgement
- What it is
- Building block
- What it does
- Microsoft's relational database with T-SQL, reporting and integration services, running on Windows, Linux or as Azure SQL.
- Adopt it when
- Your business runs .NET applications or vendor software that requires SQL Server.
- Watch out
- Per-core licensing of Standard and Enterprise editions is costly; Express is free but capped.
- Ready for
- Production-ready
- Runs as
- Self-hosted server and cloud service
- Built with
- SQL and T-SQL
- What the license allows
- Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Judged on 2026-11-03 from the maker's description and Wikipedia. The license and age lines are worked out directly.
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