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SQL Server 2019 Administrator's Guide - Second Edition

You're reading from  SQL Server 2019 Administrator's Guide - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789954326
Pages 522 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Marek Chmel Marek Chmel
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Vladimír Mužný Vladimír Mužný
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Provisioning the SQL Server Environment
2. Chapter 1: Setting Up SQL Server 2019 3. Chapter 2: Keeping Your SQL Server Environment Healthy 4. Section 2: Server and Database Maintenance
5. Chapter 3: Implementing Backup and Recovery 6. Chapter 4: Securing Your SQL Server 7. Chapter 5: Working with Disaster Recovery Options 8. Chapter 6: Indexing and Performance 9. Section 3: High Availability and the Cloud with SQL Server 2019
10. Chapter 7: Planning Migration and Upgrade 11. Chapter 8: Automation – Using Tools to Manage and Monitor SQL Server 2019 12. Chapter 9: Configuring Always On High Availability Features 13. Chapter 10: In-Memory OLTP – Why and How to Use it 14. Chapter 11: Combining SQL Server 2019 with Azure 15. Chapter 12: Taming Big Data with SQL Server 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

The importance of keeping up with latest version

An important reason to upgrade is to continue to obtain the latest support for SQL Server. Once the mainstream support for SQL Server ends, there will be no more service packs or cumulative updates bringing fixes and updates to your current version of SQL Server.

As you can see from the following table, just three SQL Server versions are supported as of now (summer 2020) and those are SQL Server 2016, SQL Server 2017, and the current SQL Server 2019:

Fig. 7.1 – SQL version support end dates

Although many of the older versions are not supported anymore, this does not mean they are not used in production environments. The preceding table does not list all the SQL Server versions. There are even older systems that can be used today, but those fell out of support a long time ago. Also, note that SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 share an end date for mainstream support, although...

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