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Meet Business Challenges with a Trusted Platform - gain the data platform you need to reduce cost, speed time-to-market, and gain insights into new opportunities with SQL Server 2012.

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  • Address Your Most Pressing Data Needs

    Gain the data platform you need to reduce costs, speed time-to-market, and gain insights into new opportunities with SQL Server 2012. With Breakthrough capabilities, SQL Server 2012 helps you address the evolving data management, development, and business intelligence (BI) needs - all at a low total-cost-of-ownership.

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  • Download SQL Server 2012

    SQL Server 2012 is a cloud-ready information platform that will help organizations unlock breakthrough insights across the organization and quickly build solutions to extend data across on-premises and public cloud backed by mission critical confidence.

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    Microsoft SQL Server 2014 brings to market new in-memory capabilities built into the core database, including in-memory OLTP, which complements our existing in-memory data warehousing and BI capabilities for the most comprehensive in-memory database solution in the market. SQL Server 2014 also provides new cloud capabilities to simplify cloud adoption for your SQL databases and help you unlock new hybrid scenarios.

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  • How to Buy

    Invest in a Trusted Data Platform - choose the edition that is right for you, and then select from various options to purchase your SQL Server 2012 licenses. Learn more about licensing options, purchasing options, and pricing.

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Which Edition is Right for You?

Enterprise Edition

Enterprise is ideal for Mission Critical and Applications Data Warehousing

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Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence for Premium Self-Service and Corporate Business Intelligence

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Standard Edition

Standard continues to offer basic database, reporting and analytics capabilities

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Express Edition

Express is a free edition ideal for developing and powering desktop, web and small server applications

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The Web Developer and Express editions are available in the SQL Server 2012 release. For more information, please refer to the SQL Server 2012 Datasheet and FAQ