We’ve been doing this a while now, and time to kick it off again.
- Leave one – and only one – comment here with your guess of the date. If you leave multiple comments, only the first/earliest one is going to count.
- “The date” is the date that Microsoft announces as the release date. (Not the date they announce the release date, but the date where the final RTM bits will be downloadable to non-insiders, ordinary folks with MSDN access.)
- Closest to win, without going over, wins an Everything Bundle.
- In the event of a tie, the earlier comment wins.
- Only comments more than 48 hours earlier than Microsoft’s public release announcement will count. If Microsoft makes their announcement, and you run over here trying to leave a fast comment with the release date, not gonna take it.
- If Microsoft announces two release dates – one for Windows, and one for Linux – then we’ll pick a separate winner for each. (But you only get to leave one date in the comments.)
So what date are you feelin’?
Update 2017/02/23: Helpful reader Brian Boodman wanted to see what dates people were guessing, so he writes:
Quick and dirty C# snippet for “Guess the SQL Server vNext Release Date”. To use, save https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2017/02/guess-sql-server-vnext-release-date-contest/ to c:\tmp\toto\brentdate.html” using Chrome and run the code. The results of this script are intended to be read by a human. http://pastebin.com/nUTTEkqc Modify as needed. Dates earlier than 2017 are very unreliable.
Update 2017/09/25: Looks like the release date will be October 2, 2017! The winner is Martin Surasky, who guessed it first on July 19th. Runners-up are Stephen Holland (who guessed Oct 3 on Feb 17) and Joe Bednarz (who guessed Oct 1 on Feb 17).
286 Comments.
1st June 2017
June 10th 2017
June 3rd 2017
Maybe you should post the desired date format – European commenters probably prefer dd/mm while the Americans use mm/dd… might be confusing when looking for the winner 🙂
May 1st 2017
Windows Aug 24 2017
6 June 2018
July 21st 2017
2017-07-16
May 8, 2017
April 1st, 2018.
April 3, 2018
June 1, 2018
June 28th 2017
August 3rd 2017
August 1st 2017
August 4th 2017
May 19, 2017
June 9 2017
April 4
July 1, 2017
(By the way they already said it would be mid-year, it was uhhh “slipped” on the PowerBI SSRS blog).
June 7, 2017
2017-05-31
May 29, 2017
2nd June 2017
July 10th, 2017
June 13th
June 16th 2017
May 5 2017
July 20 2017 (I will be hungover from a Metallica concert the night before).
October 1, 2017
August 12th 2017
June 20 2017
June 26, 2017
Oct 9th 2017
October 27, 2017
June 6th 2017
May 10, 2017
I’m shooting for July 17th, but very much hoping it’s sooner than that – pulling for the people that guessed March 🙂
June 21, 2017
July 11, 2017
June 21, 2017
July 5th 2017
May 17, 2017
August 8, 2017
July 7th
June 7 2017
May 21, 2017
Aug 15, 2017
August 7, 2018
2017-07-05 (YYYY-MM-DD)
August 11, 2017
07/24/2017
June 19, 2017
July 17th, 2017
July 13, 2017
1 September 2017
September 11, 2017
June 22, 2017
June 2nd, 2017
August 17, 2017
July 28, 2017
August 27, 2017
July 17, 2017
August 7th, 2017
One Dollar!
July 24th, 2017
June 13 2017
I mean June 12 2017!
July19th
June 21st, 2017
July 19th
07-07–2017
June 15th, 2017
June 27 2017
August 23, 2017
June 7, 2017
October 3, 2017
March 27th 2017
April 20, 2017
June 23, 2017
June 1, 2017
1st of June 2017
June 17, 2017
June 14, 2017
June 14, 2017
June 5th
April 1, 2017
September 11, 2017
June 8, 2017
March 30, 2017
July 25, 2017
14th September 2017
July 2nd
June 6, 2017
July 9, 2017
August 7 2017
October 31, 2017
‘2017-09-15’
😀
That’s September 15 in case you are searching by month name 🙂
5/31/2017
I mean 6/11/17. my earlier guess was already taken.
Oct 18, 2017
June 22, 2018
October 6th, 2017
’30th February 2017′ – I stored the date as a character string 🙁
As it is an invalid date, you cannot store Feb 30, 2017 as a datetime.
May 15, 2018
March 16, 2017
Sept 1 2017
6-18-2017 But I really like the person who selected Feb 30th…..lol
June 25th
May 10th 2017 During build
2017-08-14
August 09, 2017
Aug, 9 th, 2017
June 4th
June 24th, 2017
Cody already called 7/1, which is what I really wanted, so I’ll take 6/30/17
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April 1st, 2017 🙂
June 30th, 2017
April 5, 2018
2017.09.01.
August 14th 2017
June 20, 2017
July 1, 2017
Oct. 26, 2017
July 13th, 2017
August 2nd, 2017
August 13, 2017
July 2nd 2017, but I don’t need the Everything Bundle (I already won one)
triple-threat format:
2017-11-01
11/01/2017
November 1st, 2017
August 14, 2017 Remember Microsoft Ignite is September 25–29, 2017, Orlando, FL
Sept 4th, 2017
October 10, 2017… Come on 10-10-17!
17th July 2017
June 5, 2018
July 3, 2017
July 12th, 2017
August 11, 2017
Crud! I meant August 15th, 2017
15-May-2017
April 1, 2017
July 2, 2017
May 13, 2017. Even if I lose, it is still my birthday. 🙂
Sep 4, 2017
2017-08-01
September 18, 2017
September 21, 2017
May 31st, 2018
15th November 2017
May 25th 2017
5th June
July 4, 2017
13th July 2017
July 27, 2017
27 September 2017
2017-03-12
May 9th 2017
26th July 2017
March 31st 2017
July 6, 2017
20171111
May 11th 2017
2017-07-01
20171214 = 14th December 2017
16th June 2017
1th July 2018
19th July 2017
29 Oct 2017
17 June 2017
Aug 22, 2017
Aug 21, 2017
May 2nd 2017
26.06.2017
september 18th, 2017
October 21st, 2017
2017-07-03
26th June, 2017
4th May, 2017
July 17th
(Wife’s birthday…..It won’t be her present)
2017-09-23
July 23 2017. I’ll be in Paris for our first wedding anniversary.
17 August 2017
16 June 2017
2017-04-07 (for the SQLBits keynote…)
May-30-2017 for windows,
and 17 March for CTP 1.4
20170907
September 7, 2017
09/07/2017
Could you provide a more user-friendly overview of dates already mentioned?
How will you sort it out when evaluating? Could you help us with that, too?
Please, do add a simple calendar showing which dates are already mentioned and allowing to just pick one and confirm if we really want to bet on that date?
7th June 2017
2017-07-08 (July 8th)
June 20 2017
June 15th 2017
1st Aug 2018
June 1st, 2017
August 28, 2017
2017-07-15
1st March,2017
June 6th 2017
1st May 2017
July 14th 2017
25th June 2018
June 4 2018
8/8/18
July 26,2017
July 11th, 2017
July 31th 2017
July 15 2017
July 25
July 15, 2017
May 14, 2017
http://pastebin.com/C5nFPhAW
Trying to see which dates have been entered? Save this page to disk and modify script linked above as necessary to get it to run.
June 29th, 2017
04/10/2018
23rd October 2017
November 2nd, 2017
(2017/11/02)
June, 30th, 2017
March 7th, 2018
July 1st, 2017
August 22th, 2017
Oct 11 2017
Aug 17 2017
June 15th
1st august 2017
May 6th, 2018
April 4th, 2018
November 22, 2017
October 19th, 2017
October 5, 2017
September 26, 2017
October 17, 2017
October 2nd, 2017
October 18th, 2017
October 12, 2017
November 1 – At the PASS Summit Keynote
September 12th, 2017
Oct 9, 2017
November 1, 2017
2017-09-20 (or actually a little later at Ignite.)
2017-10-31
10/23/2017
4th of October
October 30
October 31, 2017
November 1, 2017
June 12 2018 for the Mac version 😉
October 9th, 2017
September 25th, 2017
15th November 2017
Monday September 4, 2017
November 7, 2017
5th September 2017
10/17/2017
14th October 2017
November 1st 2017
1st Oct 2017
18th September
September 13th 2017
11.17.2017
October 2nd 2017
October 9th 2017
September 4th 2017
October 7th
September 26th 2017
SEPT 25th 2017
November 3rd 2017
October 19th
October 23, 2017
Dec 1st 2017
October 19, 2017
September 18 2017
Dec 1st 2017
September 4th, 2017
11.1.2017
October 20th, 2017
9th November 2017
25.10.2017
Oct 16, 2017
October 26, 2017
November 21, 2017
December 11th 2017
18th Oct 2017
11th Oct 2017
27th Oct 2017
September, 30 2017
October 2nd