Eagle-eyed @NikoNeugebauer (who you should definitely be following on Twitter) noticed something interesting in one of Lenovo’s recent TPC-H benchmark results.
In the #TPCH document, the availability of the system with #SQLServer 2017 is listed for 19th of October 2017 🙂https://t.co/Y3VNQt9buZ
— Niko Neugebauer (@NikoNeugebauer) July 18, 2017
The benchmark PDF shows:
Now this isn’t necessarily accurate – someone could have just stuffed in a placeholder date, or maybe SQL Server 2017 will be available earlier but the hardware is delayed until 2017/10/19, or maybe Lenovo’s trolling us.
Also, note that in the pricing section, SQL Server Enterprise Edition comes in at around $7k per core, indicating that there’s no big revolution coming in the pricing department.
I don’t consider this an official announcement by any means, so the Guess the SQL Server 2017 Release Date Contest is still on.
In related news, the SQL Server 2017 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) downloads are available now. Enjoy!
Update 2017/09/25: Looks like the release date was pretty doggone close, about two weeks off. The real date will be October 2.
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When RC3 comes out we will know if it is in October
Enterprise at 7k/core WOULD be a pricing revolution. Must be a typo.
Greg – that’s actually the price for Enterprise Edition.
Actually based on the information on the Microsoft website it will be October 2nd, 2017
Link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-downloads
Yes, read the post.