Contest: SQL Server 2022 Needs a Slogan.

Now that Microsoft has announced that SQL Server 2022 is coming, it’s time for us to talk about a shameful truth:

SQL Server doesn’t sell itself.

Remember when everybody was talking about how MongoDB was Web Scale™? Or when Oracle was Unbreakable™? Even if you were making fun of it, the point was that you were talking about it, and that’s a buzz that SQL Server just doesn’t have.

I believe that you, dear reader, have the answer. I bet that you can come up with a snappy slogan. (The best I could do was “No one out-SQLs the Server,” and let’s be honest, that’s not really good.)

This week, while you’re learning about SQL Server 2022’s cool stuff in all the free training sessions, think about how we can market this thing and sell the heck out of some licenses.

Leave your best slogan in the comments before Saturday morning. Saturday morning, I’ll close the comments down, pick my favorite entries, and publish ’em in a post on Monday. My 3 favorite entries will win a Level 3 Bundle with a Live Class Season Pass, Recorded Class Season Pass, Consultant Toolkit, and SQL ConstantCare.

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309 comments

  1. SQL Server 2022 – The Linked Server Edition
    SQL Server 2022 – 1 Million Plans for 1 Querry
    SQL Server 2022 – Maybe Next Time

    1. That’s the nice one! Or maybe like this
      “SQL Server 2022: Select from Linked Cloud (powered by Azure™)”

  2. SQL 2022 – YOUR PROBLEM IS NOT OURS!

    SQL 2022 – PRESENTING THE NEW SQL 2022 WITH ADVANCED FEATURES THAT YOU REALLY DON’T NEED!

  3. SQL Server 2022 – When your parameters are more sensitive than a dental cavity

    SQL Server 2022 – We’re gonna need a bigger plan cache

  4. SQL Server 2022: Why not?
    SQL Server 2022: Why not everywhere?
    SQL Server 2022: When hybrid doesn’t cut it
    SQL Server 2022: To your data and beyond
    SQL Server 2022: cutting edge data

  5. SQL Server 2022: The Migration to a Monthly Azure Bill Wizard

    …at least that’s how most of the marketing seems to go…install this on-prem RDBMS that has no end of features designed to get you paying us monthly!

  6. Azure as the day, SQL Server 2022 leads the way.
    Azure as they say, SQL Server 2022 saves the day.
    Azure as the sun, SQL Server 2022 is the one.
    SQL Server 2022 – Confident, confident, (dry?) Reliable and Secure. Raise your hand, raise your hand, if you’re Azure! – SQL Fresh! 😀

  7. SQL Server 2022 – Azure or GTFO
    SQL Server 2022 – Faster than Brent’s Porsche
    SQL Server 2022 – Parameter sniffing part deux
    SQL Server 2022 – Query store? More like query more
    SQL Server 2022 – Bob Ward’s Big Bad World Tour of the Cloud

  8. SQL Server 2022 – Now closer to reading Execution Plans than you are!
    SQL Server 2022 – Now travels the unknown paths

  9. SQL Server ’22 It’s out the Whazoo!

    SQL Server ’22 All the Soups for you!

    SQL Server ’22 Start collecting new CU’s !

    1. Dang….. How about.

      SQL Server 2022. Just now upgrading to 2019? It was said to be the next big thing. 13 CU’s and maybe more. What’s 2022 got in store. I think I’ll wait until 2026 and go online where all this stuff is fixed.

  10. SQL Server 2022 – You can finally downgrade and bring back on-prem to escape from Azure’s constant tinkering!

  11. SQL Server 2022 – where NoSQL goes to die.
    SQL Server 2022 – you’ll migrate here when two more SQL versions come out.
    SQL Server 2022 – I can Azure you it’s less then AWS.

  12. SQL Server 2022 – Where backups are more then just dumps of data
    SQL Server 2022 – When being able to debug the linux kernel isn’t your thing

  13. SQL 2022 – All your memory belong to us.
    SQL 2022 – Just cloud it already.
    SQL 2022 – Azure Management Edition.

  14. SQL Server 2022 because SQL Server 2016 ain’t getting any younger and maybe you’ll upgrade if the new version is an even number.

  15. When you don’t need it fancy, when you don’t need it trendy, when you just need it to work – choose SQL server.

  16. SQL Server 2022 has the answers for all of the queries you haven’t thought to ask!

    SQL Server 2022 – 3 of a kind beats 2 pair! (a reference to the number of “2”s in 2022 & 2020)

  17. Well, another one:
    When one is too much, another is too little, SQL server is just in the middle matching 90% of your requirement for 10% of the price.

  18. SQL Server 2022: When you need to get a clue
    SQL Server 2022: Azure’s little Deuce Coup
    SQL Server 2022: The version for every data Guru

  19. It is a dark time for on-prem DBAs. Although the Stretch Database for tables have been unwelcomed, the Azure troops have captured DBAs from their drunken sleep and pursued them across the SQL Community with Azure certification trainings. Evading the dreaded Blockchain Ledger, a group of tasty beverage lovers led by BrentO has established a new secret techniques of Mastering performance tuning. The “evil” Microsoft, obsessed with indexing all you data, has dispatched thousands of remote Intelligent Query Processing Clippys into the far places that cloud should never reach…
    “SQL Server ep. 2022: Azure strikes back!”

  20. SQL 2022 – When You’re *Almost* Ready for the Cloud

    SQL 2022 – Because SQL2012 is going out of support soon!

    SQL 2022 – Joseph Heller’s RDBMS of Choice

    1. SQL 2022 – When Eventual Consistency Just Won’t Do.
      SQL 2022 – Trust Us, You Already Do. (Hear it in Yoda’s voice, you will)

  21. SQL Server 2022 – Passing Out Query Plans Like Oprah
    SQL Server 2022 – Waited an extra year for all this!
    SQL Server 2022 – Still won’t rename SSRS to Power BI
    SQL Server 2022 – Now with more ways Merge won’t work.

  22. SQL Server 2022 – The Key to your Data Estate
    SQL Server 2022 – Keep the Lights On
    SQL Server 2022 – Transeismic

  23. SQL Server 2022 – Upgrade today – My Friend says this is the best version ever………?

  24. SQL Server 2022 – Featuring things you didn’t know you needed to distract you from the ones you wanted and we never fixed or added in the first place…

  25. Yo dawg, I heard you like SQL, so I made a sequel to your SQL so you can Error 1205 : Transaction (Process ID) was deadlocked on resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Rerun the transaction.

  26. SQL Server 2022: let the challenge continue…

    SQL Server 2022: because we know you didn’t like 2020 and 2021 too.

  27. SQL Server 2022: Combining AI, crypto, and the metaverse into the only database platform you’ll ever need.

    Because, buzzwords, yo.

  28. Memento SQL Sever 2022 Semper.
    (Always Remember SQL Server 2022).

    Audaces SQL Server 2022 iuvat.
    (SQL Server 2022 favors the bold).

  29. “SQL Server 2022: Sharded Edition”
    I guess they’d have to develop some kind of sharding feature to do this but how awesome would that be.
    True active-active to compete with Oracle RAC, Vertica etc. not just off-loaded reads.

  30. SQL Server 2022 – Lets go to the next level
    SQL Server 2022 – Parameter sniffing is no more pain 🙂

  31. “SQL Server 2022: Easily stretch your Polybase-linked In-memory Temporal table with Columnstore and Fulltext indexes into Azure Cosmos Arc-Enabled Synapse AKS Purview Lake Edge with Pipelines of Open AI Cognitive Services for ML Databrikcs! (now with windows authentication)”

  32. “SQL Server: because every company needs an engine”
    “SQL Server: get the engine, drive results”
    “SQL Server: The most fun product from Microsoft since the XBox”
    “SQL Server: Start playing for free, start paying when it get serious”
    “SQL Server: The best things in life are free. Unless you need more than 10 GB”
    “SQL server: Buy now, wait later”
    “SQL Server: Instant Database Server, just add memory and go!”
    “SQL Server: Unleash your inner geek”
    “SQL Server: As seen on Youtube”
    “SQL Server: Just ask a friend!”

    or…

    “SQL Server 2022: Soon! In a Query Store near you!”
    “SQL Server 2022: Get it before it’s hot!”
    “SQL server 2022: The sky is no longer the limit, it’s your memory, storage, data connection speed…”
    “SQL Server 2022: Pay Purview”
    “SQL Server 2022: it’s Track Record is now Immutable!”

    “SQL Server 2022, because let’s forget 2020 and 2021 a.s.a.p.”
    “SQL Server 2022: Your booster shot for SQL Server 2019”

    And maybe…

    “SQL Server, because Brent will/can not help you with anything else”… ?

  33. “I don’t know about you
    But I’m feeling SQL Server 2022
    Everything will be alright if
    You keep me next to you” 🙂 catchy slogan i think hehe

  34. If you’re an older Walt Disney Word fan you’ll get this one

    SQL Server 2022: Endorsed by Chairman L.C. Clench of X-S Tech
    “If SQL Server can’t be done with X-S then it shouldn’t be done at all”

  35. SQL Server 2019: Boy, I don’t think next versions can beat me in terms of bugs
    SQL Server 2022 (in Clippy’s voice): Hey buddy, hold my beer.

  36. Me: What do you have this time?
    SQL Server 2022: We got “turbo powered” multi caching, that can whip parameter sniffing and get you results faster.
    Me: Are you sure that’s bug free?
    SQL Server 2022: Say what? It comes with a cup holder for your favorite beverage

  37. SQL Server 2022 – We still can’t give you filtered column results in SSMS on the GUI, but hey, we got you covered with multiple query plan storage! We look after the stuff that matters

  38. If you having girl problems I feel bad for you son, I got 2022 problems and parameter sniffing ain’t one ! 🙂

  39. SQL Server 2022 Failover to the cloud – improvements that will get you out of “the stickiest situation since Sticky the Stick Insect got stuck on a sticky bun”.

  40. World is running from artificial intelligence menace. But it’s already here. It’s the defining technology of our time, but it’s human ingenuity that makes it so powerful. Microsoft AI is helping DBAs to adapt to shooting themselves in their knees for decades now, and it’s just the beginning. Imagine the world full of opportunities, wh.e.rE I He.LpEd YoU wRite a prese.ntation, buddy. Now hey heeeey, buddy, wanna make an index?! The future we invent… is a choice you’ll make, buddy!
    “SQL Server 2022: you should’ve run faster, buddy!”

  41. Sql Server 2022 – specialist not required!
    Sql Server 2022 – you can inject so much sqls in this bad boy

  42. Memory grant feedback! V
    CE feedback! V
    DOP feedback! V
    Users feedb.. hm, nope, here’s a new for y’all, enjoy
    “SQL Server 2022: users want what we want them to want!”

  43. “SQL Server 2022: Easier to Fail”
    With New Server 2022, Microsoft gives you more ways to fail with improved bi-directional failover to Azure, streamlined failover settings, and expanded Azure HA and DR replicas* for off-site and geo-redundant databases.

    *Hybrid failover requires software assurance.

  44. “SQL Server 2022: Meta. Fail.”
    SQL Server 2022 speeds and offloads meta data processing with Azure Synapse with near-real time analysis using Transaction Log streams, reducing the need for slow ETL processing. Improved failover and redundancy options meet a wider variety of use cases.

    1. I probably stretched that explanation a bit. Defender for SQL is probably more of an improvement to the database ‘meta’ data features.

  45. “SQL Server 2022: Optimizes Query Plans like an MVP (almost)”

    “With NextGen Intelligent Query Processing (IQP), parameter sensitive plan optimization and multiple cached plans, Query Hints in the Plan Store, and Query Store read replicas, Microsoft SQL Server 2022 will handle challenging queries, while you go walk on the beach.”

      1. SQL Server 2022….literally just patched our clustered SQL Instance – SQL Server 2016 SP2 with SP3. So after we lift and shift our workloads, our data, and dare I say our souls to MS – data centers. What I really wanna know is…..where the hell are the docs for a migration path from 2016 SP3 to SQL 2022? 🙂

  46. SQL Server 2022 – Eliminating the need for DBA’s
    SQL Server 2022 – Eliminating the need for DBA’s
    SQL Server 2022 – Not your parents SQL Server
    SQL Server 2022 – Finally Over 21

  47. “SQL Server 2022 – Your first step towards Hotel California”
    “SQL Server 2022 – We can’t data-lock everyone, but at least we can try!”

    “SQL Server 2022 – Your second most expensive FTP server”
    “SQL Server 2022 – because Clippy sniffed new job opportunity”

    “NoSQL < NewSQL < SQL Server (2022)"

  48. “SQL Server 2022: I survived worldwide quarantine and all I got is DBCC SHRINKDATABASE WITH WAIT_AT_LOW_PRIORITY”

  49. Worry about your sensitive data? Or about the parameter plans?
    – Well Stop! Because SQL Server 2022 is here for the rescue (even for all your sensitive parameter plans).

  50. SQL Server 2022 RTM : Now with multiple plan cache. So, you don’t need Brent’s parameter sniffing class and waste your cash.
    CU1: Out of memory error fixed by removing multiple plan cache feature

  51. SQL Server 2022 – we make it easy for developers with little understanding of relational database to create a hot mess!

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