When will Microsoft officially release SQL Server 2023 (or 2024, or whatever it’ll be) for download? The dust is just barely starting to settle on the 2022 box, so it’s time to guess the next one.
- Leave one – and only one – comment here in YYYY/MM/DD format with your release date guess. If you leave multiple comments, only the first/earliest one is going to count.
- “The release date” is the date that Microsoft announces that the final RTM bits will be downloadable to the public from www.Microsoft.com. (Not the date they make the announcement, and we’re only talking the release-to-manufacturing public version, not a preview, CTP, RC, CU, or SP.)
- Closest to win, without going over, wins lifetime access to my Fundamentals & Mastering recorded classes.
- In the event of a tie (multiple people guessing the same date), the earlier comment wins.
- Only comments more than 48 hours before 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 – like 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.)
Place your bets!
227 Comments. Leave new
2024/04/01
2025/05/05
2025-11-05
2023/10/10
2024/11/13
2024/06/01
2025/10/30
2024-06-24
2024/09/14
2025/03/04
$1, I mean 2024/11/12
2025/03/13
2024/10/28
2025/03/29
2024/11/06
2024-06-03T11:00:00
Oops, “wrong” format. It should be 2024/06/03 (same guess tho, right?) D’oh!
2038/1/19 03:14:07 UTC
2022/11/11
correction, 2024/11/11
2024/10/28
2023/12/05
2024-11-18
2025/10/19
2024/03/15
2024/04/22
2024/11/20
2025/11/07
2024/11/23
2024/11/06
2024/10/13
2024-11-13 (November 13, 2024)
2024/02/19
2024/11/14
2025/11/05
2023/05/29
2024/10/15
2023/11/13
2023-10-23
2024/11/26
2025/11/20
2024/11/13
2024/05/25
2024/11/12
2024/07/08
2024/11/27
2023/12/01
2024/02/12
2025-04-20
2024/11/16
2024/11/15
2025/11/05
6/15/2024
2023/01/26
2024/11/21
2023/03/16
2024/10/24
2023/10/30
2025-07-12
2024/06/13
2024/11/20
2025/11/13
2024/03/26
2024/09/21
2025/12/01
2024/11/11
2024/11/01
2024/05/03
2025/11/10
2025/11/13
2024/05/14
2024/11/22
2025/11/03
SQL 2022 will be the final boxed product MS will ship. If you want new features you can get them in Azure SQL and Managed Instance.
2024/11/04
2025/03/25
2024/04/08
2025/11/12
2024/09/17
June 18th, 2024
2024/09/19
2025/02/17
2024/11/15
2023/11/27
2024/11/18
2024/11/01
2024/11/19
2025/11/12
2024/03/12
2025/06/01
2024/11/17
‘20251111’
2024/05/03
2023/11/01
2024/02/04
2025/11/05
2024/09/22
2026/11/12
2025-09-01
2024/03/10
2023/11/15
2024/09/29
2023/12/06
2025/11/15
2025/something/something – Best answer: Don’t care I should be retired by then.
12/1/2024
2024/11/08
2025/11/18
2024/02/29
2024/05/01
2024/10/04
2025/04/01
13/11/2024
2024/11/22
2024/10/09
2024/06/17
2024/10/07
2024/06/06
03/22/2024
2024/03/17
2025/09/07
2025/01/18
2025/02/10
2025/11/19
Off topic – but does Richie scrape the dates off the page when it’s time to choose the winner or do you manually find the winner?
I manually find ’em. I just search using the date format that’s specified in the blog post. It’s always so amazing to me that people can’t follow simple, short instructions!
*programmatically scraping the dates is what I mean.
11/24/2024
2024/10/14
2025/03/21
2024/07/31
2024/11/10
2025/09/17
6/12/2024
20250731
2025/4/1
2023/11/17
2024-11-15
2024-11-05
2025/03/15
2023/11/7
2023/06/19
2025/11/14
2024/11/10
2023/02/06
2026/02/01
2024/08/01
2024-06-04
2025/01/14
2025/02/11
2025/10/20
2024/03/08
2023/02/08
2025/11/11
2024/11/12
2024/10/11
2024/07/13
2024/02/05
2022/11/20
2024/11/20 …. correct year 🙂
2024/05/27
2025-09-08
2026/06/06
2026/03/31
2025/10/10
2024/11/23
DECLARE @release_date DATE = ‘20241117’
2025-11-11
2023/07/19
2023/07/28
2025/05/25
2025/09/08, in the right format this time!!!!
2024/04/16
2024/11/05
2024/03/14
2024/10/30
2024/11/29
2023/12/01
2024/10/12
2024/06/25
2024/10/23
12/2/2024
2024/12/02 – My bad. Had wrong format
2023/11/08
2023/12/22
2024/10/11
2025/3/26
2024/11/16
2026/09/15
2025/11/11
2023/04/01
2022/12/12
2024/09/15
2023/11/29
2024/09/28
2024-05-06
2025/11/14
2025/02/05
2025/11/19
2025/11/05
2024/05/15
2025/02/24
2024/10/24
2023/8/23
202/11/08
2024/11/08
2025/11/19
2024/08/14
2023/10/10
2026/06/06
2026/07/28
…if they do ever release “SQL Server 20xx” again. Personally I think they’ll go to “Azure DB” or something silly like that…
I would doubt it just because vendors need something to certify their apps against.
2025/9/15
2025/03/13
2025/10/10
2024/06/05
2024
2024/03/17
2025/10/20
2025/09/15
2025/12/12
First day of Pass Summit of the SQL Server Release Year
2025/06/09
2026/11/30
2023-10-21
2023-02-29
Psst: today is September 1, 2023, chief