Windows Server 20 R2 Extended Support will end on October 10, 2023.

SQL Server 2012 Extended Support will end on July 12, 2022.SQL Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012, and 2012 R2 End of Extended support is approaching: This can lead to the potential for compliance gaps for workloads that still rely on these versions and create missed opportunities to apply innovation to business-critical workloads. While new innovations keep lighting up in the latest releases of SQL Server and Windows Server, support for older versions along with security updates will eventually end. In March of 2021, we announced Windows Server 2022 in preview, which thousands of customers are already previewing for their workloads.

Similarly, customers like CadDo are combining SQL Server 2019 with Windows Server 2019 to take advantage of advanced multi-layer security, hybrid capabilities, and enhancements to modernize applications with containers. With SQL Server, customers like Itaú Unibanco are taking advantage of the built-in intelligence, industry-leading performance, and security across both structured and unstructured data.

Customers trust Windows Server and SQL Server for their business-critical workloads.

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