Debbi Lyons and Vijay Kumar have a reminder for us:
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. 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. SQL Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012, and 2012 R2 End of Extended support is approaching:
– SQL Server 2012 Extended Support will end on July 12, 2022.
– Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 Extended Support will end on October 10, 2023.
The news this week has mostly been about SQL Server 2016 ending mainstream support, but this is a bigger one. Fortunately, there’s still a year to procrastinate plan.