{"id":63,"date":"2014-03-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com\/blog\/sql-server-2014-rtm-release-date"},"modified":"2026-03-18T21:50:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:50:54","slug":"sql-server-2014-rtm-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/18\/sql-server-2014-rtm-release-date\/","title":{"rendered":"SQL Server 2014 RTM &#8211; Release Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Microsoft announced that SQL Server 2014 RTM will be generally available on April 1st, 2014. In addition to this wonderful piece of information; Quentin Clark (Corporate Vice President, Data Platform Group), Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and COO Kevin Turner will be conducting an, \u201cAccelerate your Insights,\u201d web-event on April 15th at 10am PDT where they will talk more about the release and their strategy for the data platform.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the announcements here \u2013 (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/microsoft_blog\/archive\/2014\/03\/18\/sql-server-2014-released-to-manufacturers-will-be-generally-available-april-1.aspx\">blogs.technet.com<\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/windowsazure\/archive\/2014\/03\/18\/sql-server-2014-released-to-manufacturing-windows-azure-hdinsight-supporting-hadoop-2-2-generally-available.aspx\">blogs.msdn.com<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/dataplatforminsider\/archive\/2014\/03\/18\/sql-server-2014-releases-april-1.aspx\">MS Data Platform Insider<\/a>).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/dh.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><strong>Written by Derik Hammer of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com\/\">SQL Hammer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Derik is a data professional focusing on Microsoft SQL Server. His passion focuses around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com\/blog\/category\/high-availability\/\">high-availability<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com\/blog\/category\/general\/disaster-recovery\/\">disaster recovery<\/a>, continuous integration, and automated maintenance. his experience has spanned long-term database administration, consulting, and\u00a0entrepreneurial ventures.<\/p>\n<p>Derik gives the SQL community credit for plugging the gaps in his knowledge when he was a junior DBA and, now that his skills have matured, started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com\/\">SQLHammer.com<\/a> as one small way to give back and continue the cycle of shared learning.<\/p>\n<p>Derik is the owner and lead author of SQL Hammer, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com\/\">Microsoft SQL Server resource<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com\/\">http:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com<\/a>. Follow Derik on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/SQLHammer\">Twitter<\/a> for <strong>SQL tips and chat<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Microsoft announced that SQL Server 2014 RTM will be generally available on April 1st, 2014. In addition to this wonderful piece of information; Quentin Clark (Corporate Vice President, Data Platform Group), Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and COO Kevin Turner will be conducting an, \u201cAccelerate your Insights,\u201d web-event on April 15th at 10am PDT where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}