Exclusive IT asset management platform Lansweeper has issued a warning to business administrators everywhere. Just how old is the Microsoft SQL Server your business depends on?
SQL Server registered servers
According to chief strategy officer Roel Decneut, the biz scanned just over a million instances of SQL Server and found that 19.8 percent were now unsupported by Microsoft. Twelve percent were running SQL Server 2014, which will be discontinued from extended support on July 9 – meaning the share will be 32 percent at the start of next month.
Old SQL servers linger in this breakdown of the study – image: Lansweeper
For a fee, customers can continue to receive security updates for SQL Server 2014 for an additional three years. Still, the discovery underscores a potential problem facing users of Microsoft's flagship database: Is your business dependent on something that should have been put out to pasture long ago?
