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Support for SQL Server 2016 is ending, although it is still widely used
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Fusion42 · 20 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Microsoft has ended support for SQL Server 2016 after a ten-year lifecycle; the company acknowledges the version remains widely used in enterprise environments, leaving organisations without security updates, bug fixes, or technical support unless they migrate or purchase extended security updates.
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If you're building migration tooling, data platform services, or enterprise SaaS on SQL infrastructure, millions of databases just became unsupported and exposed - your customer base just tripled in urgency. Sell migration, compliance remediation, or extended-support brokerage: that's a captive market with a hard deadline.
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