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=== SQL Server 2012 ===

At the 2011 [[Professional Association for SQL Server]] (PASS) summit on October 11, Microsoft announced that the next major version of SQL Server (codenamed "Denali"), would be SQL Server 2012. It was released to manufacturing on March 6, 2012.<ref name=2012-release>{{ cite web | title = Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2012 to Help Customers Manage "Any Data, Any Size, Anywhere" | url = http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2012/mar12/03-06SQLServer12PR.mspx | work = Microsoft News Center | publisher = Microsoft | accessdate = March 7, 2012 | date = March 6, 2012 }}</ref> SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 was released to manufacturing on November 97, 2012, Service Pack 2 was released to manufacturing on June 10, 2014, Service Pack 3 was released to manufacturing on December 1, 2015, and Service Pack 4 was released to manufacturing on October 5, 2017.

It was announced to be the last version to natively support [[OLE DB]] and instead to prefer [[ODBC]] for native connectivity.<ref name="ODBC">{{ cite web | title = Microsoft is Aligning with ODBC for Native Relational Data Access&nbsp;— FAQ | url = http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sqldataaccess/thread/e696d0ac-f8e2-4b19-8a08-7a357d3d780f | work = SQL Server Forums | publisher = Microsoft Corporation | accessdate = March 7, 2012 | last = Lam | first = Rohan }}</ref>