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SQL Server may be too lucrative for Microsoft to ditch, but too legacy to love

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While Microsoft sweeps the confetti off the floor of its Build event, it may be a good moment to reflect on what it didn't say as much as what it did. Taking the spotlight was AI agent Scout, ready to "understand how work gets done" and "take action without needing to be prompted." The software behemoth's leading database, SQL Server, barely got a mention.

On its own, it may not be a big deal, but Microsoft watchers also noted that long-time SQL Server champion Rohan Kumar left the company in June, while Arun Ulag, president of Azure Data, currently holds the SQL Server remit. He's also responsible for the Fabric analytics and AI platform and a portfolio of open source database services.

Taken together with the news that Microsoft's own terms and conditions allow customers to take SQL Server licenses to AWS's RDS database servicewithout paying twice –...

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