Microsoft SQL Server 2014 CTP1

Download SQL Server 2014 CTP1 Release

First public preview release of SQL Server 2014 download is available for database professionals free trial and evaluation.

SQL Server database professionals can download SQL Server 2014 free for evaluation purposes and experience the new in-memory features of new SQL Server 2014 database engine.

Microsoft announced SQL Server 2014, new version of SQL Server which brings in-memory OLTP (OnLine Transaction Processing) features especially for SSRS, datawarehouse and Big Data analyses during TechEd North America on 4th of June. The first public preview release of SQL Server 2014 CTP1 is available since 25th of June for free download and evaluation of database professionals.

Microsoft has released public available SQL Server 2014 download for data professionals.

Although the final release of SQL Server 2014 and SQL Server 2014 release date for RTM version is not clear yet, data professionals can enjoy the features with SQL Server 2014 CTP1 introduces. Especially the new in-memory capabilities introduced with SQL Server 2014 will be the major interest point for many SQL Server data platform users.

SQL Server database administrators, SQL developers and Business Intelligence (BI) professionals can download SQL Server 2014 from Microsoft Download web portal or from TechNet Evaluation Center.

First public preview release CTP1 for SQL Server 2014 download has 3 download or evaluate options. You can download SQL2014 as ISO 64-bit, CAB 64-bit or preview it on Azure. The evaluation downloads only support 64-bit. There is no released X86 edition for the first CTP of SQL Server 2014. And the download bits are around 3 GB of each edition (either as .ISO file or .CAB file)