SQL Server 2025

SQL Server 2025 license keys: Standard and Enterprise, each a RETAIL License for 1 server. You enter the key once, when you install SQL Server. Right after your payment is confirmed, we email you a secure link to your license, with your invoice.

In SQL Server 2025, Microsoft raised the limits of Standard to the lesser of 4 sockets or 32 cores and 256 GB of buffer pool memory per instance; in SQL Server 2022 and earlier, Standard is limited to the lesser of 4 sockets or 24 cores and 128 GB. Enterprise uses the operating system maximum. Microsoft’s extended support end date for SQL Server 2025 is January 6, 2036.

Make sure your application supports SQL Server 2025 before you buy, and check the system requirements tab on each product page. Need a server to run it on? Browse Windows Server license keys. Looking for an earlier version? See SQL Server 2022 and SQL Server 2019.