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With Extended Support for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 ending in July 2019, to be followed six months later by the end of Extended Support for Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 in January 2020 ...

Hyperscale combines strong write performance, flexible storage and fast replica creation for databases of nearly any size.