The history of Microsoft SQL Server begins with the first Microsoft SQL Server product –

SQL Server 1.0, a 16-bit server for the OS/2 operating system in 1989 - and extends to the
current day.

Milestones

 MS SQL Server for OS/2 began as a project to port Sybase SQL Server onto OS/2 in
1989, by Sybase, Ashton-Tate, and Microsoft.
 SQL Server 4.2 for NT is released in 1993, marking the entry onto Windows NT.
 SQL Server 6.0 is released in 1995, marking the end of collaboration with Sybase;
Sybase would continue developing their own variant of SQL Server, Sybase Adaptive
Server Enterprise, independently of Microsoft.
 SQL Server 7.0 is released in 1998, marking the conversion of the source code from C
to C++.
 SQL Server 2005, released in 2005, finishes the complete revision of the old Sybase
code into Microsoft code.
 SQL Server 2017, released in 2017, adds Linux support for these Linux platforms:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Ubuntu & Docker
Engine.[3]

Currently

As of October 2017, the following versions are supported by Microsoft:

 SQL Server 2008[4]

 SQL Server 2008 R2
 SQL Server 2012
 SQL Server 2014
 SQL Server 2016
 SQL Server 2017

From SQL Server 2016 onward, the product is supported on x64 processors only.[5]

The current version is Microsoft SQL Server 2017, released October 2, 2017. The RTM
version is 14.1709.3807.1.

The next version is slated for release in the second half of 2019[6].