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Nearly 20% of Microsoft SQL Servers running have passed end of support (www.theregister.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Apparently, it is not only my oberservation, but the article says similarly:

The inconsistent approach to backward compatibility in decades past may also have played a part.

However, I'm not a db admin and my perspective might be biased (infosec).

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I don't know what they're talking about there, but that might just be ignorance on my part, because I'm not a database administrator. For the basic use cases, SQL hasn't changed in decades. For simple applications you could even change from MSSQL to MariaDB to postgres and make only minor changes.