Where can I get the link to download SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition 64 Bit ?

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Where can I get the link to download SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition 64 Bit ?

GAURAV SRIVASTAVA 60

How can I download SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition 64 Bit from Microsoft Web Site ?

LiHongMSFT-4306 31,571 Reputation points

2023-12-27T02:35:19.9366667+00:00

Hi @GAURAV SRIVASTAVA

How can I download SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition 64 Bit from Microsoft Web Site?

There is no official link to download SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition.

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LiHongMSFT-4306 31,571 Reputation points

2023-12-27T02:35:19.9366667+00:00

Hi @GAURAV SRIVASTAVA

How can I download SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition 64 Bit from Microsoft Web Site?

There is no official link to download SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition.

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Erland Sommarskog 121.9K MVP Volunteer Moderator

You can't. It is not publicly available for download. Never has been. At least not legally.

If you have a Visual Studio subscription, it is available from Visual Studio downloads. (But keep in mind that if you intend it for production, you need to have a license from elsewhere. What you get from VS downloads is not licensed for production, as I recall.)

Else, if you have a valid license for SQL Server 2014 Standard, contact Microsoft, and I am sure that they will arrange for the media one way or another.

If you don't have a valid license, you need to get one. Which would be for SQL 2022, since SQL 2014 is not for sale anymore. And then you would have to request for the SQL 2014 media, one way or another.

GAURAV SRIVASTAVA 60 Reputation points

2023-12-27T06:57:09.38+00:00

Actually we have SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition installed in production environment with valid license and product key. But we need to move database to another server with better infrastructure. For this purpose, we need to install SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition on the other server. That's why I need media for SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition.

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Olaf Helper 47,516

That's why I need media for SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition.

The installer is for yll editions the same. So you could use free Evaluation Edition + you licenses key to install it as Standard Edition.

But version 2014 is out-of-support, MS don't offer a download of Eval 2014.

Manos PETRIDIS 0 Reputation points

2024-01-23T11:21:44.7366667+00:00

Having in mind SQL Server's inability to read/deal with backups from (much) older versions, Microsoft's restrictions as it regards not offering previous versions for download is short-sighted. For example, in order to restore an SQL Server 2000 backup file to a current version SQL server, one has to install almost all intermediate versions, and perform backup and restore n times, from version to succeding version.
Erland Sommarskog 121.9K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2024-01-23T22:19:40.39+00:00

To be fair, the issue is with SQL 2000 (and even older versions). Microsoft learnt their lesson, and all versions up to SQL 2022 can read backups from SQL 2005. But, yes, today upgrading an SQL 2000 instance can be a challenge. Then again, SQL 2000 have been out of all support for more than ten years. And the last version that could read an SQL 2000 backup has been out of support for five years. There is a price for staying behind.

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