Table_title: Releases Table_content: header: | Version | Start Date | End Date | row: | Version: Extended Security Update Year 4 ( Microsoft Learn Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Service Pack 2

Official public downloads for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 are largely restricted because the software reached its official End of Life (EOL)

If you are a developer learning for historical purposes, install the on a virtual machine. If you are a business still running this in production, treat the download as a temporary stopgap while you aggressively plan a migration to SQL Server 2019 or Azure SQL Database.