Microsoft released SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 this week and announced that it's available for download.

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Microsoft issued some reminders this week that July 9, 2019, is the last day of patch support for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2.

Click the "Download" button to download the entire Feature Pack, or scroll to the bottom half of the page and locate the "Microsoft SQL Server OLE DB Provider" links.

However, to get "maximum virtualization" rights with SQL Server 2008 R2, customers will have to pay for the more expensive Datacenter product license, per Microsoft's overview document (PDF download).