We accumulate and retain documentation for very old versions of SQL Server in a set of archive webpages. The archived webpages are not processed by search engines, such as Bing.com and Google.com. But you can see these archives at our Docs previous-versions/ address:
These archives include the documentation for at least the following older versions:
- SQL Server 2012
- SQL Server 2008 R2
- SQL Server 2008
- SQL Server 2005
SQL Server 2014 documentation is still processed by search engines.
SQL Server 2016, and later versions, are documented here.