The program is available to all web hosting customers of the company at no additional cost.

DiscountASP.NET, a Windows Hosting provider, yesterday announced the launch of a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 hosting beta program available to all its web hosting customers at no additional cost.

The company avers that Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (code named ‘Denali’) is the next generation of Microsoft’s enterprise database product which will be released in 2012. The currently available version is SQL Server 2012 RC0 which is the version that is being offered for this free beta hosting offer. Its customers can enable their free SQL Server 2012 hosting beta sandbox database through their hosting account control panel. The beta will end a week after the official SQL 2012 launch.

“We are proud to be one of the first hosts to offer our web hosting customers with an opportunity to get a jumpstart in testing next generation SQL Server technology,” said Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing and Business Development at DiscountASP.NET. “This labs program is an example of the type of value added previews that we provide our customers and differentiates our hosting service.”