Microsoft has announced that it is bringing its popular SQL Server database software to Linux platforms for the first time, with its initial release scheduled for some time next year. In the world of ...

The Linux version of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 v.Next is a viable option for customers who want to deploy the RDBMS on an open source platform, but the early previews lack some features of the core ...

When Wim Coekaerts, Microsoft's vice president for open source, took the stage at LinuxCon 2016 in Toronto last summer, he came not as an adversary, but as a longtime Linux enthusiast promising to ...

When Microsoft announced a little over a week ago that it would be porting SQL Server to Linux by the middle of next year, it came as something of a surprise. Many people saw this as one more move ...

Microsoft continues to break down the barriers between Windows and everything else. The company said Monday it plans to release a version of SQL Server, one of its most successful business-software ...

So I work in business intelligence and mainly know the windows side of database management and am very familiar with SQL server manager. I have a personal project I'm looking to tackle and I'd like to ...

Microsoft on Monday announced the general availability of SQL Server 2017, now with support for Linux, at its Ignite conference in Orlando. The company first announced its plans for the newest ...

SQL Server 2017 went into general availability today. Today's release is a remarkable step in SQL Server's history, because it's not just a release for Windows. Today marks the general availability of ...

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Back in 2016, when Microsoft announced that SQL Server would soon run on Linux, the news came as a major surprise to users and pundits alike. Over the course of the last year, Microsoft’s support for ...