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 ...

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 ...

SQL Server on Linux maintains the same enterprise-level features as on Windows, including high availability and performance. And, despite some misperceptions, DBAs may employ many of the same tools ...

Microsoft porting SQL Server to Linux is not an early April Fool's joke. The company is deadly serious about this move. Some people are asking why. After all, with MySQL, MariaDB, postgreSQL, and ...

Microsoft SQL Server 2025 finally hit general availability today, following a private preview a year ago and a public preview back in May. That said, the AI-focused release is still in a public ...

When in March this year Microsoft announced that it was bringing SQL Server to Linux the reaction was one of surprise, with the announcement prompting two big questions: why and how? SQL Server is one ...

Now available in a public preview, SQL Server for Linux aims to be full-featured like the Windows edition and a robust, long-term choice for enterprises Those who wondered what it would be like to run ...

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Microsoft SQL Server installation is simple when system requirements and edition choices are planned.Choosing the right authentication mode, such as ...

SQL Server, Microsoft’s flagship relational database product, is now available on Linux in the form of an early private preview, with a full launch planned for mid-2017. Until now, SQL Server was ...