If you can run SQL Server on Linux, well, that's one less reason to use Windows. And while SQL Server does share heritage with Sybase SQL Server (now called SAP ASE), a Unix database server that ...

If you're running the latter on beefy hardware necessary to manage the overhead of both Window Server and SQL Server, the advent of SQL Server on Linux might give you an alternative. For instance, you ...

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 ...

SQL Server 2017 is the first version of Microsoft's SQL Server database that will run on both Linux and Windows Server. Microsoft officials have said to expect SQL Server 2017 to be generally ...

SuSE Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu. You can also run SQL Server 2017 in Docker containers, which is an option many development shops may consider for rapid deployment of development databases.

You don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind, you don't pull the mask of that old Lone Ranger, and you don't run Microsoft SQL Server on Linux (with apologies to the late Jim Croce).

You can run the production workloads for SQL Server 2022 on RHEL 8 and Ubuntu ... in full general availability mode for these two Linux kernel-based services.

"Look at our simultaneous release of SQL Server on Linux. All of our projects now run on Linux," Guthrie said. Why is Microsoft joining the move to Linux? As Russinovich said years ago, when ...

Running your own server can sound intimidating at first, but with Linux, it's much easier than you might think. If you're new to servers—or Linux in general—don't worry. You don't have to be a ...

Microsoft's Scott Guthrie said that the company's RDBMS could be running on the Linux platform some time in 2017. He plans to preview a new SQL Server Stretch Database service at a New York event this ...