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 ...

On Linux, the way you do high availability and DR differs even between RedHat, Ubuntu and SuSE, and SQL Server on Linux will use open source tools like Pacemaker for clustering.

Exploring SQL Server for Linux With the SQL Server 2016 v.Next CTP up and running, let’s take a look around. I’ve connected with my favorite admin tool and as I start to explore, it all looks ...

Guthrie expresses a similar hope for Service Pack 1. Sure, some companies may have been paying for SQL Server solely to access features not found in the Express SKU, and they may now save that ...

Microsoft image. Microsoft plans to release its SQL Server database management program for the Linux operating system, the latest in a series of moves by the Redmond technology company to make its ...

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 ...

Who would have thought that a few years ago? Microsoft is going to bring its SQL Server to Linux, in a move which would have been unthinkable a few years ago when Redmond dubbed the open source ...

Ideally, Microsoft will offer all editions of SQL Server, but it’s more practical for the company to start with the edition that has the largest market (Standard, most likely) and work outward ...

Microsoft says it plans to open up access to SQL Server on Linux as it gets closer to general availability. Today’s announcement comes three days ahead of Microsoft’s planned SQL Server 2016 ...