As covered by my ZDNet colleague Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft has announced that it is bringing its core, flagship relational database, SQL Server, to the Linux operating system. I also work for ...

SQL Server on Linux? You're not dreaming. Here's what is important about this historic shift on Microsoft's part Pigs sure sprouted wings yesterday when Microsoft announced, without warning or ...

plus Azure integrations like stretch database and the always encrypted option. Not all those features are guaranteed to be in the first release of SQL Server on Linux, Kumar cautions.

If you want to run Linux and use a proprietary relational ... what made this project possible. Because SQL Server’s needs always went beyond what Windows and Windows Server were able to offer ...

SQL Server is already running on Linux in Azure, Microsoft’s cloud service ... a technologic disadvantage that it will take years to catch up. And the company’s always-aggressive sales and licensing ...

codenamed SQL Server vNext. The newest preview release follows last month’s CTP 1.2, which included SUSE Linux support. This time around, the software giant added the Always On Availability ...

SQL Server for Linux carries risks ... is a performance-critical application that often (though not always) runs on dedicated hardware. The engineers understand its workload very well and want ...

Microsoft this week noted that its SQL Server 2022 public preview, made available late last month, can now be tried on some Linux distros. It's possible to try the SQL Server 2022 public preview ...

Today, at its Ignite conference in Orlando, Microsoft is announcing the general availability of a new version of its flagship operational database, SQL Server 2017. SQL Server is a product I have ...

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 ...