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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft’s announcement that it was bringing its flagship SQL Server database software to Linux came as a major surprise when the company first announced this in March. Until now, the preview ...

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 ...

You can treat SQL Server on Linux as a new deployment option, not a whole new database. That means you can choose the operating system that best fits your project. Bringing SQL Server to Linux is ...

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 ...

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 ...

On March 7, 2016, Microsoft announced the beta release of SQL Server on Linux with the intention of shipping a full release of the product by April of 2017 (http ...

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 ...

Microsoft is porting SQL Server to Linux and is making a private preview of it available to testers today, March 7. Microsoft's plan is to make SQL Server generally available on Linux by mid-2017 ...

Microsoft widened its embrace of the Linux kernel with a preview release this week of its next SQL Server, further extending its business analytics platform to run on open-source distributions.