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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft isn't open sourcing SQL Server's code, but making it run-able on Linux is a big change for the company. Microsoft has long offered a Mac version of its Office suite and has recently ...

The public preview of SQL Server is now available to Linux and Windows users. The most important thing here is the fact that it's available for the open source operating systems.

In my last article, Quick and Dirty with Open Office Base, I described my initial experiences with building a simple database application for my wife in Open Office Base, having had no prior ...

SQL Server on Linux was released with SQL Server 2017 and has proved to be increasingly popular with users because organizations which run their workloads on the open source platform can take a ...