The SQL Server 2022 public preview may be able to run on other Linux distros right now, Microsoft's document acknowledged. However, there are support implications for doing so, it warned.

In March, company officials also said that users who bought SQL Server would be able to use that license on either Windows Server or Linux, but didn't go so far as to say that the version of SQL ...

SQL Server for Linux should reach general availability later this year. Even today, a couple of companies are already using it in production, and the Linux version now runs as fast as the Windows ...

Microsoft also kicked off a private preview of SQL Server on Linux on March 7. A week later, company officials said roughly 8,000 companies, including about 25 percent of the Fortune 500, had ...

Many organizations are building their new applications on Linux rather than the Windows operating system for reasons of security, performance, and manageability. In addition, they are now able to take ...

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.

On the surface, the announcement of SQL Server on Linux seems to be a simple sales strategy to increase revenue by carving out some competitive space from Oracle on Linux. But it goes deeper than that ...

Microsoft on Monday announced that its SQL Server 2016 database system will be coming to the Linux platform. "This will enable SQL Server to deliver a consistent data platform across Windows ...

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 ...

When Wim Coekaerts, Microsoft's vice president for open source, took the stage at LinuxCon 2016 in Toronto last summer, he came not as an adversary, but as a longtime Linux enthusiast promising to ...

Microsoft announced that an edition of its SQL Server software for Linux will arrive in mid-2017. A private preview release with "core relational database capabilities" is available for testing now.

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 ...