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 ...

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.

SQL Server Integration Services has added a new scale-out feature and, as already discussed, can run on SQL Server for Linux. It also offers enhanced connectivity to Microsoft Dynamics AX Online ...

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 ...

Over the years, SQL Server has lost mind share and market share to open source Linux-compatible databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, despite the fact that Microsoft makes available SQL Server ...

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 ...

As we build upon our deep hybrid cloud partnership, spanning not only Linux, but also middleware, and PaaS, we’re excited to now extend that collaboration to SQL Server on Red Hat Enterprise ...

This shakeup has implications far beyond SQL Server. Here are eight insights into why this matters — for Microsoft, its customers, and the rest of the Linux- and cloud-powered world. 1. This is huge ...

Microsoft’s popular database software SQL Server is coming to Linux and will be available sometime next year. This is the first time that Microsoft has let SQL Server run on a platform other ...

SQL Server 2016 boasts new in-memory database capabilities that can make some workloads 30-100 times faster and support for encryption for data at rest, in memory, and on the wire.