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 ...

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 on Linux is not a Linux executable in Linux's ELF format. It's a Windows executable, in Windows' PE format. You could in principle take it and run it on Windows.

Microsoft's next version of SQL Server is available in public preview form for both Linux and Windows. Microsoft also is introducing SQL Server 2016 SP1.

Also in today's open source roundup: Why is Microsoft releasing SQL Server for Linux? And what do Linux users think about SQL Server coming to their favorite operating system?

So SQL Server on Linux is still a pretty significant undertaking. And, given the caveats I've outlined here, it's not clear that undertaking will pay off for Redmond.

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.

Bringing SQL Server to Linux is one of the bigger steps in Microsoft’s plan to help developers build any app for (and from) any platform. And despite the fact that it was only announced in ...

But SQL Server 2014 and 2016 both introduced features appealing to everyone trying to build modern enterprise business applications: in-memory processing by way of table pinning, support for JSON ...

With the recent launch of SQL Server for Linux, Coekaerts is clearly having an impact. PowerShell for Linux and bash for Windows heralded the beginning, but the arrival of SQL Server, one of the most ...

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 ...

SQL Server, Microsoft’s flagship relational database product, is now available on Linux in the form of an early private preview, with a full launch planned for mid-2017.