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 ...

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 ...

Stephen Walli, the former Microsoft exec turned open-source proponent, is at it again. This time, the former Softie is making a case for why Microsoft should consider open-sourcing some of its ...

Data managers are increasingly recognizing the advantages that the Linux platform brings to their environments, and close to one in three data managers have already deployed their databases on the ...

Importantly, Red Hat’s model doesn’t really work if Red Hat were to magically own all of Linux development. Red Hat’s model depends on open source abundance.

Support for the Kerberos network authentication protocol; Support for SSL encryption and authentication; Support for client-side UTF-8 character encoding; BCP utility for bulk-copying data between an ...

For now, the Linux version will include all the standard SQL Server management features that come with the Windows version. These include advanced features like always-encrypted and row-level ...