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 support for ...

In the several weeks leading up to the PASS Virtual Summit in November, I had the good fortune to work with several members of the SQL Server team at Red Hat. They included people such as Louis ...

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 ...

In a move that would have been unthinkable a few years ago, Microsoft Corp. will port its Windows Server containers and SQL Server 2017 database management system to Red Hat Inc. Linux-based platforms ...

Microsoft’s SQL Server is coming to Linux early next year as the company preps SQL Server 2016 for a late-2016 launch. Today, the company is previewing a SQL Server for Linux that features the core ...

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Microsoft is porting SQL Server to Linux and is making a private preview of it available to testers today, March 7. Microsoft's plan is to make SQL Server generally available on Linux by mid-2017, ...

Microsoft has announced that it is bringing its popular SQL Server database software to Linux platforms for the first time, with its initial release scheduled for some time next year. In the world of ...

Microsoft has made managing encryption keys more secure for users running SQL Server 2022 CU18 and later on Azure Linux Virtual Machines with Managed Identity. Microsoft has announced that SQL Server ...

Last week, Microsoft dropped a bomb: In 2017, its incredibly popular SQL Server database product is coming to Linux — a free operating system that the company spent many years trying to drive into the ...