Microsoft this week noted that its SQL Server 2022 public preview, made available late last month, can now be tried on some Linux distros. It's possible to try the SQL Server 2022 public preview on ...

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 ...

The Linux version of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 v.Next is a viable option for customers who want to deploy the RDBMS on an open source platform, but the early previews lack some features of the core ...

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 traditional ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. Until now, SQL Server was ...

Microsoft is taking its database rivalry into Oracle’s home territory - the Unix family of operating systems. The company has announced that the 2016 release of SQL Server, traditionally a Windows ...

You don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind, you don't pull the mask of that old Lone Ranger, and you don't run Microsoft SQL Server on Linux (with apologies to the late Jim Croce).

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 ...