As covered by my ZDNet colleague Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft has announced that it is bringing its core, flagship relational database, SQL Server, to the Linux operating system. I also work for Datameer, ...

SQL Server on Linux maintains the same enterprise-level features as on Windows, including high availability and performance. And, despite some misperceptions, DBAs may employ many of the same tools ...

Last week was quite the week for Microsoft -- Visual Studio integration with Eclipse, and then the big announcement that SQL Server is coming to a Linux operating system near you shortly. The cool ...

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 ...

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 in March this year Microsoft announced that it was bringing SQL Server to Linux the reaction was one of surprise, with the announcement prompting two big questions: why and how? SQL Server is one ...

Microsoft SQL Server, the company's flagship database software, has long been one of the company's most lucrative enterprise products, alongside its Windows Server operating system. Today, Microsoft ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. Microsoft's SQL Server 2016 is set to launch later this ...

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, ...

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 ...