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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella extolled his company’s love for Linux—an open source operating system it previously opposed—it would be natural to assume that commitment came with a few caveats. On ...

Microsoft’s announcement that it was bringing its flagship SQL Server database software to Linux came as a major surprise when the company first announced this in March. Until now, the preview was ...

Today, at its Ignite conference in Orlando, Microsoft is announcing the general availability of a new version of its flagship operational database, SQL Server 2017. SQL Server is a product I have ...

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 ...