Yup, you read that right. Microsoft is making SQL Server, its popular Windows Server-based database, available for the open source Linux operating system. Scott Guthrie, executive vice president for ...

Microsoft porting SQL Server to Linux is not an early April Fool's joke. The company is deadly serious about this move. Some people are asking why. After all, with MySQL, MariaDB, postgreSQL, and ...

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 ...

General availability on newer Linux distributions and CU1 signal a push toward stability, security and production readiness.

Microsoft has reached out to federal agencies to test SQL Server 2016 for those using the Linux operating system. Microsoft has already reached out to government users to test out SQL for Linux, which ...

In the case of SQL Server, there are three chief distinctions that account for this inability to dynamically transfer data and processing between its native cluster resource manager (CRM), Windows ...

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’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 ...