There are some handy tools you can use on Linux, Mac or Windows to connect to the SQL server instance. I used Microsoft's sqlcmd tool on Mac and Linux boxes to connect to the running database instance ...

Making SQL Server feel native to Linux admins means several command line tools for working with SQL Server, on top of the capability to deploy it entirely from the Docker command line.

But SQL Server 2014 and 2016 both introduced features appealing to everyone trying to build modern enterprise business applications: in-memory processing by way of table pinning, support for JSON ...

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 ...

Also: 5 Linux commands for quickly finding the system information you need to know. 5. systemctl. The systemctl command is not only good for starting and stopping applications; ...

SQL Server 2017 went into general availability today. Today's release is a remarkable step in SQL Server's history, because it's not just a release for Windows. Today marks the general ...

So SQL Server on Linux is still a pretty significant undertaking. And, given the caveats I've outlined here, it's not clear that undertaking will pay off for Redmond. But let's not get too granular.