Bringing SQL Server to Linux is one of the bigger steps in Microsoft’s plan to help developers build any app for (and from) any platform. And despite the fact that it was only announced in ...

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 ...

With the recent launch of SQL Server for Linux, Coekaerts is clearly having an impact. PowerShell for Linux and bash for Windows heralded the beginning, but the arrival of SQL Server, one of the most ...

SQL Server for Linux is just another example of how Microsoft’s view of competing platforms has changed in recent years. This move would’ve been unthinkable under its former CEO Steve Ballmer.

Microsoft's plan is to make SQL Server generally available on Linux by mid-2017, said Scott Guthrie, head of Microsoft's Cloud & Enterprise business, in a blog post announcing the news.

The SQL Server 2022 public preview may be able to run on other Linux distros right now, Microsoft's document acknowledged. However, there are support implications for doing so, it warned.

SQL Server 2012 will be the last Microsoft RDBMS product to support OLE DB. In particular, the new driver for Red Hat Enterprise Linux makes things easier for Sybase migrations.

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.