While SQL Server 2022 is still at the public preview stage, when it's commercially released, the licensing for its use on Windows Server and Linux servers will be the same, according to the FAQ: ...

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 ...

Once you install it, you can also manually configure the SQL*Net client to use RADIUS authentication by adding the following line to the local sqlnet.ora file: SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES=(RADIUS) ...

Microsoft Previews SQL Server ODBC Driver for Linux. By Leila Meyer; 11/29/11; Microsoft has posted a preview release of its new SQL Server ODBC Driver for Linux, which enables access to Microsoft SQL ...

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 ...