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 ...

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 ...

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.

For future builds of SQL Server 2016, Stretch Database service will be the default target location for stretching." Microsoft made the announcements as a prelude to a Thursday Data Driven event ...

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 ...

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.

At its Data Driven customer event last week in New York City, Microsoft unveiled the next version of its flagship database, SQL Server. But it came with a twist. Along with the expected Windows-based ...

Through the release of SQL 7.0, Microsoft officially supported Sybase client software with a caveat that such support was at its end. Thus the Perl DBD::Sybase module, compiled with Sybase's freely ...

I recently ran into an issue where the end user wanted to connect using the MS SQL Server JDBC driver, and no matter what permutation of DOMAIN\user or passing the domain in the connection string we ...