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 ...

Microsoft on Monday announced that its SQL Server 2016 database system will be coming to the Linux platform. "This will enable SQL Server to deliver a consistent data platform across Windows ...

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 ...

SQL Server for Linux should reach general availability later this year. Even today, a couple of companies are already using it in production, and the Linux version now runs as fast as the Windows ...

"Right now, with SQL Server 2016 RCO, when you enable stretching to Azure from SQL Server Management Studio, the default behavior is to stretch to Azure SQL Database, the SQL Server team said in a ...

Question 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 ...

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 ...

While the Linux version of SQL Server 2016 was not a surprise – Microsoft had announced it on the company’s blog days before – what did surprise attendees was an offer that surfaced the morning of the ...

Microsoft isn't open sourcing SQL Server's code, but making it run-able on Linux is a big change for the company. Microsoft has long offered a Mac version of its Office suite and has recently ...