Linux servers are powerful and flexible. With a modern GUI, things are generally fairly simple and straightforward. Say, for example, the process of syncing your server to a cloud account, like ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yup, you read that right. Microsoft is making SQL Server, its popular Windows Server-based database, available for the open source Linux operating system. Scott Guthrie, executive vice president ...

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 ...

But for the most part, SQL Server for Linux is a drop-in replacement for the Windows version, with the same APIs, the same features, and the same management tools.

Microsoft on Monday announced the general availability of SQL Server 2017, now with support for Linux, at its Ignite conference in Orlando. The company first announced its plans for the newest ...

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.

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.