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 this week noted that its SQL Server 2022 public preview, made available late last month, can now be tried on some Linux distros. It's possible to try the SQL Server 2022 public preview on ...

Microsoft’s announcement that it was bringing its flagship SQL Server database software to Linux came as a major surprise when the company first announced this in March. Until now, the preview was ...

Microsoft can now hold out the promise to anyone who migrates: in a short time, you will be able to run SQL Server on Linux too. And there is much to be gained in terms of money. Further, given Oracle ...

In the several weeks leading up to the PASS Virtual Summit in November, I had the good fortune to work with several members of the SQL Server team at Red Hat. They included people such as Louis ...

Microsoft has made managing encryption keys more secure for users running SQL Server 2022 CU18 and later on Azure Linux Virtual Machines with Managed Identity. Microsoft has announced that SQL Server ...

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Microsoft officials are showcasing some of the new fruits of its partnership with Red Hat at this week's Red Hat Summit in San Francisco. On Thursday, Microsoft execs will demonstrate SQL Server on ...

Microsoft’s SQL Server is coming to Linux early next year as the company preps SQL Server 2016 for a late-2016 launch. Today, the company is previewing a SQL Server for Linux that features the core ...