The Linux version of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 v.Next is a viable option for customers who want to deploy the RDBMS on an open source platform, but the early previews lack some features of the core ...

The battle between Microsoft (MSFT) and Oracle (ORCL) in the database market continues to intensify. Recently, Microsoft made an important announcement about making its SQL Server database available ...

As usual, Microsoft is late to the party. But this isn't like all the other times that came before In case you missed it, Microsoft made a bunch of Linux-related announcements recently. First, we ...

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 ...

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