Back in 2016, when Microsoft announced that SQL Server would soon run on Linux, ... But the SQL Server team took over the Drawbridge code base and added it into the SQL OS layer.

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 ...

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 widened its embrace of the Linux kernel with a preview release this week of its next SQL Server, further extending its business analytics platform to run on open-source distributions.

SQL Server for Linux was announced in March of last year to widespread surprise. ... developers can now move applications to use Azure SQL Databases with no code changes and full compatibility.

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 ...

On the surface, the announcement of SQL Server on Linux seems to be a simple sales strategy to increase revenue by carving out some competitive space from Oracle on Linux. But it goes deeper than that ...

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 ...

Also in today's open source roundup: Why is Microsoft releasing SQL Server for Linux? And what do Linux users think about SQL Server coming to their favorite operating system?

It provides sqlcmd and bcp utilities for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 users and works with SQL Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2012 (formerly code-named "Denali"). The new driver can be downloaded here .