Announcing SQL Server 2017 Release Candidate 1Microsoft announced the first release candidate (a.k.a. RC1) for SQL Server 2017 on Monday, July 17 th. Release candidates are not a final and finished ...

Not only has the Microsoft SQL Server engineering team added more and stronger leadership, outstanding individual engineers and staff members, but it is also radically moving its entire development ...

Review: SQL Server 2017 adds Python, graph processing and runs on Linux Integration of Python for data science, graph processing for NoSQL-like functionality, and it runs on Linux as well as Windows.

This integration isn’t limited to enterprise editions of SQL Server 2017, either—it’ll also be available in the free-to-use Express edition.

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 ...

Last week, Microsoft dropped a bomb: In 2017, its incredibly popular SQL Server database product is coming to Linux — a free operating system that the company spent many years trying to drive ...

The company said Monday it plans to release a version of SQL Server, one of its most successful business-software products, for the Linux operating system.

Whether users actually want to run SQL Server on Linux is another question entirely. Oracle's flagship database software is still far more popular than Microsoft's, and open source alternatives ...