Dealing with data in a Docker container is more difficult than it is in a virtual machine or physical server. Containers are inherently stateless, while database management systems like SQL Server ...

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 support for ...

Now available in a public preview, SQL Server for Linux aims to be full-featured like the Windows edition and a robust, long-term choice for enterprises Those who wondered what it would be like to run ...

To me, the biggest surprise announcement coming out of Microsoft's Connect() 2016 conference last week wasn't that Microsoft was joining the Linux Foundation. Instead, it was that SQL Server Next ...

Follow this step-by-step guide to install PostgreSQL, load data, connect to a database, and execute SQL queries including table joins PostgreSQL is an open-source, object-relational (also called ...

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 ...

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 ...

When in March this year Microsoft announced that it was bringing SQL Server to Linux the reaction was one of surprise, with the announcement prompting two big questions: why and how? SQL Server is one ...

Microsoft porting SQL Server to Linux is not an early April Fool’s joke. The company is deadly serious about this move. Yes, SQL Server and Linux together. No, this is not an early April Fool’s joke.