Towards the end of 2016, Microsoft released the first public preview of SQL Server on Linux after having attracted interest from over 8,000 companies who had signed up to try out the new offering. Now ...

If you haven’t been paying a lot of attention, you might have missed the rise of a new form of virtualization, based at the operating system level, called “containers.” While there are many specific ...

Going forward, there is little question that containers have become firmly established as the technology of choice for application deployment – at least until such a time as alternative approaches ...

Today, at its Ignite conference in Orlando, Microsoft is announcing the general availability of a new version of its flagship operational database, SQL Server 2017. SQL Server is a product I have ...

The beta program is being put on ice for the "foreseeable future." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Microsoft's SQL Server on ...

Microsoft announced the name and many of the new features in the next release of SQL Server at its Data Amp Virtual Event on Wednesday. While SQL Server 2017 may not have as comprehensive of a feature ...

Microsoft is making available on July 17 its first near-final public Release Candidate of SQL Server 2017. SQL Server 2017 is the first version of Microsoft's SQL Server database that will run on both ...

Developers have seen quite a bit of success using Microsoft's .NET Framework for well over 15 years, with countless business-critical apps running on older versions of the Framework and older versions ...

Microsoft this week announced that a new type of Linux container that runs on Windows Server 2016 will be coming soon. The move, which was unveiled at this week's DockerCon 2017 in Austin, Texas, ...