Microsoft has previously announced SQL Server would be available for Linux, but right now, only the Windows version of SQL Server 2017 supports Python.

But it was SQL Server’s new machine learning tools that grabbed my attention. Machine learning remains one of Microsoft’s big themes for 2017, and it’s an important segment of SQL Server 2017.

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.