Microsoft is using these capabilities internally as it builds, tests and publishes new versions of SQL Server 2017, revealed Petrossian.

Microsoft is making available its first public near-final Release Candidate for its SQL Server 2017 database, which will run on both Linux and Windows Server.

The latest SQL Server comes packed with support for Linux, automatic tuning and other enhancements that will enhance and simplify the use of the database platform.

Microsoft Ignite: SQL Server 2017 for Linux goes live; or Windows, if you want The preview Docker image has already been fetched 2 million times.

Microsoft announced this week that a faster update release pace will be coming to its newly announced SQL Server 2017 product.

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 ...

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.

At PASS Summit 2017, Microsoft announced SQL Operations Studio to help devs and admins monitor database performance and boost efficiency while Azure picked up a new "compute-optimized" service tier.

Moreover, the SQL Server team is sticking with the more traditional "CU" and "GDR" Microsoft nomenclature for describing updates, instead of using the newer "channels" lingo. The delivery of CUs to ...