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.

Microsoft is introducing other capabilities to SQL Server 2025 to facilitate the development of AI-based applications, including JSON support, a Python driver, and change event streaming.

Microsoft has released a new version of its hit Python extension for its cross-platform code editor Visual Studio Code (VS Code) that makes its Pylance language server the default.