[dayglored]

This looks pretty interesting to those of us who need to support one or more big business applications that require MS-SQL, but who prefer to run on Linux platforms and don't want to screw around with an odd-man-out Windows Server just for the SQL. More important, perhaps is that Linux rules the cloud, and if Microsoft wants SQL Server in the cloud, they know they have to support running on Linux.

Some more from the article:

...Despite running the same code as on Windows, the Linux product does not have all its features. Unsupported features in the current preview include:

• full-text search
• replication
• Stretch DB (extend a database to Azure)
• Polybase (query data warehouses)
• always on availability groups
• Active Directory authentication
• SQL Server Agent
• SQL Server R Services
• Analysis Services
• Reporting Services
• Integration Services
• Data Quality Services
• Master Data Services.

CLR (.NET Runtime) stored procedures are not enabled, according to Kumar, but the team is looking at future integration with the cross-platform .NET Core.

Some of these features may be enabled before general release.

[dayglored]

Microsoft SQL Server on... Linux! ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

Ping to ShadowAce for the Linux list...

[Pikachu_Dad]

Why?

And why use a microdoze product instead of mysql?

That is just begging for problems.

[DaxtonBrown]

Pretty interesting. The cost of MSSQL was stifling. I was on MYSQL, now MariaDB. I’ve gone all Linux and Java so I already have a ton of connection and data handling code.

In other words, I don’t need ya Microsoft.

[DeltaZulu]

I have to say, that is a stifling amount of missing features. It’s basically bare-bones SQL server. I’m still trying to get my head around the fact that the SQL Agent isn’t available.