When Wim Coekaerts, Microsoft's vice president for open source, took the stage at LinuxCon 2016 in Toronto last summer, he came not as an adversary, but as a longtime Linux enthusiast promising to ...

ORLANDO, Florida – Microsoft released the latest version of its SQL Server product across its home platform, Linux, and Docker-based systems. The launch marks the first time the computing giant has ...

Don't be afraid of using your chosen database's command-line client. I might as well say this up front: I don't like using GUI (aka non-command-line or graphical) tools with my databases. This is ...

Microsoft porting SQL Server to Linux is not an early April Fool's joke. The company is deadly serious about this move. Some people are asking why. After all, with MySQL, MariaDB, postgreSQL, and ...

Also in today's open source roundup: Why is Microsoft releasing SQL Server for Linux? And what do Linux users think about SQL Server coming to their favorite operating system? Today’s Microsoft is ...

SQL Server 2005's Management Studio offers lots of new functionality, but you can't always use a GUI. Sometimes you need to run a script from the command line, especially for an upgrade or install ...

Linux databases traditionally have a greater reliance on command-line tools than GUIs, with MySQL, MariaDB, Postgres and more being easily scripted and controlled from the shell. On Windows, SQL ...