SQL Server on Linux Series: Why?

As you all have heard, Microsoft is supporting Linux as a supported operating system for the next version of SQL Server (recently announced to be version 2017). What?? Why?? Didn’t Steve Ballmer call Linux a “cancer” a while back? Times change....

New Series – SQL Server on Linux Administration

Starting this week, I’m introducing a new series of blog posts for the SQL Server DBA on how to properly set up and administer a production SQL Server on the Linux operating system. As you know, Microsoft is shipping SQL Server 2017 (currently at CTP 2.0) with...