Relational databases driven by SQL are popular, but Linux offers a simpler, more transparent alternative. In Linux, the text file is king. With many robust tools and an ecosystem that encourages ...

So you can do things like populate your data or examine your database without having to write SQL at all. For a custom file format, you’d probably have to do everything yourself or populate and ...

and has the ability to support over four billion records in a single database. In a similar vein, Sybase's SQL Anywhere permits development on Linux platforms. Its memory requirement, though ...

The company has come a long, long way since then. Microsoft has unveiled a version of SQL Server, a flagship database program, for Linux. That's right -- you can get a major Microsoft data center ...

But you can't actually run much Microsoft software on those Linux servers. That's about to change. Companies will soon be able to run Microsoft's database software SQL Server on Linux, Microsoft's ...

SQL Server, Microsoft’s flagship relational database product, is now available on Linux in the form of an early private preview, with a full launch planned for mid-2017. Until now, SQL Server ...

You can treat SQL Server on Linux as a new deployment option, not a whole new database. That means you can choose the operating system that best fits your project. Bringing SQL Server to Linux is ...

Microsoft plans to release its SQL Server database management program for the Linux operating system, the latest in a series of moves by the Redmond technology company to make its traditional ...

Learn More. Microsoft made waves earlier this year when it announced that its SQL Server database was heading to Linux in mid-2017. For an early peek at what that experience is like, curious ...