“For future builds of SQL Server 2016, Stretch Database service will be the default target location for stretching”. This gives customers a choice and reduces the concerns for lock-in.
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Al Gillen, IDC group vice president for enterprise infrastructure, says in the Microsoft blog post that he expects the move to “accelerate the overall adoption of SQL Server”. The move comes as some surprise as Microsoft has never allowed SQL Server to run on another platform.
SQL Server 2016 will also deliver a high level of data warehousing performance thanks to the #1, #2 and #3 TPC-H 10 Terabyte benchmarks for non-clustered performance, and the #1 SAP SD Two-Tier performance benchmark on Windows.
Microsoft Corporation announced Monday that SQL Server, its software for managing corporate data, would also run on Linux.
Microsoft’s popular database software SQL Server is coming to Linux and will be available sometime next year.
The days are gone of Microsoft’s brickwall approach seeking to lure everyone to its operating systems. A company spokesperson said that their goal is to offer a consistent data platform across Linux and Windows Server, as well as on-premises and cloud.
Many Linux enterprise users are sold on their free open-source solutions, and it is now unknown what licensing will be required for SQL Server on Linux. It’s at the near-final Release Candidate stage at the moment, and is slated for general availability later this year. There are already products such as MySQL and MariaDB.
This marks the first time that the world’s largest software firm has let its corporate database software run on a platform other than Windows. But the new announcement is mainly a competitive decision to take on Oracle. The company has 40 percent market share, thanks its existing presence on Windows as well as Linux platforms. Times have certainly changed, with Nadella recently stating in the New York Times, relating to this latest move, that, “Data is the core asset now”.
Of course, Exchange has a greater tie-in with Active Directory than SQL Server does, and it is not inconceivable the Linux edition of SQL Server will only support SQL Server authentication from day one.
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Today I’m excited to announce our plans to bring SQL Server to Linux as well. “All of them are using data in a much richer way now to understand their customers”.
