Microsoft on Monday announced that the first release candidate for SQL Server 2017 is now available to the public. After multiple preview builds over the last year, this marks the first time that ...

Microsoft is using these capabilities internally as it builds, tests and publishes new versions of SQL Server 2017, revealed Petrossian.

Microsoft previously announced plans to let SQL Server 2017 run on Linux, in another high-profile move along those lines. The new version will also run inside Docker containers on Linux or Mac ...

Microsoft plans to release CUs for SQL Server 2017 when they are needed, but they'll arrive on the third Tuesday of each month. GDR releases, in contrast, just contain security-only fixes.

Microsoft attained record setting non-clustered TPC-H and 2-socket TPC-E benchmark results with SQL Server 2017, and one of the TPC-H results was achieved with the Linux version of the product.

Moreover, the SQL Server team is sticking with the more traditional "CU" and "GDR" Microsoft nomenclature for describing updates, instead of using the newer "channels" lingo. The delivery of CUs to ...

At Microsoft's Ignite 2017 day one keynote today in Orlando, the company announced the general availability of SQL Server 2017, the first version to be offered on Windows Server, Linux, and Docker.

SQL Server 2017 will be generally available next Monday, Oct. 2., Microsoft announced today at its Ignite conference in Orlando, Fla. That announcement was made by Microsoft exec Scott Guthrie, ...

SQL Server 2017 went into general availability today. Today's release is a remarkable step in SQL Server's history, because it's not just a release for Windows.

Not only has the Microsoft SQL Server engineering team added more and stronger leadership, outstanding individual engineers and staff members, but it is also radically moving its entire development ...

Coming full circle back to SQL Server 2017, Microsoft data watchers will recall that this release will be the first one to support the relational database engine running on both Windows and Linux ...

Back in 2016, when Microsoft announced that SQL Server would soon run on Linux, the news came as a major surprise to users and pundits alike. Over the course of the last year, Microsoft’s ...