{"id":14232,"date":"2016-03-07T16:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T00:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/openness.microsoft.com\/blog\/?p=14232"},"modified":"2025-01-15T16:26:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T00:26:06","slug":"sql-server-run-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/07\/sql-server-run-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing SQL Server on Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today Microsoft <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/07\/announcing-sql-server-on-linux\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> plans to bring SQL Server to Linux, enabling SQL Server to deliver a consistent data platform across Windows Server and Linux, as well as on-premises and cloud. The core relational database capabilities are in private preview starting today, with mid-2017 as the target for availability\u00a0of core relational database capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBringing SQL Server to Linux is another way we are making our products and new innovations more accessible to a broader set of users and meeting them where they are,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/07\/announcing-sql-server-on-linux\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President of Microsoft\u2019s Cloud and Enterprise Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more on what IDC\u2019s Al Gillen, Red Hat\u2019s Paul Cormier, and Canonical\u2019s Mark Shuttleworth had to say about this news, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/07\/announcing-sql-server-on-linux\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Official Microsoft Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Microsoft announced plans to bring SQL Server to Linux, enabling SQL Server to deliver a consistent data platform across Windows Server and Linux, as well as on-premises and cloud. 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