SQL coming to Linux

platypus · 30 Mar 2016 at 09:05

What are people's thoughts on this? I'm getting hold of the private preview through work and it will certainly be interesting for us.

Thoughts on who it's aimed at? Enterprises? Millennials? They're certainly going after Oracle but I can't help feel there's more to it than just that. And of course with the explosion of Docker, running Azure sql instances in a linux container suddenly halves Microsoft's running costs.

Will be interesting to see what comes of it.

Snypa · 30 Mar 2016 at 09:07

SQL has been on Linux forever...

Snypa · 30 Mar 2016 at 09:09

Oh you mean MS SQL Server.

Makes no difference to me. Seems pretty logical though considering how widely used Linux is on servers. Especially web servers.

crinkleshoes · 30 Mar 2016 at 10:21

I'd expect a massive improvement in performance... unless they have somehow hampered it.

The main bottleneck with MS SQL is the MS file system it's forced to run on, so this should be a decent improvement.

DanF · 30 Mar 2016 at 10:54

platypus said:
Thoughts on who it's aimed at? Enterprises? Millennials? They're certainly going after Oracle but I can't help feel there's more to it than just that. And of course with the explosion of Docker, running Azure sql instances in a linux container suddenly halves Microsoft's running costs.

Do you think Azure gets cross charged for MS windows licenses?

memyselfandi · 30 Mar 2016 at 18:01

Depends on the eventual license cost (particularly in a virtual environment) and feature set.

platypus · 5 Apr 2016 at 16:18

DanF said:
Do you think Azure gets cross charged for MS windows licenses?

No, do you? I'm talking about the reduced costs of hardware provisioning required for running cloud based linux servers vs windows.

Woden · 5 Apr 2016 at 16:30

With Linux userland coming to windows, and MSSQL going to Linux, MS are having quite a strategy change.

Windows 11 will be a Linux distro!