Microsoft SQL Server 2017: Microsoft was released yesterday 17 the first almost public final Release Candidate of SQL Server 2017.
SQL Server 2017 will be the first version of Microsoft SQL Server database to run on Linux and on Windows Server. Microsoft officials said they expect SQL Server 2017 to be available to everyone sometime this summer.
To date, Microsoft has released seven community previews of SQL Server 2017.
Η company χρησιμοποίησε την τεχνολογία Microsoft Research “Drawbridge” για να φέρει τον SQL Server στο Linux. Η τεχνολογία Drawbridge είναι μια προσαρμογή του Library OS concept, which Microsoft Research has been working on for several years.
It is a form Virtualisation specific for application sandboxing. Drawbridge technology played an important role in reaching the Bash shell in Windows 10.
This release of SQL Server (Microsoft SQL Server 2017), in addition to support for the Linux platform, will also provide graphical data processing, adaptive query processing, and Python integration for advanced analytics, as reported by Microsoft developers.
Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Release Candidate 1 adds SQL Server to the integration of Linux Active Directory, TLS for data encryption, more functionality in SQL Server Analysis Services, and SQL Server Integration Services on Linux and Windows Server.
Microsoft's new SQL Server 2017 can be installed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and Linux Docker containers on Linux, Windows or MacOS along with Windows Server.
