Announcing SQL Server on Linux

Re:Announcing SQL Server on Linux by mrbluesman on Monday March 07, 2016 @04:06PM (#11241672)

The question now is, will they offer up a free edition to compete with MySQL? And when will they open-source it?

(I can't believe I'm actually saying that.)

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Announcing SQL Server on Linux by nickpeterson on Monday March 07, 2016 @04:29PM (#11241851)

There is a free (but not open source) edition and it's been available for some time. SQL Server Express. It has very severe limitations though, which make it difficult to recommend.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Announcing SQL Server on Linux by bragh on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @04:23AM (#11244286)

Depends on the use case. A local POS vendor is running most of their local databases in stores (1..10 registers) on the Express version. Not sure how often they archive data out of the main database, though.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Announcing SQL Server on Linux by matthewarkin on Monday March 07, 2016 @04:46PM (#11241988)

There is SQL Server Express though it has a 10GB limit

[ Parent | on HN ]