Announcing SQL Server on Linux

Re:Announcing SQL Server on Linux by samstave on Monday March 07, 2016 @07:21PM (#11242767)

Any idea how MSSQL was deployed on RDS in AWS prior to this? Was AWS spinning up some custom Windows instances behind RDS?

Or was the RDS implementation part of how MS figured out how to release this??

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Re:Announcing SQL Server on Linux by aalbertson on Monday March 07, 2016 @11:02PM (#11243476)

SQL Server RDS is built on Windows. Albeit a scripted to the 9's adaptation to make it act more Linux like (e.g., RDS can't connect to your AD, so they had to make some sacrifices).

The big difference with RDS is that you don't get the full gambit of clustering capabilities that SQL server supports. This is mainly due to the fact they don't have a shared storage model that SQL cluster failover requires.

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Re:Announcing SQL Server on Linux by jpitz on Monday March 07, 2016 @11:26PM (#11243529)

EBS is certainly capable of implementing the shared storage that the database requires, and the quorum driver for wolfpack ought to implementable without a physical scsi device backing it.

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Re:Announcing SQL Server on Linux by hodgesrm on Monday March 07, 2016 @11:40PM (#11243574)

At least until recently the MS SQL Server clustering was based on mirroring, which is capable but deprecated in future SQL Server releases in favor of AlwaysOn clustering.

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