Announcing SQL Server on Linux

Re:Announcing SQL Server on Linux by sqldba on Monday March 07, 2016 @08:09PM (#11242938)

> I think it is naive to criticize this move in any way - it is giving more choice so should be supported.

It's naive to support it just because of the assumption that more choice must be good.

On the contrary the past few years on Windows have been full of data corruption bugs in SQL 2012 and 2014; and while 2016 looks amazing with new features Microsoft has continued to push ahead instead of just - you know - fixing the fucking bugs we all keep reporting and upvoting on Connect and getting ignored.

More choice is IMHO not a good thing. It's a bad thing. In the same way people who "multi task" are more often than not churning out shit work and running on luck - I'd prefer Microsoft focus on what they know best.

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Re:Announcing SQL Server on Linux by Godel_unicode on Monday March 07, 2016 @10:08PM (#11243331)

You think that allowing corporations to move their SQL server investment off of Windows and onto Linux as a precursor to moving off of SQL server, rather than forcing them to change DBMS and OS at the same time is bad? That's what choice means.

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Re:Announcing SQL Server on Linux by qb45 on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @05:21AM (#11244465)

Those who are moving off of MS SQL are "lost customers" and I don't think MS would be spending extra resources on facilitating their transition. More likely they had customers willing to switch to/stay on MS SQL but needing Linux for some unrelated reasons.

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Re:Announcing SQL Server on Linux by lmm on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @04:50AM (#11244369)

While I do think this is a good thing, I've run very good MySQL servers (well, in so far as MySQL is ever very good) on Windows, so it was already possible to do that kind of migration.

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