On 22 November 2016 at 21:04, Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm wrote:
Here is a good overview of MSSQL on Linux. Basically it's running in a Windows container. A Windows 8 kernel running on its Drawbridge container platform, which in turn is a native Linux daemon I guess.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/18/microsoft_running_windows_apps_on_li...
As it stands it is just the database engine - the tools and BI stuff is supposedly coming later. I would guess it is the full fat engine.
Could explain why I had to bump up my Hyper-V VM RAM to 3.5Gb! (Seems to use less in operation though)
On the plus side it is really fast to setup. It took me no time to setup an Ubuntu image, install SQL and get my app running.
I wonder how this will affect Azure sales?