Many organizations are building their new applications on Linux rather than the Windows operating system for reasons of security, performance, and manageability. In addition, they are now able to take ...

The SQL Server 2022 public preview may be able to run on other Linux distros right now, Microsoft's document acknowledged. However, there are support implications for doing so, it warned.

It was seen as essential that SQL Server on Linux have identical semantics and performance to SQL Server on Windows, right down to the level of database file compatibility.