Microsoft is keeping its SQL Server on Linux containers offering, but ditching its SQL Server on Windows Containers one.

Microsoft has sent its SQL Server on Windows Containers Beta program to the shadow realm. Not only is it indefinitely pausing support, but it's also deleting docker hub repos.

Containers are just around the corner for the Windows community, and this article takes a closer look at using SQL Server containers.

SQL Server 2025 preview debuts with Ubuntu 24.04 support and TLS 1.3 encryption for stronger security and Linux flexibility.

Microsoft took a two-pronged approach to trimming the size of Windows Server Core container images, according to Weijuan Shi Davis, a Windows Containers program manager at the software giant.

Seeing which way the wind was blowing, Microsoft partnered with Docker back in 2014 to port the Docker Engine to run on Windows Server, which also involved adding some underlying mechanisms to support ...

If you haven't been paying a lot of attention, you might have missed the rise of a new form of virtualization, based at the operating system level, called 'containers.' While there are many specific ...

The latest Windows server release improves container support significantly, ready for you to shift your code to the hybrid cloud.

A little-known startup that offers data protection and SQL Server migration tools today released what it calls the first native container management platform for Windows Server and claims it can ...