Key takeaways Docker based SQL Server containers can be used today. SQL Server containers present a new option for support of development/test and continuous integration scenarios.

Microsoft today is announcing new capabilities for running applications in containers — an alternative to more traditional virtual machines — both on its Azure public cloud and in companies ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

When Microsoft announced back in 2016 that it was going to deploy SQL Server on Linux, buried in the announcement was support for containers -- specifically, Docker.

There are lots of ways to handle databases in a containerized environment like Docker. Here's how to create SQL Server in a container, how to load it with the data you want and how to integrate that ...