> I understand that there are some fancy DB things that it can do I haven't seen this anywhere else in this thread, so here's The Register saying that the Linu

> I understand that there are some fancy DB things that it can do I haven't seen this anywhere else in this thread, so here's The Register saying that the Linux version would be lacking some features compared to the Windows version, though it doesn't mention what those might be. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/11/sql_server_linux_2017/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/11/sql_server_linux_201... It doesn't surprise me; I can imagine there's quite a bit of stuff in the server software, as a whole, that is dependent on native OS integration. I'll be interesting to see a matchup once it starts getting reviewed.