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The guts of SQL Server were (and as far as I know still are) a RDBMS named Sybase that MS bought sometime in the mid '90s. Sybase ran perfectly fine on Unix, ju
by zrail 15y ago
The guts of SQL Server were (and as far as I know still are) a RDBMS named Sybase that MS bought sometime in the mid '90s. Sybase ran perfectly fine on Unix, just without all the GUI crap.
- lrobb 15y agoOriginally that was true, but the author mentions NT4 and I believe MS rewrote the engine specifically for NT...
- BarkMore 15y agoSee http://hal2020.com/2011/07/27/porting-microsoft-sql-server-to-linux/#comment-664 http://hal2020.com/2011/07/27/porting-microsoft-sql-server-t... for a history of the SQL Server guts. It is now a complete rewrite of the Sybase code.
- zrail 15y agoOh, that's fascinating. Thanks!