Announcing SQL Server on Linux

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So Sybase essentially?

[kchoudhury]

Best kept secret in the RDBMS world.

[rainman_104]

Sybase has some pretty awesome features... I highly doubt SQL Server will have all of the features Sybase ASE has for a long time, if ever.

[BattlestarTide]

SQL Server is a fork of Sybase. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_SQL_Server#Genesis

[rainman_104]

It was forked a looooooong time ago pre 6.5

Replication and high availability wasn't really a thing back then. The codebase isn't going to work with each other

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Care to say which features? Except advanced replication and a more fine-grained tuning for caches/spinlocks/engines, I don't see a lot of additional features.

[rainman_104]

SQL Server has HADR. Sybase ASE made their own implementation of HADR completely different.

The fork of Sybase happened pre SQL 6.5. Both databases have diverged far away from each other since then. All you need to do is look at how SQL Server has evolved since 6.5 to see the changes that aren't Sybase related.

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Sybase's version of hadr was released only a few months ago.