Tuesday, November 29, 2016

How SQL Server runs on Linux?


I wrote this blog post after Microsoft announced that SQL Server is going to support Linux. I had many questions in mind on how MS is going to design SQL Server to run on Linux. The major question I had was, Is it complete re-write to work on Linux kernel? Now Microsoft has released some details on, how they have designed SQL Server to run on Linux. It was not a complete rewrite of SQL Server instead Microsoft has used a virtualization technique called Drawbridge to run SQL Server on Linux. Drawbridge contains Windows OS Library versions which consists of a user-mode kernel of Windows NT as a process called picoprocess. Picoprocess is a container service and it communicates with Linux OS. 

​For more details refer below links;
Microsoft loves Linux?​
Drawbridge

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