Re: Why would you ever want to run SQL Server on Linux?
"Microsoft will never put as much effort into the Linux variant as they do for Windows, and when running on Linux"
FTA:
"However, not everything has been ported. There are no Reporting Services or Analysis Services, nor Machine Learning Services (formerly R Services)."
Also:
"Replication is not supported, other than in the context of high availability, nor is Stretch DB, for hybrid local/Azure database storage. File Table, which exposes a SQL Server table as if it were part of the file system, does not work on Linux. Management tools remain for the most part Windows only, though command-line tools work."
So MS arn't planning on kicking Windows off the top table anytime soon it would seem.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
