Microsoft Ignite: SQL Server 2017 for Linux goes live; or Windows, if you want The preview Docker image has already been fetched 2 million times.

The company today launched the first release candidate of SQL Server 2017, which will be the first version to run on Windows, Linux and in Docker containers.

Microsoft's recently released SQL Server 2017 is off to a strong start, and the company looks to keep the momentum going with new tools and blistering performance.