SQL Server 2017, released in 2017, adds Linux support for these Linux platforms: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Ubuntu & Docker Engine.
Its name is entirely descriptive, it being server software that responds to queries in the SQL language. The history of Microsoft SQL Server begins with the first Microsoft SQL Server product-SQL Server 1.0, a 16-bit server for the OS/2 operating system in 1989-and extends to the current day. Main article: History of Microsoft SQL Server