Microsoft has pushed the first public Release Candidate (RC0) of SQL Server 2025 into preview with two headline changes that matter to every Windows-centric IT team experimenting with Linux-first development: official Ubuntu 24.04 support for dev/test scenarios and TLS 1.3 enabled by default...
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PostgreSQL has unequivocally become a frontrunner among database solutions tailored for cloud-native, containerized environments, with adoption rapidly accelerating in the Kubernetes ecosystem. A recent Kubernetes in the Wild 2025 report reveals that PostgreSQL now powers 36% of all database...