MS SQL Server 2017 Candidate Has Arrived

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The latest release of Microsoft's epic relational database management server MS SQL Server 2017 has hit RC1 and is now available for you to start playing with. The biggest news with this release is that this is the first one that officially runs on Linux. So there is likely to be a lot of interest in this release specifically. Also worth noting is that TLS security is finally baked in for client / server communication paths.