Since SQL version 2016, customer can decide platform other than windows OS. SQL 2016 can be installed and configured on Linux OS and it’s completely supported. In my opinion the decision of allowing Linux platform is to compete with open source database engine such as MySQL, PostgreSQL and ORACLE those provide similar capabilities. The licensing & editions are still not clear but the platform provide most of features a DBA will look for.
Supported Linux Operating System
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Workstation, Server, and Desktop
SUSE Enterprise Linux Server v12 SP2
Ubuntu 16.04LTS and 16.10
Docker Engine 1.8+ on Windows, Mac, or Linux
Operating system should minimum 3.25 GB of RAM and it’s tested up to 1 TB.
UN-Supported Features
Replication/mirroring
Poly-base, stretched DB
System extended stored procedures (XP_CMDShell, etc.)
Windows/AD authentication
User certificate SSL/TLS
Agent service / Brower / Reporting service
More Details
Installation demo of SQL on Ubuntu 16.04 Server
Configure prerequisite
Step 1 Download Ubuntu server ISO
Step 2 Create a new Linux OS in your virtual environment. You should have atleast 4 GB RAM & 20 GB disk space (Recommend Test environment). Supply ‘User Name’ & ‘Password’ that will be used to login in terminal (command prompt of Linux), start the installation.
Step 3. Installation will continue without any user intervention.
Step 4. Once installed successfully, supply user name / password (Refer Step 2) to login in terminal.
Step 5. Get yourself familiarize with Linux Ubuntu commands.
Get the OS details.
IP address of machine
Hostname of machine
Check connectivity with internet using ‘ping’
lsb_release –a ifconfig hostname ping help.ubuntu.com
If you wish to change IP address then refer
Step 6. Install the Open SSH client applications on Ubuntu server so you will be able to take terminal access remotely using putty and it will help to insert commands easily.
sudo apt-get install openssh-server openssh-client
(All above steps are shown in following slide show)
Installation & configuration of SQL Server
Step 1 Ensure your system is fully updated before installing SQL.
sudo apt-get update
Step 2. Install curl (curl is a tool to transfer data from OR to a server using supported protocol (http,imap, ldap…etc)
sudo su sudo apt-get install curl
STEP 3 Add ‘SQL Server’ information to the repository on ‘/etc/apt/sources.list.d/’
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/16.04/mssql-server.list >/etc/apt/sources.list.d/mssql-server.list curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | apt-key add
STEP 4 Install SQL server.
sudo apt-get install mssql-server
STEP 5 Run the configuration script to accept the license agreement and provide the System Administrator (SA) password.
sudo /opt/mssql/bin/mssql-conf setup
STEP 6 SQL service will be enable/start by default. If it does not then enable and start the service. Also verify if SQL is listening on port 1433
sudo systemctl enable mssql-server sudo systemctl start mssql-server sudo netstat -peant | grep ":1433"
STEP 7 The SQL server is ready, DBA now can access SQL server using ADO.NET client OR SQL Management Studio installed on Windows machine for Admin purpose.
(All above steps are shown in following slide show)
Installation of SQL Server command-line tools (SQLCMD)
Step1 Download SQLCMD tool and ODBC Drivers..
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/16.04/prod.list>/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ms-prod.list sudo apt-get update
Step 2 Install SQLCMD tool and ODBC Drivers.
sudo apt-get install mssql-tools
Accept license agreement.
Step 3 Create symlink for SQLCMD and
ln -sfn /opt/mssql-tools/bin/sqlcmd /usr/bin/sqlcmd
Step 4 Connect SQL server using SQLCMD then create database, table & inserts few rows.
sqlcmd -S 192.168.132.132 -U SA -P Password123# Use [master] create database LinuxDBTest go use LinuxDBTest create table t1 (c1 int, c2 varchar(100)) go insert into t1 values (1, 'pradeep') go select * from t1
Step 5 Verify DB, Tables & row using SSMS.
