Andrew Pruski walks us through setting up SQL Server 2019 CTP 2 on Linux with Docker for Windows:
If you’ve been anywhere near social media this week you may have seen that Microsoft has announced SQL Server 2019.
I love it when a new version of SQL is released. There’s always a whole new bunch of features (and improvements to existing ones) that I want to check out. What I’m not too keen on however is installing a preview version of SQL Server on my local machine. It’s not going to be there permanently and I don’t want the hassle of having to uninstall it.
This is where containers come into their own. We can run a copy of SQL Server without it touching our local machine.
Click through for the step-by-step.