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Running SQL Server 2019 In Docker

Published 2018-09-26 by Kevin Feasel

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.

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SQL Server On Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Published 2018-09-10 by Kevin Feasel

Avanish Panchal shows how to get SQL Server on Linux running on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:

April 26th, 2018 Ubuntu 18.04 released. A 7th long-term support release of the world’s most popular OSOS available in Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core versions. Tried quite a bit to install SQL Server 2017 on 18.04, but couldn’t get luck. Investigated quite a bit and came across few reasons. Lot of workaround are mentioned across web, however wondering easiest and simplest way, always.

Potential reason till SQL Server for Linux 2017 CU9 package had dependencies on OPENSSL version(1.0.0) but Ubuntu 18.04 LTS comes with OpenSSL 1.1. Microsoft has update the SQL Server 2017 installation package so it can use libssl1.0.0 pkg. However still found issue while installing today (08-Sep-2018). Realised Microsoft SQL Server on Linux 2017 CU10 was updated but still few changes are required at OS level i.e. Ubuntu 18.04.

Read on for screen shots showing how to fix the problem.

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Joining Your SQL Server On Linux VM To A Domain

Published 2018-09-05 by Kevin Feasel

Dylan Gray and Tejas Shah provides some tips on joining a SQL Server on Linux instance to an existing Active Directory domain:

AD authentication is a popular mechanism for login and user authentication. It works very well in many scenarios, especially for enterprise applications. AD authentication is a supported scenario on SQL Server on Linux. Configuring the Linux VM to join with Active Directory (AD) can be a little tricky at sometimes though, especially in a complex enterprise environment.

  • One error message you may see from “realm join” is “realm: Couldn’t join realm: This computer’s host name is not set correctly.” This is due to a generic hostname (e.g. “localhost”), an incorrect domain in your hostname (e.g. “host1.abcd.com” instead of “host1.contoso.com”), or a duplicate hostname on the domain. To fix this, edit /etc/hostname to have a unique hostname and reboot the machine. On Ubuntu, it can also be helpful to put the fully qualified domain name in /etc/hostname (e.g. “host1.contoso.com” instead of “host1”).

 

They provide in this post some of the low-hanging fruit answers, where the problem is in basic server configuration.

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What To Do After Installing SQL Server On Linux

Published 2018-08-31 by Kevin Feasel

Manoj Pandey has a few tips for what to do after installing SQL Server on Linux:

Here are some of the best practices post installing SQL Server on Linux that can help you maximize database performance:

1. To maintain efficient Linux and SQL Scheduling behavior, it’s recommended to use the ALTER SERVER CONFIGURATION command to set PROCESS AFFINITY for all the NUMANODEs and/or CPUs. [Setting Process Affinity]

2. To reduce the risk of tempdb concurrency slowdowns in high performance environments, configure multiple tempdb files by adding additional tempdb files by using the ADD FILE command. [tempdb Contention]

3. Use mssql-conf to configure the memory limit and ensure there’s enough free physical memory for the Linux operating system.

Some of these are common for Windows and Linux (like multiple tempdb files) but there are several Linux-specific items here.

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Getting Started With Linux

Published 2018-08-30 by Kevin Feasel

Kellyn Pot’vin-Gorman has a new series on learning Linux for SQL Server DBAs:

As this series of articles are published, it will be important that you have a way to do some hands on with Linux, not just read about this powerful operating system. To accomplish this, my recommendation is to download Docker for Windows.

Choosing to use Docker over a VM or a cloud deployment might seem odd at first, but I’ve found that Docker is the perfect option from the testing and classes I’ve led. The Docker image is light–using a minute number of resources on any laptop. Access to the docker image isn’t dependent upon Wi-Fi or the user having a cloud account. The image, for the most part, offers an experience that is incredibly similar to a full Linux server in functionality for no additional cost.

Once you’ve downloaded Docker and have it installed, create a Linux container with SQL Server on your workstation, (thanks to Microsoft) to work with and build your knowledge. Start by opening a Command Prompt, cmd from the search option in Windows.

This post is mostly setup and updating packages.  I also want to pitch We Speak Linux if you’re in this boat.  Kellyn did our inaugural webinar, too.

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A Minimalist Guide To Using SQL Server On Linux

Published 2018-08-20 by Kevin Feasel

Mark Litwintschik has a quick guide to installing and using SQL Server 2017 on Ubuntu:

SQL Server is Microsoft’s enterprise relational database offering. It was first released in 1989 and has seen support on various Windows and OS/2 platforms since it’s release. In October 2017, Microsoft released SQL Server 2017 for Linux. To date, Ubuntu 16, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 and 7.4 as well as SUSE Enterprise Linux Server v12 are supported.

Though the Linux distribution is missing features found in the Windows offering, the result is a very useful and feature-rich database that fits in well in a UNIX environment.

In this post I’ll walk through setting up SQL Server 2017, performing basic data import and export tasks as well as building reports via Jupyter Notebook and automating tasks using Apache Airflow.

Mark calls this a minimalist guide, but he does cover a lot of the basics.

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Tips For SQL Server On Linux + Docker

Published 2018-08-14 by Kevin Feasel

Kellyn Pot’vin-Gorman has a set of tips for working with SQL Server on Linux using Docker:

Easy Download

Docker is available for Mac and Windows with a simple installation by the defaults.

  1. Download the correct installation for your OS type.
  2. Run the installer and keep all the defaults, choosing Linux containers, not Windows containers
  3. Reboot Windows workstations- Done.

Incredibly Simple MSSQL Container Install

Microsoft has done a great job of creating a very small, (maybe a bit too small, but we’ll get into that later…) image that can be used to create a running Linux container with SQL Server.  This grants to student a great opportunity to simulate much of what it would be like to work on a real Linux server.

Click through to read the whole thing.  And Kellyn’s not kidding about the image missing basic packages.

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SSL Provider Error: 31 With SQL Server In Docker

Published 2018-08-07 by Kevin Feasel

Andrew Pruski walks us through fixing a connection error:

I recently bought a Dell XPS 13 running Ubuntu 16.04 and ran into an issue when connecting SQL Operations Studio (version 0.31.4) to SQL 2017 CU9 running in a docker container. Other people seem to encountering this issue as well so am posting it so that it may be of some help to someone in the future.

The error generated was: –

System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the pre-login handshake. (provider: SSL Provider, error: 31)

The full error can be viewed here

Read on for the solution.

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Installing Confluent Platform On Windows

Published 2018-07-12 by Kevin Feasel

Niels Berglund shows how to install Confluent Platform (the Confluent branded version of Apache Kafka) on a Windows machine using the Windows Subsystem for Linux:

WSL is primarily aimed at developers, and it allows you to run Linux environments directly on Windows in a native format and without the overhead of a virtual machine. Let us retake a look at that statement: run Linux environments directly on Windows in a native format. Yes native format, WSL is not a UNIX-like environment like Cygwin, which wraps non-Windows functionality in Win32 system calls but it serves Linux programs as special, isolated minimal processes (pico-processes) attached to kernel-mode pico-providers. If you want to read all the “gory” details about WSL: Windows Subsystem for Linux Overview gives you an excellent introduction.

Surprisingly, it’s pretty easy—I would have expected some strange compatibility issues.

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Installing SQL Server On Ubuntu 18.04

Published 2018-07-11 by Kevin Feasel

Max Trinidad shows us how to install SQL Server on Ubuntu 18.04, though he leads off with a warning:

This has been an issue for sometime until now. I found the following link that help me install SQL Server on the latest Ubuntu 18.04:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1032532/how-do-i-install-ms-sql-for-ubuntu-18-04-lts

But, there are few missing steps which can help ease the burden of errors. At the same time, the information is a little out-dated.

But, it works with the following adjustments.

Please Understand!!  This is NOT approved by Microsoft.  Use this method for Test Only!!

I’m waiting somewhat impatiently for Microsoft and Hortonworks to support Ubuntu 18.04.

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