A Fine Slice Of SQL Server
Rajendra Gupta gives us a walkthrough:
In this tutorial, I will walk you through installing Postgres on Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS. We will also cover basic setup tasks, such as setting the default password and creating a new user. Let us get started.
Read on for an image-filled tutorial.
Comments closedAmit Khandelwal combines a bunch of things together:
One of the new features introduced with SQL Server 2022 is the ability to connect to any S3-compatible object storage and SQL Server supports both Backup/Restore and data lake virtualization with Polybase integration. In this blog, we will demonstrate both of these features for SQL Server 2022 Containers running on Kubernetes. As usual, I will use the Azure Kubernetes Service as my Kubernetes environment
Most of the work is in the container configuration, which is good on net, as it means you only have to do it once.
Comments closedAndrew Pruski provides an update on SQL Server running on Windows Subsystem for Linux:
This happens because up until now, WSL did not support systemd. However recently Microsoft announced systemd support for WSL here: –
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/systemd-support-is-now-available-in-wsl/This is pretty cool and gives us another option for running SQL Server locally on linux (great for testing and getting to grips with the Linux platform).
So how can we get this up and running?
Read on for instructions, as well as a couple pitfalls Andrew ran into along the way.
Comments closedRajendra Gupta needs to deploy a SQL Server container:
This article uses Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to deploy and manage the Kubernetes cluster. It is a fully managed service that offers serverless Kubernetes with integrated CI/CD solutions, enterprise-grade security, and governance.
You can navigate to https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/services/kubernetes-service/#overview and try Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
Read on for an overview of Azure Kubernetes Service and how you can get a SQL Server on Linux container running atop it.
Comments closedNisarg Upadhyay has a walkthrough for us:
In this article, we will understand how we can manage a SQL Database in CentOS 8.0. This article is the first article on the topic Manage SQL Server on CentOS.
1. Step-by-step Installation of SQL Server and client tools in CentOS
2. Create and connect to the SQL Database
I have created a virtual machine on a workstation and installed CentOS 8.0. First, let us install SQL Server on CentOS.
One quick note is that CentOS is no longer officially supported as a platform for SQL Server on Linux. It’ll still work fine, though if you use it in production and run into a problem, there’s a risk that you wouldn’t be able to get timely support. Still, if you’re just trying it out on a personal device and you like the Red Hat-like experience versus Ubuntu-based distributions, getting Microsoft support isn’t all that relevant.
Comments closedAmit Khandelwal makes an announcement:
We would like to announce the recent change made to the Announcing the Modern Servicing Model for SQL Server – Microsoft Tech Community that applies for SQL Server on Linux/Container releases only.
We are moving forward with a Linux apt mainstream servicing lifecycle for SQL Server 2017 and later:
1. For SQL Server 2017 and above we will only have Cumulative Update (CU) based General Distribution Releases (GDRs), thus simplifying it for users to download the required updates through one single branch which is the CU (Cumulative Update) branch. Users need to subscribe and use only one single repository, that is the CU repository, to get all the critical fixes, product improvements or bug fixes.
2. The RTM (Release to Manufacturing) based GDR repository that contained base SQL Server release, critical fixes and security updates since that release, will be removed. As they worked only for older Linux distributions (RHEL 7, Ubuntu 16.04 & SLES 12).
Read on for the consequences of this.
Comments closedMicrosoft supports SQL Server on Linux, and it has many of the same features as the Windows version. You can restore databases from Windows to Linux SQL or vice versa. The Linux SQL works with Red Hat, Ubuntu, SUSE enterprise, Kubernetes containers, and Docker.
Windows-based SQL instance supports SQL Server Always On Availability Groups for high availability and disaster recovery. If you are not familiar with Windows AG configuration, refer to the extensive series on Always on Availability Group (Toc at the bottom).
If you have both Windows and Linux SQL Server, is it possible to configure an availability group between them? Let’s explore this in this article.
This example uses async mode, which is the easier one to set up. With synchronous, you’re probably looking at using Pacemaker to sort out AG status.
2 CommentsAmit Khandelwal announces a change:
To make this approach scalable & manageable, we will publish SQL Server container images to MCR based on the distribution’s most recent version, rather than publishing it for all versions of both RHEL and Ubuntu. Here’s an example to help you understand:
SQL Server 2017 supports Ubuntu 18.04 as the most recent distribution; thus, going forward SQL Server 2017 container images based on the Ubuntu 18.04 image will only be published to MCR and we will not publish the SQL Server 2017 container images for Ubuntu 16.04.
This seems fine to me. They focus on image support for the most recent fully-supported version and hopefully make it a bit better. I do wonder if that will change their overall Linux policy around version support, as that could be trickier to sell.
Comments closedAmit Khandelwal has notes on SQL Server 2022 on Linux:
In continuation of last week’s announcement of SQL Server 2022 public preview, we are pleased to announce availability of SQL Server 2022 on Linux/Containers for public preview. Here are the details for getting started with the SQL Server 2022 public preview packages on Linux/Containers.
As usual, the officially supported distributions are Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu.
Comments closedAmit Khandelwal reminds us that MSDTC exists:
It’s been a while since I’ve had the opportunity to write and share a blog post about SQL Server containers and Linux. Today, I’d like to show you how to set up and use MSDTC (Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator) to execute distributed transactions for SQL Server containers running on a Kubernetes platform.
Please see the following documentation for more information on DTC and SQL Server on Linux. How to configure MSDTC on Linux – SQL Server | Microsoft Docs.
I kid (sort of) but it is good to see as much parity between the Windows and Linux versions of SQL Server as possible.
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