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SQL Server on Linux 2022 Available in Preview

Published 2023-08-14 by Kevin Feasel

Amit Khandelwal has an update on SQL Server on Linux:

We are glad to announce that SQL Server 2022 is now available in preview mode for both Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 and Ubuntu 22.04. For this preview, only Evaluation edition is available, which is limited to 180 days starting Thursday, July 27th, 2023. 

In your Dev/Test environments, you may now take advantage of the most recent SQL Server 2022 improvements on both RHEL 9 and Ubuntu 22.04. Currently, production workloads on RHEL 9 and Ubuntu 22.04 are not supported by the SQL Server 2022 preview packages. You can run the production workloads for SQL Server 2022 on RHEL 8 and Ubuntu 22.04 and they are fully supported. 

I’m going to wait until it’s actually available for real, not just in preview.

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PolyBase and S3 Integration in SQL Server 2022 on Containers

Published 2023-01-17 by Kevin Feasel

Amit 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.

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SQL Server on Windows 11 WSL

Published 2022-09-28 by Kevin Feasel

Andrew 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.

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Deploying SQL Server via AKS

Published 2022-09-02 by Kevin Feasel

Rajendra 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.

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Installing SQL Server on CentOS

Published 2022-08-25 by Kevin Feasel

Nisarg 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.

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SQL Server on Linux: No More GDR Repos

Published 2022-08-25 by Kevin Feasel

Amit 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.

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Cross-Platform SQL Server Availability Groups

Published 2022-08-11 by Kevin Feasel

Rajendra Gupta shows how to set up an Availability Group in SQL Server which runs on both Windows and Linux:

Microsoft 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.

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SQL Server Container Images and RHEL/Ubuntu Versions

Published 2022-07-19 by Kevin Feasel

Amit 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.

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SQL Server 2022 Public Preview on Linux

Published 2022-06-03 by Kevin Feasel

Amit 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.

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