How Much Linux Do You Need?
With SQL Server on Linux becoming more popular, Steve asks if you think you need to know much about that OS.
2025-02-14
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With SQL Server on Linux becoming more popular, Steve asks if you think you need to know much about that OS.
2025-02-14
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Microsoft built SQL Server on Linux. Are people coming to use it? Are you?
2023-09-22
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Learn how to get Windows Authentication working on an Ubuntu SQL Server on Linux instance.
2020-09-08
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2020-02-11
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Microsoft announced that Linux runs on more machines in Azure than Windows. Steve isn't surprised and thinks that Linux use will continue to grow.
2025-05-26 (first published: 2019-07-06)
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In this article you will learn how to create and use alias commands for Docker, to make Docker's command line experience easier and more productive.
2019-05-20
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Have you ever wonder how to import flat files to SQL Server on Linux? In this article, I will share my experience loading data to a Linux SQL Server instance using the new Azure Data Studio data import extension from macOS.
2021-01-22 (first published: 2018-11-05)
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SQL Server 2017 is the first SQL Server version that can be installed on Windows, Linux and inside a Docker container. This stairway series serves as a guide for the experienced SQL Server DBA to acquire skills and knowledge on this platform. This is an introductory series to installing Linux and SQL Server on Linux.
2018-08-09
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In this tip John Grover will help you make the transition to SQL Server on Linux by explaining the things you need to know.
2017-07-19
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Although SQL Server for Linux removes the concern that adopting SQL Server forces you to also adopt the Windows platform, it could also provide a useful alternative platform, and a more obvious alternative to Oracle. There are, however, several obvious concerns as to how such a product could ever achieve parity with the existing Windows-based product. Microsoft have made an interesting move with several ramifications, as Robert Sheldon explains.
2016-09-30
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Have you ever received the dreaded error from SQL Server that the TempDB log...
Hi everyone I am writing an SP where there is logic inside the SP...
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We have a BI-application that connects to input tables on a SQL Server 2022...
I try to run this code on SQL Server 2022. All the objects exist in the database.
CREATE OR ALTER VIEW OrderShipping AS SELECT cl.CityNameID, cl.CityName, o.OrderID, o.Customer, o.OrderDate, o.CustomerID, o.cityId FROM dbo.CityList AS cl INNER JOIN dbo.[Order] AS o ON o.cityId = cl.CityNameID GO CREATE OR ALTER FUNCTION GetShipCityForOrder ( @OrderID INT ) RETURNS VARCHAR(50) WITH SCHEMABINDING AS BEGIN DECLARE @city VARCHAR(50); SELECT @city = os.CityName FROM dbo.OrderShipping AS os WHERE os.OrderID = @OrderID; RETURN @city; END; goWhat is the result? See possible answers