Running Linux SQL Server as a Container

Phil Factor starts a series of articles that will demonstrate the use of temporary SQL Server instances, running in Linux containers, into which we can deploy the latest database...

Azure SQL Linux VM – configuring SQL, installing pwsh and connecting and interacting with dbatools

In my posts about using Azure Devops to build Azure resources with Terraform, I built a Linux SQL VM. I used the Terrafrom in this GitHub repository and created...

Using local repositories with SQL Server on Linux

In this post I want to discuss something I talked about with my colleagues previously relating to offline installations of SQL Server on Linux. Which is something that has been on my mind for a while now.

Default Memory on Linux

SQL Server on Linux – how does it actually work?

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Upgrading SQL Server on Linux

This quick blog posting shows how easy it is to upgrade SQL Server on Linux.

Installing and Configuring SQL Server on Linux

I have already shown you in the past how to install and run SQL Server in Docker Containers, and how to deploy Availability Groups and stand-alone SQL Server Instances into Kubernetes Clusters. In today’s blog posting I want to continue this discussion and you will learn how to install and configure SQL Server on Linux.

SQL Server Data Pages on Linux

One of the new phrases coming out of Microsoft is that “SQL is just SQL” regardless of what operating system it resides on. This was echoed during the keynote at SQL Bits 2019 by the Microsoft team, which you can watch here.

Setting Linux Memory

Changing the default log folder on Linux