This technical session shows how to configure the new SQL Server 2017 release on the Linux platform for production-ready architecture, including topics such as setting up additional drives and backing up over the network.

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• Performance Tuning
• Business Continuity
• Virtualization & Cloud
• Infrastructure Architecture
• Health & Efficiency
• Capacity Management Founder & Technical Exorcist

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4.  SQL Server actually joint project with Sybase for OS/2
 Steve Ballmer: “Linux is a cancer…”
 First came HDInsight & Hadoop on Linux
 Microsoft is a different company
 IMHO: This is just the beginning…
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5.  Appeal to broader customer environments
 Deliver consistent database platform, no matter the OS platform
 Other DBMS migrations stay on same OS
 Another jab at Oracle
 Containers (Docker)
 Linux is a great cloud platform
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7.  Rewrite 70+ million lines of code?
 Platform Abstraction Layer (PAL)
 SQLOS
 Drawbridge + SQLOS = PAL
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10.  Merge the two
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12. Database Engine High Availability Security Services
Backup / restore Failover clustering
(Pacemaker)
Always Encrypted, data masking,
row level security
Agent
Core engine functionality Availability Groups
(Pacemaker)
TDE Service Broker
DMVs Replication Active Directory Authentication SSIS
SQL Agent Log shipping CDC R
In-memory features Auditing
TLS 1.0 – 1.2
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13. Database Engine High Availability Security Services
Distributed query Database mirroring Extensible Key Management Browser
Extended SPs (xp_cmdshell) Must failover of AGs via T-
SQL
User-supplied certs for SSL / TLS SSAS, SSRS
CLR assemblies (with
EXTERNAL_ACCESS or UNSAFE
permission set)
Failover to async AG (bug) Data Quality Services
Replication Master Data Services
Filetable, Stretch DB, Polybase
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14.  It’s the same code!
 My testing: 85-100+%
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15.  Windows Core
 Windows GUI
 Linux server
 Linux server + GUI
 Linux desktop + server apps

16. Command Windows Linux
Directory list dir ls
Change directory cd cd
Make directory md mkdir
Remove directory rd rmdir
Delete del rm
Echo echo echo
Display file contents type cat
Command Windows Linux
Copy a file copy cp
Move a file move mv
Rename a file ren mv
Run as elevated runas sudo
Find string in a file find grep
Change file attributes attrib chmod
Change group attributes attrib chgrp
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17.  ‘root’
 sudo command here
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19. Windows Server File / Folder Linux Mountpoint
(no equivalent) /
C:Usersusername /home/username
C:Windows /bin, /sbin
%WINDOWSTEMP% /tmp
C:Program Files /opt, /usr/bin, /usr/local
Libraries, source code, binaries /usr
System Logs /var
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22.  Credentials in secure file (~/.smbcredentials)
 Install cifs-utils package
 Mkdir /path/to/mounted/share
 sudo mount /path/to/mounted/share
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25.  chown –R mssql.mssql /var/opt/mssql/data/datadisk
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26.  Add repository location and key
 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/sql-server-linux-setup
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27.  Red Hat / CentOS
 sudo yum install –y mssql-server
 Ubuntu
 sudo apt-get install –y mssql-server
 SLES
 sudo zypper install –y mssql-server
 Docker
 docker pull microsoft/mssql-server-linux
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29.  Great addition to the toolbox
 Sign of greater positive change from within MS
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