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Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2019

You're reading from   Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Reliability, scalability, and security both on premises and in the cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838826215
Length 488 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Optimizing for performance, scalability and real‑time insights 2. Enterprise Security FREE CHAPTER 3. High Availability and Disaster Recovery 4. Hybrid Features – SQL Server and Microsoft Azure 5. SQL Server 2019 on Linux 6. SQL Server 2019 in Containers and Kubernetes 7. Data Virtualization 8. Machine Learning Services Extensibility Framework 9. SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters 10. Enhancing the Developer Experience 11. Data Warehousing 12. Analysis Services 13. Power BI Report Server 14. Modernization to the Azure Cloud

Command-line query tools for SQL in Linux

There are two primary command-line query tools that are available for SQL Server on Linux, one that is old and one that is brand new:

  • sqlcmd
  • mssql-cli

SQLCMD

For the SQL DBA, SQLCMD is a familiar command-line tool that is also available in Linux. This is part of the mssql-tools installation that will be available for most, if not all, SQL Servers on Linux, and can be used to run scripts, query databases, and system procedures.

Installation differs depending the Linux distribution, but for our example, the Ubuntu installation will be used to show how an installation would be performed to update the package to your Ubuntu update for the latest mssql-tools package and then installation:

sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install mssql-tools

Updates are regularly available for the SQLCMD utility. The newest additions are available for the following Linux distributions, and now include Azure Active Directory multi-factor...

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