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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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Allan Hirt Allan Hirt
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

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

5. SQL Server 2019 on Linux

For those new to Linux, there is a rich and deep history of the platform, just as there is one for Windows. At one time, most database administrators (DBAs) avoided running databases on Linux due to the age of the operating system (OS) compared to more mature distributions of Unix. Linux was only introduced in 1991 by Linux Torvalds, and he was actively involved in much of its development after failed attempts with other distributions (including flavors of open-source Unix) such as Hurd.  

As with other open-source Unix distributions, Linux development is done on the GNU or Intel C Compiler. Linus hoped to limit any commercial activity, but in the end, Linux has become the most widely used OS distribution used on enterprise servers. Numerous Linux distributions exist, including Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat, and Fedora. Microsoft recently announced there are now more virtual machines (VMs) running Linux than Windows in the Azure cloud...

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