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SQL Server on Linux

You're reading from  SQL Server on Linux

Product type Book
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788291804
Pages 222 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Toc

Table of Contents (19) Chapters close

Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
1. Linux Distributions 2. Installation and Configuration 3. SQL Server Basics 4. Database in the Sandbox 5. Sample Databases 6. A Crash Course in Querying 7. Backup and Recovery Operations 8. User Management 9. Implementing Data Protection 10. Indexing 11. In-Memory OLTP 12. Beyond SQL Server

Working environments and tools


In Chapter 2, Installation and Configuration, we covered the installation procedure of SQL Server database engine and command-line tools. In this phase of development (CTP 1.3 - RC1) there is a limited number of tools to interact with SQL Server. But that will be changed in the near future. If this book was about the Windows platform, then content would likely be different, but this does not mean that we don't have quality tools to work with this database engine.

Here is a list of the most used currently supported tools on Linux and Windows platforms:

  • sqlcmd (Linux)
  • bpc (Linux)
  • Visual Studio Code (Linux)
  • SSMS (Windows)

sqlcmd

The command-line utility, sqlcmd, offers batch execution of T-SQL scripts and a simple utility for executing T-SQL statements. It will be our primary interaction interface with SQL Server database engine. If you want to connect to your SQL Server instance you will need to type sqlcmd and the following parameters: (-S server name, -U user name...

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