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SQL Server on Linux

You're reading from   SQL Server on Linux Configuring and administering your SQL Server solution on Linux

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788291804
Length 222 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jasmin Azemović Jasmin Azemović
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Preface 1. Linux Distributions 2. Installation and Configuration FREE CHAPTER 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

Mssql-scripter tool

Microsoft is pushing really hard to fill in the gaps in the world of Linux regarding SQL Server on Linux. In the Windows environment, it has it all, from the official application over third-party and other commercial, non-commercial, and open source tools.

In this phase of development, CTP 1.3 - RC1, Microsoft started two open source projects on GitHub to help the Linux community become quicker and more productive using SQL Server on Linux. One of them is mssql-scripter (https://github.com/Microsoft/sql-xplat-cli)

It is a cross-platform, command-line interface with the purpose of generating DDL and DML scripts. If you are dealing with databases, then you will appreciate this quite impressive tool. With a simple command, you can export schema from your database, for example, AdventureWorks, and recreate it on the other server. Also, it is easy to script all...

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