Install SQL Server 2017
1.Import the public repository GPG keys:
wget -qO- https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | sudo apt-key add -
2.Register the Microsoft SQL Server Ubuntu repository:
sudo add-apt-repository "$(wget -qO- https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/18.04/mssql-server-2017.list)"
3.Run the following commands to install SQL Server:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y mssql-server
4.After the package installation finishes, run mssql-conf setup and follow the prompts to set the SA password and choose your edition.
sudo /opt/mssql/bin/mssql-conf setup
5.Once the configuration is done, verify that the service is running:
systemctl status mssql-server --no-pager
Install the SQL Server command-line tools
sudo apt install curl
1.Import the public repository GPG keys.
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | sudo apt-key add -
2.Register the Microsoft Ubuntu repository.
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/18.04/prod.list | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/msprod.list
3.Update the sources list and run the installation command with the unixODBC developer package. For more information, see Install the Microsoft ODBC driver for SQL Server (Linux).
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mssql-tools unixodbc-dev
4.Optional: Add /opt/mssql-tools/bin/ to your PATH environment variable in a bash shell.
echo 'export PATH="$PATH:/opt/mssql-tools/bin"' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'export PATH="$PATH:/opt/mssql-tools/bin"' >> ~/.bashrc source ~/.bashrc
Connect locally
sqlcmd -S localhost -U SA -P '<YourPassword>'
SELECT Name from sys.Databases GO