How to Run SQL Server 2017 on Linux

Learn more about SQL Server’s extension to Linux Platform and how was it done!

SQL Server 2017 has extended its availability for Linux Platform recently and it has become the talk of the town since the day it was announced. Microsoft’s move to integrate Linux platform with SQL proves that Microsoft is sincere on its front for being an open source oriented company and according to the company the move was however essential as they no longer wanted to limit their customers to windows for database management.

SQL on Linux was announced in March and the company has recently launched its first Public Preview SQL Server v.Next CTP1 at their conference. Microsoft’s move was praised and garnered positive reactions from their active users and communities. The preview got 21,000 downloads from its users in just two weeks of its release.

Let’s find out some insights about the SQL Server on Linux.
SQLPAL
The inclusion of SQL server in the world of Linux was made possible with the help of Platform Abstraction Layer. The layer basically helped in aligning all the platform specific codes and OS in one place. The PAL was never brought to use because of SQL Server’s long term commitment to Windows but everything is different with Linux. To bring SQL to Linux, there was a need to bring fully functional scale value of SQL Server RDBMS and performance to Linux platform. It was required that the applications which worked well on windows should work with equal ease on Linux.

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