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SQL Server on Linux

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SQL Server on Linux

Overview of this book

Microsoft's launch of SQL Server on Linux has made SQL Server a truly versatile platform across different operating systems and data-types, both on-premise and on-cloud. This book is your handy guide to setting up and implementing your SQL Server solution on the open source Linux platform. You will start by understanding how SQL Server can be installed on supported and unsupported Linux distributions. Then you will brush up your SQL Server skills by creating and querying database objects and implementing basic administration tasks to support business continuity, including security and performance optimization. This book will also take you beyond the basics and highlight some advanced topics such as in-memory OLTP and temporal tables. By the end of this book, you will be able to recognize and utilize the full potential of setting up an efficient SQL Server database solution in your Linux environment.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Database in the Sandbox

The first major stop during our journey on SQL Server on Linux is SQL coding. To be more precise, we will write some DDL and DML statements which will provide us with a testing playground. That environment will be used now for practice and later when we need to use it again. This chapter is for all Linux users, and no SQL experience is necessary.

We will cover the following topics:

  • DDL statements
  • Creating a new database
  • Creating new tables
  • DML statements
  • Data manipulation
  • Creating database objects