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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)

Summary

You should now have sufficient skills to recognize scenarios that require the use of aggregations based on AVG, SUM, COUNT, and other set-based functions. You'll also have an understanding of the GROUP BY clause, and filtering result sets with HAVING. Also, you should be able to create queries that can be used to support the basic forms of reporting. The database typically contains dozens of tables, and it is therefore extremely important that you master creating queries over multiple tables. This includes knowledge of the functioning JOIN operators with a combination of elements of string manipulation. This chapter completes this aspect of SQL Server on Linux.

In the next chapter, we will cover topics relevant for administration and database operations.