Tag Archives: Linux

Using OPENROWSET in SQL Server on Linux

Posted on June 21, 2017 by

I wanted to import the million song dataset in SQL Server on Linux. There’s a github repo that has the SQL to allow you to use this with the graph database features. However, it’s built for Windows. Linux is a … Continue reading →

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Do I Need to Learn Linux and R and Python?

Posted on May 26, 2017 by

The big changes coming in SQL Server 2017 are the Linux version and the addition of Python as a language used to analyze data. In SQL Server 2016, we had the R language added, and quite a few people have … Continue reading →

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SQL Server on Linux is Just SQL Server

Posted on April 27, 2017 by

I’ve been working with the SQL Server on Linux (SSoL) version for quite some time, almost a year. In all of that time, I’ve for the most part found that SQL Server is SQL Server. When I connect, run demos, … Continue reading →

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SQL Server on Linux (Ubuntu)–Updating from Early CTP

Posted on April 19, 2017 by

I’ve been testing the SQL Server on Linux for a long time. After the recent Microsoft Data Amp event, I saw the announcement for CTP-2. So I did what I’ve been doing for some time on my Ubuntu machine: sudo … Continue reading →

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Upgrading SQL Server on Linux

Posted on February 23, 2017 by

I saw this week that there was a new CTP (v1.3) of SQL Server v.Next. I haven’t had a lot of time to work on the Linux version lately, but I thought I’d try and see how well the upgrade … Continue reading →

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Not Excited by Linux

Posted on January 11, 2017 by

You’re not excited by Linux. At least most of you in this community aren’t excited. A recent poll we ran showed that nearly two thirds of the people answering aren’t interested in even evaluating SQL Server on Linux. That’s an … Continue reading →

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PoSh Everywhere

Posted on August 20, 2016 by

This week we had an announcement that PowerShell has been released as an open source project and is available on some Linux platforms as well as OSX. I was actually talking with someone else that had been informed prior to … Continue reading →

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PoSh on Ubuntu

Posted on August 19, 2016 by

I heard about the PowerShell announcement recently where the platform is porting over to Linux and OSX. I think this is part of the SQL Server on Linux project, where I assume we’ll start to see the functionality that we … Continue reading →

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