SQL Server 2017 on Linux - SQL Server 2017 will run natively on Linux - It provides the same features and capabilities as SQL Server on Windows - It supports the same editions as Windows and can be licensed with the same license - It has the same database engine and core services as Windows - Some advanced features like PolyBase and Stretch Database are not yet supported on Linux - It uses a new platform abstraction layer to run on Linux

1. SQL Server 2017
on Linux
Maxi Accotto (MVP Data Platform)
www.triggerdb.com

2. SQL Server on Linux Agenda
• Why SQL Server on Linux?
• Scope
• Architecture
• Demo!
• Schedule
• How to get involved

3. Businesses
are embracing
choice
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T-SQL
Java
C/C++
C#/VB.NET
PHP
Node.js
Python
Ruby
Heterogenous
environments
Multiple data types
Different
development languages
On-premises, cloud,
and hybrid environments

4. Microsoft
is delivering
on choice
SQL Server on Linux
HDInsight on Linux
R Server on Linux
Linux in Azure
SQL Server drivers
and connectivity
Visual Studio Code
extension for SQL Server
Python,
Ruby, …
20,000 applications for the SQL Server on Linux private
preview program, including more than 55% of Fortune
500 companies.
NEW

5. On the platform of your choice
SQL Server v.Next
Targeting CY2017
SQL Server v.Next GA*
SQL Server v.Next Public Preview available now on Linux, Windows, and Docker.

6. • Buying a SQL Server license—per-
server or per-core—grants the
option to use it on Windows Server
or Linux
• Previews are free to download and
use in a non-production capacity
• Same set of editions on Linux:
Developer, Express, Standard, Web,
Enterprise
LICENSE
Licensing
Same license, new choice

7. Stay ahead of the competition with the latest innovations
Be future-ready with Software Assurance
TODAY vNEXT v∞
Always have access to the latest New Version Rights
• Improve productivity with the
latest technologies
• Lower the cost of acquiring new
product versions
• Simplify licensing, budgeting and
administration

8. Scope

9. Windows Linux GA
Developer, Express, Web, Standard, Enterprise  
Database Engine  
R Services, Integration Services, Analysis Services, Reporting Services, MDS,
DQS

Maximum number of cores Unlimited TBD
Maximum memory utilized per instance 12 TB TBD
Maximum database size 524 PB TBD
Basic OLTP (Basic In-Memory OLTP, Basic operational analytics)  
Advanced OLTP (Advanced In-Memory OLTP, Advanced operational analytics)  
Basic high availability (2-node single database failover, non-readable
secondary)
 
Advanced HA (Always On - multi-node, multi-db failover, readable secondaries)  
Security
Basic security (Basic auditing, Row-level security, Data masking, Always
Encrypted)
 
Advanced security (Transparent Data Encryption)  
Data
warehousing
PolyBase2 
Basic data warehousing/data marts (Basic In-Memory ColumnStore,
Partitioning, Compression)
 
Advanced data warehousing (Advanced In-Memory ColumnStore)  
Advanced data integration (Fuzzy grouping and look ups) 
Tools
Windows ecosystem: Full-fidelity Management & Dev Tool (SSMS & SSDT),
command line tools
 
Linux/OSX/Windows ecosystem: Dev tools (VS Code), DB Admin GUI tool,
command line tools
 
Developer
Programmability (T-SQL, CLR, Data Types, JSON)  
Windows Filesystem Integration - FileTable 
BI & Advanced
Analytics
Basic Corporate Business Intelligence (Multi-dimensional models, Basic tabular
model)

Basic “R” integration (Connectivity to R Open, Limited parallelism for ScaleR) 
Advanced “R” integration (Full parallelism for ScaleR) 
Hybrid cloud Stretch Database 
What’s
coming in
SQL Server
on Linux

10. Programming Features
• Support for RHEL, Ubuntu, Docker
• Package based installs, Docker image
• Support for Open Shift, Docker Swarm
• Failover Clustering through Pacemaker
• Backup/Restore
• SSMS on Windows connected to Linux
• Command line tools: sqlcmd, bcp, sqlpackage
• SQL Server Agent
• Replication
• Log Shipping
• Transparent Data Encryption
• SCOM Management Pack
• DMVs
• Full Text Search
Operations Features
• All major language driver compatibility
• In memory OLTP and ColumnStore
• Compression
• Always Encrypted, Row Level Security, and Data Masking
• Service Broker
• Change Data Capture
• Partitioning
• Auditing
• CLR
• JSON, XML
• Third party tools
What’s working already?
…and more!

11. Linux Containers
Windows
Windows Server
• RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.3
• SUSE Enterprise Linux (SLES) v12 SP2
• Ubuntu 16.04 & 16.10
• Possibly other Linux distributions
• Docker: Windows & Linux containers
• Windows Server / Windows 10
• Package based installation
Example: yum install mssql-server

12. SQL Control Access
Database access SQL Authentication
Active Directory Authentication
Granular Permissions
Application access Row-Level Security
Dynamic Data Masking
Monitor Access
Tracking activities Fine-Grained Audit
Protect Data
Encryption at rest Transparent Data Encryption
Backup Encryption
Cell-Level Encryption
Encryption in transit Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS)
Encryption in use (client) Always Encrypted
Protect Data
Encryption at rest Transparent Data Encryption
Backup Encryption
Cell-Level Encryption
Encryption in transit Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS)*
Encryption in use (client) Always Encrypted
Control Access
Database access SQL Authentication
Active Directory Authentication*
Granular Permissions
Application access Row-Level Security
Dynamic Data Masking
*In progress

13. • Resilience against guest & OS
level failures
• Planned & unplanned events
• Minimum downtime for patching
and upgrades
• Minutes RTO
Simple HADR
VM Failure
• Protection against accidental or
malicious data corruption
• DR protection
• Minutes to hours RTO
Backup/Restore
• Instance level protection
• Automatic failure detection &
failover
• Seconds to minutes RTO
• Resilience against OS and SQL
Server failures
Standard HADR
Failover Cluster
• AG with 2 replicas
Basic Availability Groups*
• Warm standbys for DR
Log Shipping*
• Database level protection
• Seconds RTO
• No data loss
• Recover from unplanned outage
• No downtime for planned
maintenance
• Offload read/backup workload
to active secondaries
• Failover to geographically
distributed secondary site
Availability Groups*
Mission-Critical HADR
*In progress

14. • Windows-based SQL Server tools
like SSMS, SSDT, Profiler work
when connected to SQL Server on
Linux
• 3rd party tools continue to work
• Native command line tools:
sqlcmd, bcp, sqlpackage
• Visual Studio Code extension
• New cross-platform DB admin GUI
tool (planned)
• All existing drivers and frameworks
supported

15. Architecture

16. SQL Platform Abstraction Layer
(SQLPAL)
RDBMS IS AS RS
Windows Linux
Windows
Host Ext.
Linux Host
Extension
SQL Platform Abstraction Layer
(SQLPAL)
Win32-like APIs
Host Extension mapping to OS system calls
(IO, Memory, CPU scheduling)
SQL OS API
SQL OS v2
Everything else
System Resource &
Latency Sensitive
Code Paths

17. sudo zypper addrepo -fc https://packages.microsoft.com/config/sles/12/mssql-server.repo
sudo zypper --gpg-auto-import-keys refresh
Paso 1: Download the Microsoft SQL Server SLES repository configuration file
Paso 2: Install SQL Server
sudo zypper install mssql-server
Paso 3: Setup SQL Server
sudo /opt/mssql/bin/mssql-conf setup
Paso 4: Verificar estado
systemctl status mssql-server

18. sudo zypper addrepo -fc https://packages.microsoft.com/config/sles/12/prod.repo
sudo zypper --gpg-auto-import-keys refresh
Paso 2: Add the Microsoft SQL Server repository to Zypper
Paso 3: Install mssql-tools with the unixODBC developer package.
sudo zypper install mssql-tools unixODBC-devel
sudo zypper install mssql-server-agent
sudo systemctl restart mssql-server
Paso 1: Install mssql-server-agent

19. echo 'export PATH="$PATH:/opt/mssql-tools/bin"' >> ~/.bash_profile

20. sudo zypper install mssql-server-fts
Paso 1: Install FTS

21. /opt/mssql/bin/mssql-conf
mssql-conf
sudo /opt/mssql/bin/mssql-conf set tcpport <new_tcp_port>
sudo systemctl restart mssql-server
sudo /opt/mssql/bin/mssql-conf traceflag 2345 3456 on
sudo systemctl restart mssql-server

22. sudo /opt/mssql/bin/mssql-conf set-collation
Latin1_General_CI_AS

23. Q&A