Today I did my first installation of SQL Server on Linux and it was a breeze. Just “apt-get install mssql-server” and “apt-get install mssql-tools”. Then connect to the server with “sqlcmd -S localhost -U sa” and voilà:
You can find the full installation guide here.
Throughout the years I have done a lot of SQL Server installations but today was by far the fastest.
Christmas time is coming and I will spent some of it on testing SQL Server on Linux and going through all the configuration settings of mssql-conf.