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B. WardSQL Server 2019 Revealedhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5419-6_6

6. SQL Server 2019 on Linux

Bob Ward1 
(1)
North Richland Hills, Texas, USA
 

In this chapter, I’ll describe what is new for SQL Server 2019 on Linux. However, if you are new to SQL Server on Linux, I’ll start the chapter by reviewing the amazing story of how and why we built SQL Server to run on Linux.

The Amazing Story of SQL Server on Linux

In October of 2017, our SQL Server engineering team rocked the industry by shipping SQL Server for Linux on platforms such as Red Hat, Ubuntu, and SUSE. Our engineering team was able to bring SQL Server to market using a very innovative strategy and architecture with software known as the SQL Platform Abstraction Layer (SQLPAL) ...

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