Microsoft SQL Server provides a full-featured database for Linux that offers high performance, security and flexibility across languages and platforms at a lower cost compared to other commercial databases. It has the most consistent data platform with industry-leading performance on Linux and Windows and supports machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities. SQL Server on Linux allows customers to deploy the database on their choice of Linux distribution for both traditional and container-based workloads.

2. End-to-end mobile BI
on any device
Choice of platform
and language
Most secure
over the last 7 years
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A fraction of the cost
Self-serviceBIperuser
Only commercial DB
with AI built-in
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$480
$2,230
Industry-leading
performance
1/10
Most consistent data platform
#1 TPC-H performance
1TB, 10TB, 30TB
#1 TPC-E performance
#1 price/performance
T-SQL
Java
C/C++
C#/VB.NET
PHP
Node.js
Python
Ruby
R
R and Python +
in-memory at massive scale
Native T-SQL scoring
S Q L S E R V E R 2 0 1 7
I N D U S T R Y - L E A D I N G P E R F O R M A N C E A N D S E C U R I T Y N O W O N L I N U X A N D D O C K E R
Private cloud Public cloud
In-memory across all workloads
1/10th the cost of Oracle

3. F L E X I B L E , R E L I A B L E
D ATA M A N A G E M E N T
SQL Server on the platform of
your choice
Support for RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL),
Ubuntu, and SUSE Enterprise Linux (SLES)
Linux and Windows Docker containers
Windows Server / Windows 10
Package-based installation: Yum Install, Apt-Get,
and Zypper
Database Compatibility on all Platforms
Choice of platform and language

4. Windows Linux
Editions Developer, Express, Web, Standard, Enterprise  
Services
Database Engine, Integration Services, SQL Server Agent  
ML Services, Analysis Services, Reporting Services, MDS, DQS 
Mission critical performance
and HADR
Maximum number of cores Unlimited Unlimited
Maximum memory utilized per instance 24 TB 12 TB
Maximum database size 524 PB 524 PB
Basic OLTP (Basic In-Memory OLTP, Basic operational analytics)  
Advanced OLTP (Advanced In-Memory OLTP, Advanced operational analytics, adaptive query processing)  
SQL Server Replication 
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, Active Directory Authentication)  
Advanced security (Transparent Data Encryption)  
Data warehousing
PolyBase 
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, Graph)  
Distributed Transactions 
What’s in SQL Server on Linux

5. Linux loves packages
• Major Linux distributions follow the
pattern of using a package manager.
• RHEL: RPM and yum.
• Ubuntu: Debian and apt-get
• SUSE: RPM and zypper.
• Package: binaries + instructions to install.
• Benefits: dependency management,
automatic versioning, one-tool-to-rule-
them-all, architecture control.
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6. mssql-conf
• mssql-conf is a configuration script that installs with SQL
Server 2017 on RHEL, SUSE, and Ubuntu. This utility can be
used to set:
• Enable SQL Server Agent
• TCP port
• Default data directory
• Default log directory
• Default dump directory
• Default backup directory
• Core dump type
• Enable Availability Groups
• Set startup traceflags
• Set collation
SQL Server also supports
config through
environment variables

7. Offline simple and
easy
Go for the complete
unattended
experience with
SQLCAT
Simple update to
the latest release
Rollback to a
previous update
Uninstall is easy
The Installation suite
Updates based on CU
or GDR repositories
rm –rf /var/opt/mssql

8. SQL Server Linux Architecture
LibOS (Win API and
Kernel)
Host Extension mapping to OS system calls
(IO, Memory, CPU scheduling)
SQLOS (SQLPAL)
SQL PAL
Everything else
System Resource &
Latency Sensitive Code
Paths
SQL Platform
Abstraction Layer (SQLPAL)
Linux Kernel
SQLSERVRSQLAGENT
ABI
API
Linux APIs (mmap, pthread_create, …)
Linux
Process
(Ring 3)
Ring 0
Based on Microsoft
Research
Drawbridge Project
Parent “Watchdog” processfork

10. Does it perform?
Go read what our
customers say
#1 TPC-H Benchmark1 at 1,009,065 QphH with price/performance of $0.47 USD per QphH
World’s First Enterprise Class Diskless Database
Columnstore Indexes and In-Memory OLTP full capabilities
180 Billon Rows scanned in < 20 secs with 480 CPUs
Adaptive Query Processing and Automatic Tuning
Linux Performance Best Practice Guidance
1 #1 non-clustered 1TB TPC-H (http://www.tpc.org/3331)

11. S Q L S E R V E R 2 0 1 7 : I N D U S T R Y - L E A D I N G S E C U R I T Y
SECURITY
Comprehensive, easy-to-use security to implement enterprise-grade protection
(Getting started: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/sql-server-linux-security-get-started)
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Information Protection
Access Management
Threat Protection
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Database access SQL Server Logins
Active Directory Authentication
Roles and permissions
Schemas
Application access Row-Level Security
Dynamic Data Masking
Encryption-at-rest Transparent data encryption (TDE)
Backup encryption
Cell-level encryption
Encryption in transit Transport Layer Security (TLS 1.2)
Client-side encryption Always Encrypted
Tracking & investigation Fine-grained audit
openssl and
linux config

12. AD Authentication on Linux
• Setup + Config requires Linux specifics (e.g. realm to join the domain)
• Built on Kerberos and GSSAPI
• The steps are….
Join SQL Server host to AD domain
Create AD user for SQL Server and set SPN
Configure SQL Server service keytab
Create AD-based logins in Transact-SQL
Connect to SQL Server using AD Authentication

13. SQL Server on Linux: HADR
CLUSTER_TYPE = EXTERNAL
Auto failover
Pacemaker
SQL resource agent (mssql-server-ha)
3 replicas required
Configuration only replica for
metadata
Full AG capabilities
Pacemaker and Corosync
Single SQL Server instance
SQL resource agent (mssql-server-ha)
Shared Storage
ISCI, NFS, SMB
CLUSTER_TYPE=NONE
No clustering required
Manual or forced failover
Sync or async replicas
Read scale routing
Cross-Platform
Failover Cluster Instance High Availability
Availability Group
Read-Scale
Availability Group
SQL Server HADR partners
Github open
source repo

14. • Existing command line tools
• sqlcmd, bcp, sqlpackage
• Visual Studio Code mssql extension
• SQL Operations Studio
• mssql-cli
• mssql-scripter
SQL Server 2017 on Linux
Tools and programmability
• Windows SQL Server Management
Studio (SSMS)
• Windows SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)
• 3rd party tools continue to work
• Existing drivers/frameworks supported

15. Docker Containers: What and why?
• Docker: Multi-platform container engine based
on Linux and Windows Containers.
• NOT virtualization
• Image
• lightweight, stand-alone, executable package that
includes everything needed to run a piece of
software, including the code, a runtime, libraries,
environment variables, and config files
• Container
• runtime instance of an image—what the image
becomes in memory when actually executed
• Imagine a world of “database containers”
• What is all this talk about DevOps and CI/CD?
• Kubernetes and Containers for HA

16. Persisted Storage
VM VM VM
Container Container Container
Portable
• Run anywhere Docker
is supported
Lightweight
• Reduced disk, CPU,
and memory footprint
Consistent
• Build a consistent
image of SQL Server,
scripts, and tools
Efficient
• Faster deployment,
reduced patching, and
less downtime

17. Node Node
Persistent Volume Claim
Node
Kubernetes
Deployment
“Shared storage” HA in Kubernetes
Pod
SQL Server
Deployment Load Balancer Service
Pod
SQL Server
Pod
SQL Server
SQL Server Containers Built-in HADR (No Clustering required) Built-in HADR (No Clustering required)

19. Migrating to SQL Server on Linux
SQL Server | SQL
VM | Azure SQL
Database | Azure
SQL Data
Warehouse
SQL Server Migration
Assistant (SSMA)
Legacy SQL Server
Data Migration
Assistant
Database Backup
Log Shipping
Clusterless AG (2017+ only)
Bulk Import
SSIS
Database Experimentation
Assistant
SQL Server 2017
on Linux

20. Challenge
• Technology solutions company incurred high
hardware and storage expenses
• Tier-two workloads of archived data hampered
profitability
Impact
• Cut costs 80% and time to ROI
70% with white box servers running
SQL Server on Linux
R E D U C E D H A R D W A R E
A N D S T O R A G E C O S T S
B Y 8 0 %
Easy migration from Windows to Linux
“Moving SQL Server from Windows
to Linux was actually one of the
easiest migration experiences that
we've had.”
Chris Amaris, Chief Technology Officer,
Convergent Computing

21. S Q L S E R V E R v N E X T
I N V E S T M E N T T H E M E S
Reason over any data, anywhere
Choice of language and platform
Industry leading performance and security
Only commercial database with AI built-in
Continued improvements to SQL Server on Linux

22. posts on Linux
Microsoft Virtual Academy Training
here
repo
show on Channel9
post
http://aka.ms/sqlchannel