Setup SQL Server instance on Linux on Docker
This blog post talks about the setup of a SQL server instance on a Linux machine running on Docker. The versions of the softwares used are mentioned below: Docker : Community Edition Version 17.06.1-ce-mac24 (18950) OS of machine running Docker : MacOS Sierra 10.12.6 SQL server : Microsoft SQL Server 2017 (RC2) - 14.0.900.75 (X64) Developer Edition (64-bit) on Linux (Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS) DBeaver : Community Edition 4.2.5 Steps taken for this setup were as follows: (1) Pull and run the container image. Pull the SQL Server 2017 Linux container image from Docker Hub. (a) Launch Terminal application and type the below command: sudo docker pull microsoft/mssql-server-linux:2017-latest (b) To run the container image with Docker, you can use the following command from a bash shell (Linux/macOS): 192-168-1-8:~ ashwi$ docker run -e 'ACCEPT_EULA=Y' -e 'MSSQL_SA_PASSWORD=xxxxxx' -e 'M...