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Deploying SQL Server on Linux

Deploying SQL Server on Linux

- [Instructor] After these fundamental and basic considerations, it is time for an actual installation. And that starts with a question, which version of SQL Server do you want to install? Microsoft is providing a central repository with all the installation files and of course this repo doesn't exclusively host SQL Server files, but also a bunch of other tools and products. There isn't just one single SQL Server to download, but they're filed for SQL Server 2017, which was the first SQL Server to support Linux, up to SQL Server 2022. And each of those versions has multiple versions to download from the original release up to all the cumulative updates. To make life a bit easier, the newest release will always be flagged as latest, so you can install the most recent CU without needing to know exactly which one that is. Okay, let's assume you are planning to install the latest CU of SQL Server 2019 on your Linux server. The installation itself will run through a package manager and…

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