November 26, 2016 at 1:16 pm
And I have to agree with Grant Fritchey...
It was boring.
Once I got the Linux spun up in a VM (Ubuntu 16.10 desktop), followed the steps on the MS page for installing and setting it to start automatically, it was done.
I could connect my SSMS to it from my windows desktop right off, everything seems to work the way one would expect. Obviously, being a quick and dirty first run, it's only doing SQL Authentication (need to get the VM joined to my AD,) I've not yet tried copying and restoring a backup of a SQL DB to it yet, but it was short, quick, and simple.
Frankly, it took longer to install the Linux VM than it did to install SQL...
November 28, 2016 at 2:23 am
The SQL database engine is incredibly quick to install yes, but I'm not going to really complain about that. Considering that when installing SQl Server on Windows it can take a good 20-30 minutes, plus restarts. Yes, i know you you're probably installing SQL Server, SSRS, SSAS, SSIS, etc, but still, I was very happy that I had SQL Server up and running in the space of about 2/3 minutes.
Thom~
Excuse my typos and sometimes awful grammar. My fingers work faster than my brain does.
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