Installing SQL SERVER on Fedora 23

Here are my notes on installation of MSSQL SERVER on Fedora.

First become root

    # su -

Microsoft sql server on fedora requires two new YUM repository one for actual sql server and other for command line tool to query it.

Add Microsoft Software repository to your Fedoara Machine as follows

   #curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/rhel/7/mssql-server.repo > /etc/yum.repos.d/mssql-server.repo

   #curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/rhel/7/prod.repo > /etc/yum.repos.d/msprod.repo

this will basically create two files in /etc/yum.repos.d/ folder namely “mssql-server.repo” & “msprod.repo”

Installing SQL Server :

   to install sql server issue following command

         #yum install -y mssql-server

this will install package yet we need to configure it by issuing following command

       #/opt/mssql/bin/sqlservr-setup

this will ask for System Administrator (SA) account password which requires two be 8 character,also ask if you want to start sql server at time of startup.

You can check if server is running by issuing following command

    #systemctl status mssql-server

output of this command in my case is

● mssql-server.service - Microsoft(R) SQL Server(R) Database Engine

Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mssql-server.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)

Active: active (running) since Sun 2016-12-04 20:04:11 IST; 27min ago

Main PID: 6431 (sqlservr)

Tasks: 144

Memory: 547.2M

CPU: 45.053s

CGroup: /system.slice/mssql-server.service

├─6431 /opt/mssql/bin/sqlservr

└─6493 /opt/mssql/bin/sqlservr

Dec 04 20:04:19 SangramOnFedora23 sqlservr[6431]: [145B blob data]

Dec 04 20:04:20 SangramOnFedora23 sqlservr[6431]: [66B blob data]

Dec 04 20:04:20 SangramOnFedora23 sqlservr[6431]: [75B blob data]

Dec 04 20:04:20 SangramOnFedora23 sqlservr[6431]: [96B blob data]

Dec 04 20:04:20 SangramOnFedora23 sqlservr[6431]: [100B blob data]

Dec 04 20:04:20 SangramOnFedora23 sqlservr[6431]: [71B blob data]

Dec 04 20:04:20 SangramOnFedora23 sqlservr[6431]: [124B blob data]

Dec 04 20:09:22 SangramOnFedora23 sqlservr[6431]: [71B blob data]

Dec 04 20:11:04 SangramOnFedora23 sqlservr[6431]: [156B blob data]

Dec 04 20:11:04 SangramOnFedora23 sqlservr[6431]: [193B blob data]

Microsoft SQL server runs on port 1433 we need to open it for commutation with server from outside of localhost.

If you firewall is running & blocking 1433 port then add exception to it

        # firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=1433/tcp --permanent

       # firewall-cmd --reload

If we have sql server up & running we can install tool to connect to it

    #yum install mssql-tools

This package needs “msodbcsql” package and it has dependency on “unixODBC” package.

In my case version of “ unixODBC” is higher than what “msodbcsql” can handle probably in with GAMBAS so I was getting error in installation of “mssql-tools”

after quick googling I got a solution what we need is remove existing unixodbc package as follows

#yum remove unixODBC

then we need to add new repo & import corresponding keys

#yum-config-manager --add-repo https://apt-mo.trafficmanager.net/yumrepos/mssql-rhel7-release/
#yum-config-manager --enable mssql-rhel7-release
#wget "http://aka.ms/msodbcrhelpublickey/dpgswdist.v1.asc"
#rpm --import dpgswdist.v1.asc

and then install “msodbcsql”

#yum install msodbcsql

after successful installation try to install “mssql-tools”




#yum install mssql-tools

On success we will check how to connect to server from command line.
Run below command,do not forgot to replace SA account password with your sql server’s SA password.

#sqlcmd -S localhost -U SA -P 'SA_Account_PASSWORD'

we will run simple command to check if we are through.First type some sql command say 

select name from sys.databases;

hit enter and then type “go”  do not end it with semicolon and hit again to see result of sql query.

Output should be similar to below:

name                                                                                                                            
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
master                                                                                                                          
tempdb                                                                                                                          
model                                                                                                                           
msdb 

to come out of sql-cmd command prompt need to use "quit" command.

We can use universal sql GUI tools like squirrel sql , dbeaver to connect to our newly installed 

sql server. Though  I got some success with squirrel sql but it was messed between Oracle JAVA & OPEN JAVA 

when I tried it on Ubuntu 16.We will explore this soon.

Attach MDF & LDF to create new Database (LINUX):

Login to SQL Server as

sqlcmd -S localhost -U SA -P 'yourPassword' 

CREATE DATABASE cart ON (NAME = 'cart', FILENAME = '/home/sangram/workspace/dotnet/cart/cart.mdf' , 

SIZE = 2048KB , MAXSIZE = UNLIMITED, FILEGROWTH = 1024KB ) LOG ON (NAME = 'cart_log', 

FILENAME = '/home/sangram/workspace/dotnet/cart/cart_log.ldf' , SIZE = 1024KB , MAXSIZE = 2048GB , FILEGROWTH = 10%)
FOR ATTACH; 

GO:

You can see your cart database is attached.

References:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/sql-server-linux-setup-red-hat

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh568454(v=sql.110).aspx