Dariusz Kacban

Probably you heard that Microsoft Sql Server can only run on Windows machines. Good news - This is not true anymore. You can easily install it on Linux machine too. In this article I show you 2 ways of installing Sql Server on Ubuntu 16 and demonstrate how to connect to the database from remote machine. OPTION 1: Slow way - Manual installation This is the most straightforward way of installing. You download packages and configure Sql Server interactively(you set password, port and choosing installation option - free or paid). This is the step by step instruction from microsoft https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/quickstart-install-connect-ubuntu OPTION 2: Fast way - Running on docker with just 2 pure-command-line commands. My assumption is that your Ubuntu machine has already docker installed. You can check if Docker is already installed by tunning the command: docker. If you don't have docker installed, no problem: before continuing below instruction just install