Benjamin Nevarez - Microsoft SQL Server 2017 on Linux

Benjamin Nevarez is a database professional based in Los Angeles, California, who specializes in SQL Server query tuning and optimization. He is the author of three books, High Performance SQL Server (Apress, 2016), Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Query Tuning & Optimization (McGraw-Hill Education, 2014), and Inside the SQL Server Query Optimizer (Simple Talk Publishing, 2010) and has coauthored other books, including SQL Server 2012 Internals (Microsoft Press, 2013). Benjamin has also been a speaker at many SQL Server conferences and events around the world, including the PASS Summit, SQL Server Connections, and SQLBits. He writes a blog about SQL Server at .

Mark Broadbent is a Microsoft Certified Master in SQL Server and Microsoft Data Platform MVP with more than 30 years of IT experience and more than 20 years experience working with Microsoft SQL Server. He is an expert in concurrency control, migration and upgrade, and high availability (and disaster recovery) and a lover of Linux, Golang, Serverless, and Docker. In between herding cats and rustling dogs, he can be found blogging at .

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This book is dedicated to the memory of my father, Humberto Nevarez.

I started working with SQL Server more than 30 years ago, when it was a Sybase product that ran on Unix (as well as on more than half a dozen other operating systems), and we did all our work on Unix machines. SQL Server didnt run on Windows at that time, because there was no Windows operating system. But several years later, when Sybase partnered with Microsoft to port its database product onto PC-based operating systems, few people could foresee just how powerful and ubiquitous these PCs would become. PC is hardly about only personal computers these days.

Ive seen a lot of changes with SQL Server over these three decades, and some of the most interesting ones for me are when the product seems to circle back and add features or internal behaviors that were originally part of the product but had once been discarded. Some of the original ideas were not that far off base after all. Having SQL Server return to its roots and become available on Linux (a Unix-based OS) in SQL Server 2017 almost seems like coming home.

Benjamin Nevarez has been working with Unix-based operating systems almost as long as Ive been working with SQL Server. He was also excited to see SQL Server make an appearance on Linux. It didnt take him long to decide to get his hands dirty and figure out how SQL Server professionals could get the maximum value out of the new OS. He wrote this book to make available to others all that he had learned.

I have known Ben for more than a dozen years, since he first started finding typos and other errors in my SQL Server 2005 books. We started a dialog, and I then asked him if he was interested in being a technical editor for some of my work. Through this technical collaboration, I have learned that when Ben sets out to learn something, he does it thoroughly. His attention to detail and passion for complete answers never cease to amaze me.

In this book, Ben tells you how to get started using SQL Server on Linux and how the database system actually works on the new platform. does just that, to make the transition easier for people who have many years, if not decades, of experience with Windows. Of course, if youre already proficient with Linux, but new to SQL Server, you can focus on the following chapters when Bens expertise with SQL Server shines through.