Setup Microsoft SQL Server on Ubuntu 20.04

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Update Ubuntu

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo reboot

Import Microsoft public repository GPG key for Ubuntu

sudo wget -qO- https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | sudo apt-key add -

Register the Microsoft SQL Server Ubuntu repository for SQL Server 2019

sudo add-apt-repository "$(wget -qO- https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/20.04/mssql-server-2019.list)"

Install SQL Server

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y mssql-server

Configure SQL server and set SA password

sudo /opt/mssql/bin/mssql-conf setup

Check SQL service is running

systemctl status mssql-server --no-pager

Check the listening port for MSSQL server

sudo apt install net-tools
sudo netstat -tnlp | grep sqlservr

Open up the firewall port 1433 to connect remotely

Allow ssh and enable firewall

sudo ufw allow 22
sudo ufw allow 1433
sudo ufw allow 1434
sudo ufw enable

Install SQL Server command-line tools

Import the public repository GPG keys.

curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | sudo apt-key add -

Register the Microsoft Ubuntu repository

curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/20.04/prod.list | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/msprod.list

Install tools and ODBC drivers

sudo apt update 
sudo apt install -y mssql-tools unixodbc-dev

Add tools folder to PATH environment variable in a bash shell.

echo 'export PATH="$PATH:/opt/mssql-tools/bin"' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'export PATH="$PATH:/opt/mssql-tools/bin"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

Connect to your server

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

If successful, you should get a command prompt: 1>.

Attaching existing SQL Server Database

Copy yourdbname.mdf and yourdbname_log.ldf to the /var/opt/mssql/data/ directory. Set the owner and permissions to mssql.

sudo cp yourdbname* /var/opt/mssql/data/
sudo su
Chown mssql:mssql /var/opt/mssql/data/yourdbname*
chmod u=+rw,g=+rw,o=-rw  /var/opt/mssql/data/yourdbname*

Run sql on the master

USE master;

CREATE DATABASE yourdbname 
ON PRIMARY (FILENAME = '/var/opt/mssql/data/yourdbname.mdf'),
   (FILENAME = '/var/opt/mssql/data/yourdbname_log.ldf') 
FOR ATTACH

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