Install SQL Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Step by Step Tutorial

Install SQL Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Step by Step Tutorial

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• You need at least 3.25GB of memory to run SQL Server on Linux. 

• To install the mssql-server package on RHEL, follow these steps:

• Enter superuser mode.

sudo su

• Download the Microsoft SQL Server Red Hat repository configuration file:

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

• Exit superuser mode.

exit

• Run the following commands to install SQL Server:

sudo yum install -y mssql-server

• After the package installation finishes, run the configuration script and follow the prompts. Make sure to specify a strong password for the SA account (Minimum length 8 characters, including uppercase and lowercase letters, base 10 digits and/or non-alphanumeric symbols).

sudo /opt/mssql/bin/sqlservr-setup

• Once the configuration is done, verify that the service is running:

systemctl status mssql-server