This month I’ll be speaking to the PowerShell Virtual Chapter of PASS. The session is on Linux OS Fundamentals for the SQL Admin. At the core of the session we will introduce you to OS concepts like managing files and file systems, installation packages, using PowerShell on Linux, managing system services, commands and processes and system resource management. This session is intended for those who have never seen or have very little exposure to Linux but are seasoned Windows or SQL administrators.
My new course “LFCE: Advanced Network and System Administration” in now available on Pluralsight here! If you want to learn about the course, check out the trailer here or if you want to dive right in check it out here! This course targets IT professionals that design and maintain RHEL/CentOS based enterprises. It aligns with the Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS) and Linux Foundation Certified Engineer (LFCE) and also Redhat’s RHCSA and RHCE certifications.
OK, so everyone wants to know how Microsoft did it…how they got SQL Server running on Linux. In this article, I’m going to try to figure out how.
Update: Since the publication of this post, Microsoft has published a blog post detailing the implementation here. There’s a couple of approaches they could take…a direct port or some abstraction layer…A direct port would have been hard, basically any OS interaction would have had to been looked at and that would have been time consuming and risk prone.
In this post we’re going set PowerShell as your default Linux shell.
What is a shell? In Linux systems you’re given options, tons of options, you can set, reconfigure, add/remove almost anything that you want. And one of those options is your shell. The shell is the thing that you interact with when you’re typing commands at the command line. Different shells have different behaviors and characteristics. It’s a very personal choice.
Getting PowerShell on Linux Well it’s not just an announcement, you can actually get PowerShell on Linux and MacOS right now from GitHub – here!
Installing PowerShell Once you’ve downloaded an installation file you can use RPM or apt to install the package. If you’re on a Mac…well just double click on the package!
yum install powershell-6.0.0_alpha.9-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm
If you’re on Ubuntu, you’ll need a little more stuff read this. Running PowerShell We’ll there’s really not much to that, just type powershell at the command prompt an you’re off and running!
My new course “LFCE: Advanced Linux Networking” in now available on Pluralsight here!
This course targets IT professionals that design and maintain RHEL based enterprises. It aligns with the Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS) and Linux Foundation Certified Engineer (LFCE) and also Redhat’s RHCSA and RHCE certifications The course can be used by both the IT pro learning new skills and the senior system administrator preparing for the certification exam
The developments over the last few months in the data community had brought us to an interesting place. We’re going to have SQL on Linux and now we also have .NET on Linux too! While the implications of this are unclear, and worthy of significant prognostication…I’m going to take this time to show you how to get started with .NET Core on a Redhat Enterprise Linux Based System.
First up you’re going to need Redhat Enterprise Linux.
I’m pleased to announce that I’m working on a new course for Pluralsight.
The course is titled LFCE: Advanced Linux Networking.
This course targets IT professionals that design and maintain Linux based enterprises. It aligns with the Linux Foundation Certified Engineer (LFCE) objectives and can be used by both the IT pro learning new skills and the senior system administrator preparing for the certification exam. This course will dive deeper into the internals of networking, giving the viewer insight into how things work under the hood in Linux based networks.
My new course “Understanding and Using Essential Tools in Enterprise Linux 7” in now available on Pluralsight here!
This course targets IT professionals that design and maintain RHEL based enterprises. It aligns with RHCSA and RHCE objectives and can be used by both the IT pro learning new skills and the senior system administrator preparing for the certification exam
Let’s take your LINUX sysadmin skills to the next level and get you started on your RHCSA/RHCE learning path.
Well yesterday was a big day in the SQL Community, Microsoft announced that they will be developing a version of SQL Server for Linux. Check out the announcement here.
Image Source – Microsoft – http://bit.ly/1U8Afd3 This leaves us with a lot of questions, in talking with one of my customers this morning he asked some pretty cool questions. Here’s how the conversation went…
Do you think it’s going to be a replacement for MySQL/MariaDB?
