How to install Ms Sql Server vNext on Debian 8 Jessie

better_linux_boxMicrosoft surprised the IT world with the announcement about the new MS SQL Server that is able to run on Linux. In this post I’ll show hot to install Sql Server on Debian 8 Jessie.

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install curl apt-transport-https sudo 

Add to /etc/apt/sources.list this backports

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main

After that you’ll be able to install jessie-backports openssl

apt-get install -t jessie-backports openssl

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Connect Php code in Linux to Ms Sql Server using Freetds

Using Freetds we can connect php code in Linux to Microsoft Sql Server.

We start from a fresh installation of Ubuntu 11.04.

# apt-get install dpkg-dev
# apt-get install apache2
# apt-get install php5
# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

To check that php5 works fine

# php -v
PHP 5.3.5-1ubuntu7.10 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Jun 19 2012 00:54:05)
Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies

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