This post was authored by Tara Raj and Vinson Yu, Program Managers – SQL Server Team We are excited to announce the public preview availability of two new command line tools for SQL Server: The ...

A NodeJS-based SQL command line interface which is just what you need when you don't want to install an SQL client locally. This package lets you connect to any SQL server* and execute queries. Query ...

When trying to connect to SQL Server running in a Docker container in WSL I am unable to connect using localhost as the server name. I can, however, connect using 127.0.0.1 or ::1. The application is ...

Finally, restart the SQL Server service: sudo systemctl start mssql-server You’ve just provisioned a SQL Server 2017 virtual machine in Azure! You can connect to it locally with sqlcmd to run Transact ...

SQL Server 2005's Management Studio offers lots of new functionality, but you can't always use a GUI. Sometimes you need to run a script from the command line, especially for an upgrade or install ...