Installing MS SQL Server 2019 on Parrot OS
Introduction Parrot OS is a light Linux distribution based on Debian. Microsoft SQL Server or SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS) developed by Microsoft. Starting with SQL Server 2017, Microsoft added Linux support and thus making any newer versions cross platform. This post steps through the process of SQL Server 2019 Developer edition installation on Parrot OS and contains the following topics: downloading and configuring MS SQL Server 2019 package repository running the SQL Server setup process installation of SQL Server command line tools installation Azure Data Studio running queries in Azure Data Studio The commands used in this post will also work on any Debian based distribution like Ubuntu, MX Linux, Linux Mint, Knoppix among many others.