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Marek Chmel
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Marek Chmel

Marek Chmel is a senior CSA at Microsoft, specializing in data and AI. He is a speaker and trainer with more than 15 years' experience. He has been a Data Platform MVP since 2012. He has earned numerous certifications, including Azure Architect, Data Engineer and Scientist Associate, Certified Ethical Hacker, and several eLearnSecurity certifications. Marek earned his master's degree in business and informatics from Nottingham Trent University. He started his career as a trainer for Microsoft Server courses and later worked as SharePoint team lead and principal database administrator. He has authored two books, Hands-On Data Science with SQL Server 2017 and SQL Server 2017 Administrator's Guide.
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Vladimír Mužný
Vladimír Mužný
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Vladimír Mužný

Vladimír Mužný has been a freelance developer and consultant since 1997. He has been a Data Platform MVP since 2017, and he has earned certifications such as MCSE: Data Management and Analytics and MCT. His first steps with SQL Server were done on version 6.5, and from that time on, he has worked with all following versions of SQL Server. Now Vladimir teaches Microsoft database courses, participates in SQL Server adoption at various companies, and collaborates on projects for production tracking and migrations.
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Installing SQL Server 2019 on containers

Virtualization of computers hosting SQL Server is very common nowadays. Containers provide the next level of virtualization. A container itself is a lightweight computer hosted by the container environment. The question is: why use containers over virtual machines? Containers provide a simple way to prepare the environment that is often destroyed or moved between hosts. It is useful, for instance, during the development phase, when developers need to refresh their server environment frequently.

The basis of containers adopted by Microsoft lies on a Linux-based technology called Docker. It's also a prerequisite when we'd like to try provisioning. We need to have Docker Engine 1.8 or higher installed on our Linux computer, or we can install Docker for Windows as well.

Note

Installing Docker for Windows needs the Hyper-V feature of Windows installed, because Docker itself is then running on the Linux VM.

The provisioning of...

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Authors (2)

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Marek Chmel

Marek Chmel is a senior CSA at Microsoft, specializing in data and AI. He is a speaker and trainer with more than 15 years' experience. He has been a Data Platform MVP since 2012. He has earned numerous certifications, including Azure Architect, Data Engineer and Scientist Associate, Certified Ethical Hacker, and several eLearnSecurity certifications. Marek earned his master's degree in business and informatics from Nottingham Trent University. He started his career as a trainer for Microsoft Server courses and later worked as SharePoint team lead and principal database administrator. He has authored two books, Hands-On Data Science with SQL Server 2017 and SQL Server 2017 Administrator's Guide.
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Vladimír Mužný

Vladimír Mužný has been a freelance developer and consultant since 1997. He has been a Data Platform MVP since 2017, and he has earned certifications such as MCSE: Data Management and Analytics and MCT. His first steps with SQL Server were done on version 6.5, and from that time on, he has worked with all following versions of SQL Server. Now Vladimir teaches Microsoft database courses, participates in SQL Server adoption at various companies, and collaborates on projects for production tracking and migrations.
Read more about Vladimír Mužný