SQL Server 2017

2017 (14.x) on Linux

This article describes the major features and services available for SQL Server 2017 (14.x) running

on Linux.

In addition to these capabilities in this article, cumulative updates (CUs) are released at regular

intervals. These cumulative updates provide many improvements and fixes. For detailed

information about the latest CU release, see

2017 build versions. For package

downloads and known issues, see the

Release notes.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 is supported in SQL Server 2017 (14.x) CU 20 and later versions.

For more information, see

Quickstart: Install SQL Server and create a database on Red Hat.

Ubuntu 18.04 is supported in SQL Server 2017 (14.x) CU 20 and later versions. For more

information, see

Quickstart: Install SQL Server and create a database on Ubuntu.

Enabled the core SQL Server Database Engine capabilities.

Support for native Linux paths.

IPv6 support.

Support for database files on Network File System (NFS).

Enabled

Transport Layer Security

(TLS) encryption.

Enabled

Active Directory Authentication.

Availability Groups functionality

for high availability.

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support.

Enabled

Agent

support for the following tasks:

Transact-SQL jobs

DB mail

Database Engine

Agent