How to Install SQL Server 2022 on Ubuntu 22.10

In this article, I will show you how to install Microsoft SQL Server 2022 on Ubuntu 22.10. SQL Server is a powerful database that can be used to store spatial data. Microsoft SQL Server 2022 does not support Ubuntu 22.10 natively. So, we need to install it via Docker. Docker is an easy way to deploy applications such as SQL Server. The following step-by-step guide will involve some basic Terminal commands. In this example, I am using Ubuntu 22.10 Server edition installed on VMware ESXi 8.0.

Steps to Install SQL Server 2022 on Ubuntu 22.10

Step 1. Install Docker on Ubuntu 22.10

To install Docker on Ubuntu 22.10, we need to add the Docker repository first. Use this command on Terminal. This command will install some dependency files required by Docker to run properly.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install \
    ca-certificates \
    curl \
    gnupg \
    lsb-release

Add repository

sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
echo \
  "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
  $(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null

Install Docker

sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-compose-plugin

During the installation, you may get the following warning. Just press OK and then reboot the Ubuntu server.

Upon reboot, you may start, restart and enable Docker upon startup with the following command

sudo service docker start
sudo service docker restart
sudo service docker enable
sudo service docker status

Make sure the Docker service is up and running

At this point, we have successfully installed Docker on Ubuntu 22.10. Now we can continue to the next step.

Step 2. Run Microsoft SQL Server 2022 Container

To run the MS SQL Server 2022 Docker container, first, we need to download the SQL Server Docker image

sudo docker pull mcr.microsoft.com/mssql/server:2022-latest

Now we have the SQL Server images. Check with this command to make sure

sudo docker images

Now run this command to start a new SQL Server docker container

sudo docker run -e "ACCEPT_EULA=Y" -e "MSSQL_SA_PASSWORD=P@ssword1234" \
   -p 1433:1433 --name sqlserver1 --hostname sqlserver1 \
   -d \
   mcr.microsoft.com/mssql/server:2022-latest

Parameter:

MSSQL_SA_PASSWORD: Change the value to your own “sa” password. You need a complex password combination for the “sa” user.

–name: This is the name of our new container. Change this to something that is easy to differentiate from other containers.

–hostname: The hostname of our new SQL Server container

Once you run the command, now check if the SQL Server container is up and running.

sudo docker ps

Done. At this point, we have successfully installed the Microsoft SQL Server 2022 on Ubuntu 22.10 using Docker. Below are some important Docker commands that you might need.

Start/stop the SQL Server docker container (sqlserver1)

sudo docker stop sqlserver1
sudo docker start sqlserver1

Thanks for reading this how to install SQL Server 2022 on Ubuntu 22.10 using Docker. See you in the next tutorials.