In my posts about using Azure Devops to build Azure resources with Terraform, I built a Linux SQL VM. I used the Terrafrom in this GitHub repository and created this

Connecting with MobaXterm

I had set the Network security rules to accept connections only from my static IP using variables in the Build Pipeline. I use MobaXterm as my SSH client. Its a free download. I click on sessions

Choose a SSH session and fill in the remote host address from the portal

fill in the password and

Configuring SQL

The next task is to configure the SQL installation. Following the instructions on the Microsoft docs site I run

sudo systemctl stop mssql-server
sudo /opt/mssql/bin/mssql-conf set-sa-password

enter the sa password and

Now to start SQL

sudo systemctl start mssql-server

Installing pwsh

Installing PowerShell Core (pwsh) is easy with snap

sudo snap install powershell --classic

A couple of minutes of downloads and install

and pwsh is ready for use

Installing dbatools

To install dbatools from the Powershell Gallery simply run

Install-Module dbatools -Scope CurrentUser

This will prompt you to allow installing from an untrusted repository

and dbatools is ready to go

#Set a credential
$cred = Get-Credential
# Show the databases on the local instance
Get-DbaDatabase -SqlInstance localhost -SqlCredential $cred

Connecting with Azure Data Studio

I can also connect with Azure Data Studio

and connect

Just a quick little post explaining what I did 🙂

Happy Linuxing!