In tonight’s PowerScripting Podcast, I shared a few things about SQL Server on Linux, and talked a bit about SQLPS. All after a lengthy intro about my tech life and Cajun culture ;) You can watch the whole thing, skip to 28 minutes to the podcast intro, or skip to around 59 minutes for the SQL/Linux/SQLPS portion.

Or you can just read below. This information came from a member within the SQL Server team and has been shared with permission.

Microsoft says…

Current state of SMO support: SMO running on a Windows computer can be used to connect to and work with SQL Server running anywhere (including on Linux).

Users can use SQL Server Management Studio (and Visual Studio/SQL Server Data tools) running on Windows to connect to and work with SQL Server running anywhere (including on Linux).

Users can use third party tools (e.g. Eclipse, MyLittleAdmin, sqlsh, sql-cli, etc.) that use our connectivity drivers (e.g. JDBC, PHP, ODBC, Node.js, ADO.NET, etc.) to connect to and work with SQL Server running anywhere (including on Linux).

Microsoft is investigating whether it makes sense to port SMO over to corefx on Linux and/or offer a set of non-.NET APIs (e.g. Node.js, Python, etc.) for users to programmatically manage SQL Server from Linux.

Microsoft is investigating porting sqlpackage.exe and the DacFX APIs to corefx on Linux.

Microsoft is investigating options for a cross-platform lightweight SQL Management Studio GUI tool for Linux.

Microsoft is investigating open sourcing the SQL Server PowerShell provider and cmdlets, and that it “makes a lot of sense” and “aligns with what Microsoft has already done with our Azure PowerShell cmdlets on github.” This is being tracked by connect item 2442788.

Microsoft doesn’t have dates or more details to share for any of these items at this time and will keep the community updated on their progress as they continue to evaluate our plans based on customer feedback

So let’s give them the feedback they are looking for! If you haven’t voted already, upvote these four key Connect items if you are so inclined: