{"id":20495,"date":"2017-05-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/dataplatforminsider\/?p=20495"},"modified":"2024-01-22T22:50:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T06:50:59","slug":"sql-server-2017-ctp-2-1-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sql-server\/blog\/2017\/05\/17\/sql-server-2017-ctp-2-1-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"SQL Server 2017 CTP 2.1 now available"},"content":{"rendered":"
Microsoft is excited to announce a new preview for the next version of SQL Server (SQL Server 2017). Community Technology Preview (CTP) 2.1 is available on both Windows and Linux. In this preview, we added manageability features to make it easier to configure SQL Server in Docker containers. We\u2019re also introducing some new command line tools for managing SQL Server in our GitHub repo. And, there\u2019s a preview of SQL Server Integration Services on Linux to try! You can try the SQL Server 2017 preview in your choice of development and test environments now: www.microsoft.com\/sqlserver2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n The primary enhancement to SQL Server 2017 in this release is the ability to configure SQL Server configuration settings through environment variables passed in as parameters to docker run<\/strong>.\u00a0This enables many of the SQL Server configuration scenarios in Docker containers such as setting the collation.<\/p>\n For additional detail on CTP 2.1, please visit What\u2019s New in SQL Server 2017<\/a>, Release Notes<\/a> and Linux documentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n SQL Server Integration Services now supports Linux for the first time! Today we are also releasing a preview of SQL Server Integration Services for Ubuntu. The preview enables you to run SSIS packages on the Linux OS, extract data from and load it to most common sources and targets, and perform common transformations. It has a simple command line installation. For more information, see our SSIS blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n The <\/strong>latest release of SQL Server Management Studio<\/a> is out! It features improvements to how it works with SQL Server on Linux so make sure you have the latest.<\/strong> In addition, we are excited to announce the public preview availability of two new command line tools for SQL Server:<\/p>\n In CTP 2.1, we moved Reporting Services installation from the SQL Server installer to a separate installer. This is a packaging change, not a product change; access to SQL Server Reporting Services is still included with your SQL Server license. The new installation process keeps our packages lean and enables customers to deploy and update Reporting Services with zero impact on your SQL Server deployments and databases.<\/p>\n To learn more about what\u2019s new in SQL Server 2017 Reporting Services preview, read our\u00a0Reporting Services Release Notes<\/a>. To download the latest preview in the new lightweight installer, go to https:\/\/aka.ms\/ssrs2017download<\/a><\/p>\n To learn more about the recent announcement of a Power BI Report Server preview, which includes the capabilities of SQL Server 2017 Reporting Services and<\/em> support for Power BI reports, you can read this blog article<\/a>.<\/p>\n Try the preview of the SQL Server 2017 today! Get started with the preview of SQL Server with our updated developer tutorials<\/a> that show you how to install and use SQL Server 2017 on macOS, Docker, Windows, and Linux and quickly build an app in a programming language of your choice.<\/p>\n Have questions? Join the discussion of SQL Server 2017 at MSDN<\/a>. If you run into an issue or would like to make a suggestion, you can let us know through Connect<\/a>. We look forward to hearing from you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Microsoft is excited to announce a new preview for the next version of SQL Server (SQL Server 2017). Community Technology Preview (CTP) 2.1 is available on both Windows and Linux. In this preview, we added manageability features to make it easier to configure SQL Server in Docker containers. We\u2019re also introducing some new command line<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ms_queue_force_push":false,"ms_queue_id":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","_classifai_text_to_speech_error":"","footnotes":""},"post_tag":[],"product":[5227,2406,2409],"content-type":[2421],"topic":[2454,2475],"coauthors":[2487],"class_list":["post-20495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","product-sql","product-sql-server-2017","product-sql-server-2017-on-linux","content-type-announcements","topic-business-intelligence","topic-oltp-database-management","review-flag-1593580427-503","review-flag-1-1593580431-15","review-flag-2-1593580436-981","review-flag-8-1593580467-480","review-flag-new-1593580247-437","review-flag-publi-1593580761-761"],"yoast_head":"\nKey CTP 2.1 enhancements<\/h2>\n
SQL Server Integration Services on Linux<\/h2>\n
Updated SQL Server Tooling<\/h2>\n
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New lightweight installer for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)<\/h2>\n
Get SQL Server 2017 CTP 2.1 today!<\/h2>\n
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