{"id":24414,"date":"2018-05-29T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sql-server\/blog\/?p=24414"},"modified":"2024-01-22T22:51:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T06:51:17","slug":"sql-server-at-the-red-hat-summit-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sql-server\/blog\/2018\/05\/29\/sql-server-at-the-red-hat-summit-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"SQL Server at the Red Hat Summit 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

This blog post is also authored by Travis Wright, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft; and Jamie Reding, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft.<\/em><\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, developers from around the world gathered for the Microsoft Build Conference. It was an amazing display of Microsoft\u2019s products and cloud services to meet the needs of all types of applications. I missed the \/\/build event this year because I found myself in San Francisco at the Red Hat Summit 2018. I can\u2019t even imagine five years ago someone telling me I would represent Microsoft and SQL Server at an open-source based event.<\/p>\n

Travis Wright, Jamie Reding, and I travelled to the event to speak and show amazing demos of SQL Server running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and OpenShift. We were part of the Microsoft team attending the event to continue to show the great partnership we have and are building with Red Hat. Get an overview of the Microsoft presence at the summit from Robin Ginn\u2019s blog post.<\/a><\/p>\n

This was not the first time for Travis or Jamie attending this event. Microsoft demonstrated SQL Server on Linux at the Red Hat Summit 2016. Travis and Jamie both presented at the 2017 Summit for SQL Server on RHEL and Open Shift. I thought it would be interesting to write about our experiences and what we learned at this year\u2019s Summit.<\/p>\n

The presentation Travis and I gave on SQL Server was rich with demos. We worked hard on these demos, so we thought why not show everyone, not just the people at the Summit. We have packaged them all on the brand-new SQL Server YouTube channel<\/a>. I\u2019ve included links to these videos throughout the rest of this blog post.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no longer \u201cWhy are you here?\u201d<\/h2>\n

As the event ended, I asked Jamie and Travis what was one of the key differences between previous Summit events and this year. Travis summarized it as \u201cCustomers at the booth have switched from asking us Why are you here? and What is SQL Server? two years ago to specific questions about running SQL Server on RHEL\/OpenShift.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The most common question we received was \u201cHow do you install it?\u201d I think I must have demonstrated at our booth 20 or more times the SQL Server deployment experience, along with the great set of tools we have available for SQL Server on Linux including SQL Server Operations Studio and mssql-cli. Check out this video that shows the complete deployment experience on RHEL as well as a survey of our tools. Cross-platform and open-source tools is how we roll these days!<\/p>\n