如何在 ubuntu 16.04 中为 mssql 实例启用 TCP/IP？

Question

I'm not able to connect SQL Server hosted in Ubuntu 16.04 using my program, I believe its because the TCP/IP is disabled for the instance I try to connect (Protocols for SQLEXPRESS under SQL Server network configuration).

How I'm sure because I tried to connect my program to SQL Server that hosted in Windows and it able to connect.

Example my instance name is SQLEXPRESS, so I'm trying to connect through SSMS by using IP Adress\\SQLEXPRESS and it fails. But I am able to connect to the SQL if I use IP address only as the server name.

I tried to search about sqlcmd for enable the tcp/ip but all of them just show the guide to change the ports.

So, how can I enable tcp/ip connection for ip\\SQLEXPRESS instance in Ubuntu 16.04?

picture below just an example on enabling tcp/ip for the sql instance in windows

Answer 1

I believe the reason why this doesn't work on linux is because it doesn't have a SQL Server Browser application that Windows has available. This application redirects the requests to 1433 to whatever random port it's listening to currently -- this is why it will only connect when the port is specified. In my case this stinks because I'm having to work around an ancient application that we don't have the source code for. I'm thinking about writing a little application that will redirect the default traffic to the correct port for linux msssql.