How to open and edit mdf sql server database files on linux

linux, mdf, sql-server

Solution

As of December 2016, there is a SQL Server version for Linux. The recommended approach would be to run SQL Server from the official Docker image:

- https://hub.docker.com/r/microsoft/mssql-server-linux/

- https://hub.docker.com/r/microsoft/mssql-tools/

Then it would be as simple as running SQL scripts against your database. There even exists a VS Code plugin for managing your databases: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-mssql.

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