Using sqlcmd on Linux - wiltondb/wiltondb GitHub Wiki
sqlcmd is the official command-line utility for Microsoft SQL Server. It also can be used with WiltonDB.
Microsoft provides 2 versions of sqlcmd with almost identical functionality:
sqlcmdas part of SQL Server command-line tools- go-sqlcmd
The latter Golang version is open-source and has official portable binaries for Linux, it can be used the following way:
$ curl -LO https://github.com/microsoft/go-sqlcmd/releases/download/v1.4.0/sqlcmd-v1.4.0-linux-amd64.tar.bz2
$ tar xjvf sqlcmd-v1.4.0-linux-amd64.tar.bz2
$ ./sqlcmd -S 127.0.0.1,1433 -U wilton -P wilton
1> select @@version
2> go
version
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Babelfish for PostgreSQL with SQL Server Compatibility - 12.0.2000.8
Oct 22 2023 17:48:32
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PostgreSQL 15.4 (EL 1:15.4.wiltondb3.3_2-2.el8) on x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (Babelfish 3.3.0)
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