Reason: login failed for user 'sa'. Please verify SQL Server is running and check your SQL Server Registration properties (by right-clicking on the SERVER1 node) and try again.</pre> ...

But this is wrong because it will not set the password for SA It took me hours to discover the environment variable actually used to set the SA password is 'MSSQL_SA_PASSWORD' ...

With SQL Server 2017, and now SQL Server 2019, SQL Server is available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and Ubuntu. For our purposes, I’m going to walk through how to use the ...