update official Mssql Tools Linux Docker image (over 2 years old)

[Herr-Sepp]

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

The"latest" image has sqlcmd version 13.1 inside and is over 2 years old. This image will not be updatet if a new version of sqlcmd is released.

The current version shoud be 17.4.1.1 if i am correct: https://packages.microsoft.com/ubuntu/16.04/prod/pool/main/m/mssql-tools/

please update this image and it would be great if you can provide a image with a newer Ubuntu base maybe 18.04 to reduce the image size. Baseimage 16.04 > 123 MB Baseimage 18.04 > 64,2 MB

And the Full Tag Listing link is broken: https://mcr.microsoft.com/v2/mssql/tools/tags/list

Thanks

[vin-yu]

We're going to update this very soon, and include some other cool stuff with it too.

• @yualan

[Herr-Sepp]

Any News on this?

[christianfosli]

It seems that the latest mssql-tools image is still sqlcmd version 13 and now over 4 years old. Any news?

[johannesboon]

Make that latest version 18 ;-) With a nice little improvement for bcp to enable encrypted connections, according to: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/odbc/linux-mac/connecting-with-bcp?view=sql-server-ver16

I guess I'll build my own container image and install the mssql-tools packages from: https://packages.microsoft.com/rhel/7.3/prod/ or something similar for Ubuntu etc.

If you are not keeping the docker image up to date, please document this and/or remove it.

[tracker1]

For those following, there seems to be a lot of movement on a newer go based sqlcmd, not sure if future containers will be based on this, or not... but worth taking a look and grabbing if you want something to build a newer container from.

https://github.com/microsoft/go-sqlcmd