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mssql-cli is a command line query tool for MS SQL Server. It runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

For more general information and detailed installation instructions see Microsoft Docs / SQL / Tools / Command prompt utilities / mssql-cli.

For macOS and Windows platforms you can generally install using pip.

$ pip install mssql-cli

On AWS/CentOS /RHEL flavored systems use sudo to first install python-pip, then use pip.

sudo yum install -y python-pip
sudo pip install mssql-cli

For Ubuntu flavor Linux, use apt-get:

# Import the public repository GPG keys
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | sudo apt-key add -

# Register the Microsoft Ubuntu repository
sudo apt-add-repository https://packages.microsoft.com/ubuntu/18.04/prod

# Update the list of products
sudo apt-get update

# Install mssql-cli
sudo apt-get install mssql-cli

# Install missing dependencies
sudo apt-get install -f