Using Containers to Avoid Installing SQL Server


I got a new laptop recently and instead of installing SQL Server, I decided to try and use containers to see how well this works. This article looks at how I got this working relatively quickly.

The short list of things I did is:

Install Docker Desktop Create a location for data/logs/etc. Create a docker-compose file Create a few batch files Test

I did this as I was getting ready for a trip, and actually had most of this working in less than an hour. Step 3 took me a few