Chad Baldwin has a container in search of a database:
Yesterday, I was watching a Pluralsight course which provided a database
.bakfile to follow along with the examples. I generally like to use Docker when working with SQL Server locally…but as a somewhat novice user, I have found it to be a bit of a pain if you need to deal with restoring or attaching a database.When I run into these scenarios, I usually spin up an AWS EC2 instance, install SQL server, and work with it that way. There’s probably a simpler way to do it using RDS or Azure, but I’m not familiar with those just yet. The other option is if I have a Linux machine at hand, I will use that with Docker and mapped volumes work great.
I do happen to have a Linux machine ready to use…but I was determined to figure out how to get this working on Windows.
Bonus points for using RESTORE DATABASE syntax. Every SQL Server user should know how to back up and restore a database using only T-SQL. That’s a skill which will definitely pay dividends.