pachoo/mssql-server-windows-developer repository overview

⁠About the image

Inofficial image for Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Developer on Windows Server for Docker Engine. The following custom features are supported:

• Server-level collation set to SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS,
• Variable ACCEPT_EULA defaults to 'Y',
• Default database files location is C:\MSSQL.

⁠Featured Tags

• ltsc2022-servercore
  docker pull pachoo/mssql-server-windows-developer:ltsc2022-servercore

• ltsc2022
  docker pull pachoo/mssql-server-windows-developer:ltsc2022

• 1809-servercore
  docker pull pachoo/mssql-server-windows-developer:1809-servercore

• 1809
  docker pull pachoo/mssql-server-windows-developer:1809

⁠Environment Variables

• ACCEPT_EULA confirms your acceptance of the End-User Licensing Agreement⁠,
• SA_PASSWORD is the database system administrator (userid = 'sa') password used to connect to SQL Server once the container is running. Important note: This password needs to include at least 8 characters of at least three of these four categories: uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers and non-alphanumeric symbols.

⁠Example usage

Start SQL Server instance with randomly generated name:
docker run -d -p 1433:1433 -e "SA_PASSWORD=yourStrong(!)Password" -e "ACCEPT_EULA=Y" pachoo/mssql-server-windows-developer:1809

Start SQL Server instance with the given name and defined restart policy:
docker run -d -p 1433:1433 --name name --restart unless-stopped -e SA_PASSWORD="yourStrong(!)Password" pachoo/mssql-server-windows-developer:ltsc2022

⁠Related Repository

SQL Server 2017 Developer for Windows Container: mssql-server-windows-developer⁠.

⁠License

By passing the value "Y" to the environment variable "ACCEPT_EULA", you are expressing that you have a valid and existing license for the edition and version of SQL Server that you intend to use. You also agree that your use of SQL Server software running in a Docker container image will be governed by the terms of your SQL Server license.

SQL Server Developer edition lets developers build any kind of application on top of SQL Server. It includes all the functionality of Enterprise edition, but is licensed for use as a development and test system, not as a production server. SQL Server Developer Edition cannot be used in a production environment.