If you use ReSharper check your subscription level and see if it’s includes DataGrip. My preference is DataGrip because it works well and it’s included in my JetBrains subscription. You can’t install SQL Server Management Studio on a Mac but there other clients you can use.

Plus a GUI client would look better during the presentation. Now you can access SQL Server via the command line but I prefer a GUI client. Notice the port number and don’t forget to set the name so it’s easier to find your image. $ docker run -e 'ACCEPT_EULA=Y' -e 'SA_PASSWORD=Password1234!' -p 1433:1433 -name SQLServerForDemo -d microsoft/mssql-server-linux:latest $ docker pull microsoft/mssql-server-linux Next open up a terminal and pull down the SQL Server Docker image. Once installed you should see a whale in the status menus at the top right. I tried it an it worked.įirst install Docker for MacOS which you can find here.

Some Googling reviled that SQL Server can run on a Docker container and that Microsoft has a SQL Server Docker image. NET Core but what about SQL Server? I could use a different database but wanted to stick with SQL Server because it’s the database most of the SQL Saturday attendees are familiar with. I knew I could run the website part of my example on my Mac thanks to.

I didn’t want to borrow a laptop and setting up dual boot and installing Windows, Visual Studio, etc sounded like a lot of work. My options were procure a Windows laptop for the presentation, dual boot my existing laptop, or see if I could run my example natively on my Mac.

I’ll be doing some live coding and database querying and want a nice experience for the attendees. SQL Saturday 710 is on May 5th in Edmonton but there are SQL Saturdays, with different numbers at the end, all around the world on different dates.īack to my problem which was running my example on a Windows virtual machine running on my older MacBook Pro. I’ve upgraded my MacBook Pro over the years with more RAM and a SSD hard drive the virtual machine is still not responsive enough for my liking with SQL Server and Visual Studio running on it. SQL Saturday is an entire day of talks, training, and socializing about databases and data storage. My laptop is an older MacBook Pro and I was trying to run my example on a Windows virtual machine… Working on my code example for my upcoming SQL Saturday 710 talk I ran into a performance issue.

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