Install SQL Server directly to your Mac — no virtual machine required!
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Microsoft has made SQL Server available for macOS and Linux systems. This is made possible by running SQL Server from a Docker container. Therefore, there's no need to install a virtual machine with Windows (which was the only way to run SQL Server on a Mac prior to SQL Server 2017).
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This is a prerequisite for installing SQL Server on your Mac. Because the Mac runs SQL Server inside a Docker container, the first thing we need to do is download and install Docker (unless it's already installed). Once installed, we'll increase its memory allocation to a more suitable level for running SQL Server.
1 day ago Hi, for a class I’m taking I had to download SQL server on my laptop. Because I had a Mac, I had to first download Docker and then use docker pull requests on my terminal to download SQL. It downloaded the March 2017 version instead of the 2019 latest version, because the pull request statement should’ve been sudo docker pull mcr.microsoft.
If I've confused you, don't worry. I've written a tutorial with screenshots: Install Docker on a Mac and Configure for SQL Server.
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OK, we're now ready to install SQL Server on your Mac.
Now the Actual SQL Server Installation
Now that we've installed Docker and increased its memory allocation, we can go ahead and install SQL Server. The Mac uses the Linux image (the SQL Server for Linux Docker image).
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Now that you've installed SQL Server on your Mac, you'll probably want to check that you can access it and query it, etc. Then you'll probably want to start creating databases and doing other DB-related tasks. You'll need some sort of management tool for this.
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