azuresql-db-container

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Fine to try.

By microsoft/azure-sql-database-container (GitHub) · data · 32 stars · scanned at commit b785608

Runs the Azure SQL Database container locally (Private Preview): the real PaaS engine where SERVERPROPERTY('EngineEdition') returns 5. This is NOT the SQL Server image mcr.microsoft.com/mssql/server. Use when a user wants to "run Azure SQL locally", "add a local SQL database", "add SQL Server to my docker compose", "spin up a local mssql container", "local SQL for development or CI", "connect with sqlcmd", "use Podman for SQL", "SQL container won't start", "Microsoft Entra authentication on the…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

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Found in 7 places.

skills/azuresql-db-container/SKILL.md, line 58docker login sqldbpreview-dpgaeqhmgphzd4bk.azurecr.io -u <username>
skills/azuresql-db-container/SKILL.md, line 71HOST_PORT=1433; while lsof -nP -iTCP:"$HOST_PORT" -sTCP:LISTEN >/dev/null 2>&1; do HOST_PORT=$((HOST_PORT+1)); done
skills/azuresql-db-container/SKILL.md, line 86docker pull sqldbpreview-dpgaeqhmgphzd4bk.azurecr.io/azure-sql/db-dev:latest

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skills/azuresql-db-container/SKILL.md, line 120docker exec sqldb /opt/mssql-tools18/bin/sqlcmd -S localhost -U sa -P "$MSSQL_SA_PASSWORD" -C -b \
skills/azuresql-db-container/SKILL.md, line 137bash scripts/verify.sh # prints "VERIFY OK on localhost,<port>", or exits non-zero
skills/azuresql-db-container/SKILL.md, line 173docker exec -i sqldb /opt/mssql-tools18/bin/sqlcmd -S localhost -U sa -P "$MSSQL_SA_PASSWORD" -C -b \
skills/azuresql-db-container/SKILL.md, line 192docker rm -f sqldb # stop and remove the container

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'azuresql-db-container' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'azuresql-db-container' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named azuresql-db-container already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/microsoft/azure-sql-database-container' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'b785608f7de00966c28cf18f722ce50c402b239b' -- 'skills/azuresql-db-container' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/azuresql-db-container' ~/.agents/skills/'azuresql-db-container' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'azuresql-db-container' ~/.claude/skills/'azuresql-db-container' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-07	`b785608`	95