The Azure SQL Database container (local, Private Preview)

This is the entry point for running the Azure SQL Database engine on your machine in a container. It owns the shared reference docs that every task skill links to. Start here, then hand off to a task skill.

Re-measured on 2026-09-19 against the container image tag 18.0.226_4_147, reporting EngineEdition 5, Edition SQL Azure, build 12.0.2000.8. All nine executable checks behind this skill pass, including Msg 40508 for USE, Msg 40510 for BACKUP, Msg 2812 for sp_configure (absent rather than refused), no SQL Server Agent job store, the VECTOR(n) type with VECTOR_DISTANCE, sqlcmd at /opt/mssql-tools18/bin/sqlcmd, and /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d not being auto-run. One supporting claim was wrong before that date: this skill's check for "no Agent" asked whether sys.databases can show msdb, and it can. msdb is listed, and there is still no Agent, because OBJECT_ID('msdb.dbo.sysjobs') is NULL. The check now asks that instead.

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