How to install SQL Server on Mac?

Google pulled up this article: How to Install SQL Server on Mac

aqu16 wrote:

How do you install SQL Server on Mac?

Not easily.

Microsoft SQL Server runs on Microsoft Windows, Windows Server, Azure, and Linux. Not directly on macOS.

Not directly? If you want to add some non-trivial dependencies, it is apparently possible to run a Microsoft Linux SQL Server container in Docker on macOS, and is also possible by running Linux as a guest of macOS.

You’ll want to check with folks that know far mire about Docker for details if you decide to follow that path, and you’ll still have what amounts to a Linux guest (container) running in your Mac.

The other (large) wrinkle here is that you are running Apple silicon and not Intel x86-64, which means you’ll either need to use emulation too (Rosetta for the guest, or UTM), or will need to find an Arm-native version of ~everything, and Linux is only just getting native support for Apple silicon via Fedora Asahi Remix, and I’d expect SQL Serve support for the Apple silicon architecture to be trailing that.

There are other SQL databases available for macOS (e.g. PostgreSQL), and the eminently useful SQLite database is built in. Which would be my recommended path here, if not connecting to SQL Server running on Azure, or connecting to some other hosted Microsoft SQL database.

The link in the reply above is to SQL Server management tools and not AFAICT to SQL Server.