


Seeing as we’re installing SQL Edge via a Docker container, we need to have Docker installed. In this article I install the Developer Edition of Azure SQL Edge on a Mac with the M1 chip. You can also the same tools to query Azure SQL Edge that you would use with SQL Server (such as SSMS, Azure Data Studio, etc). It’s built on the latest versions of the SQL Server Database Engine, so you can use T-SQL code just like you would when using SQL Server. Therefore, we can use that image instead of the SQL Server image.Īzure SQL Edge is an optimized relational database engine geared for IoT and IoT Edge deployments. The container image for Azure SQL Edge can be installed on the M1 Mac. The problem is, at the time of writing, SQL Server isn’t supported on the ARM architecture.

This can cause a problem when trying to install SQL Server. Since then, Apple has released its M1 chip, which uses ARM architecture. I previously explained how to install SQL Server on a Mac using the SQL Server for Linux Docker image.
