How To Install SQL Server on Mac M1 & M2 | Latest for 2022

How to Install SQL Server and SQL Server Management Studio on Your Mac with M1 & M2 Apple Chip. With IDE. Latest for 2022 (MacOS Monterey). Step by Step Guide.
Docker Run Command :
docker run -e "ACCEPT_EULA=1" -e "MSSQL_SA_PASSWORD={password}" -e "MSSQL_PID=Developer" -e "MSSQL_USER=SA" -p 1433:1433 -d --name=sql mcr.microsoft.com/azure-sql-edge
(Change the password inside the curly braces {} and don't include the curly braces when you run the command.)
Example :
docker run -e "ACCEPT_EULA=1" -e "MSSQL_SA_PASSWORD=Password123" -e "MSSQL_PID=Developer" -e "MSSQL_USER=SA" -p 1433:1433 -d --name=sql mcr.microsoft.com/azure-sql-edge
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[@Alcaraz13]

Hi Dominic! I'm starting my Data Analyst bootcamp and with this video you helped me in my first challenge (install SQL on my Mac). I saw a lot of videos and read many forums where the solution passed by installing a virtual machine, which is paid. Hopefully I came to here! Thanks a lot !🙏

[@Miss_Khemmie]

I have been battling with this for months. This video is a life saver. It made it so easy. Thank you so much.

[@tsitsimunemo1765]

The simplest way to install and very straightforward. Thank you!!!

[@huysaysoui]

In my first attempt, it didn't work because I whether downloaded a wrong version instead of Apple Silicon one or I had written the password that wasn't complicated enough. Everything works!! Thank you

[@kathyzhu9494]

Thank you so much! The information is very detailed and has been incredibly helpful. I encountered an issue with the "docker engine stopped" during the process, only to realize later that I had not yet upgraded my Mac. After completing the upgrade, all the other processes ran smoothly.

[@VincenzoCappelluti]

I spent a lot of days to find a effective guide. I finally found! Thank you so much!!!

[@user-du9tx8hk7q]

..worked perfectly..I just switched to Mac M2 and this video totally helped...I'm very grateful.

[@nizlopist]

Thanks Dominic, clear and straightforward explanation.

[@RichardFarrell-et3hi]

Thank you so much. Other guides doesn't work. I tried to install for hours until I found you!

[@preetpatel4119]

Amazing walkthrough bro loved the way you explain each step! WORKED FOR ME!

[@MaHa63b]

I want to thank you about excellent video. I got very much help when I configured MS SQL Server and Azure data Studio first time into M1 MacBook. Good Work!

[@victorselvadorai6037]

Thank you so much Dominic.. I am from finance background no knowledge on computers.. but wanted to learn SQL.. this video helped me to install the SQL with ease.. thank you so much.. wish you more success..

[@rachelnavarro2897]

I'm on the same boat as an Accountant, trying to install and learn SQL and other data bases to add to my resume. 😊

[@sheelsanghvi2170]

I was facing some issues with getting docker images running with Mac M2. This video really helped. Thank you!!

[@datawithdominic]

Glad it helped!

[@meskeremwondimu6548]

Thank you so much for making this video dear! Every step is very clear and works smoothly! God bless you!

[@mohammedfaizal3577]

It really worked for me after I look and try some tutorials, yours is the one that worked. Owe you a lot.

[@preetilazarus1653]

Thank you Dominic. This was super helpful. Fantastic job on breaking down the installation of sql server on mac !!

[@ahmadberro7550]

Thank you soooo much. I've been getting loads of errors with other tutorials but this one worked perfectly

[@Carmensitaaa01]

For everyone with this error showing: " A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server) ", you can fix it by deleting the container and creating another one by taking the exemple from the description of the video. This one worked for me..

[@fasihussaini8554]

thank you so much. God bless you immensely

[@Champaignepapi1]

not worked

[@PraveenKumar-zi4vc]

where is the container and how to create another ?? @Carmensitaaa01

[@tutkuozdilek]

If deleting container and creating another one did not work for you, generate your password with numbers, uppercase letters, lowercase letters and symbols. This worked for me.

[@theindiananalyst1903]

Just wanted to thank you for the video. Finally after trying so long, I have been able to install it. Kudos for the work.

[@itsahmedbasha]

Thanks for making this video. It really helped me to run SQL Server on my Mac M1 Air.

[@prakashprakash7721]

Still working as of today! Thank you!

[@Yateng]

Thank you soooooooo much! So simple, straightforward forward AND works smoothly!👍

[@DanielleLLove]

i continue to experience errors...are you willing to share how you navigated?

[@dom9882]

Excellent video! Been struggling to get SQL loaded onto my M1 for a long long time. Until now :)

[@FlutterShipp]

This video is easy and straightforward, thanks a lot man.

[@pras_._hant60]

simplest and straight forward

[@francescamagnoli2905]

You're my hero!!!! thank you for a through and easy to follow video!!

[@Brocollipy]

Excellent! Thanks for making this video. Really helpful.

[@iamyasinkaya]

Thanks, I was making mistakes in m1/M2 chips because I am a new macbook user, this video was very useful.

[@alightedandsang]

i watch so many videos and i can't install them but your video clip made it possible for me to install it. thanks for making such a useful video!

[@carlo6195]

Thanks, Dominic! Very helpful!

[@gioabeleda3269]

Thanks! Helped a lot! Trying to learn SQL and the tutorials didnt talk about how to make things work for Apple Silicon!

[@SUDHAKARSHARMA94]

Thankyou! Lifesaver, been struggling for weeks

[@AleksanderBabayev]

Great guide. Thank you very much!

[@juliaguzheng]

Thank you Dominic! One little pitfall I noticed is that when running the command line (provided in video description), I had to replace double quote to single quote to get it work, not sure why, but I think is worth sharing, might help some of you who's having trouble.

[@chrisjbeech1994]

It wasn't working for me until I tried this - thank you!!

[@mau5265]

thank you sososo much!

[@iam_elgee]

Works for me too now. thanks

[@vamsikrishgvk513]

Thanks! Faced the same issue and resolved with ur comment!

[@adelajami8731]

Amazing and Clear, thx! All works fine, even the creating for a new database

[@FlyEaglesFly514]

Thank you so much! finally got SQL in my Mac even with intel chip

[@ylast3756]

None of the tutorial found on google work. Primarily because of format issues. Yours, however, worked for me! Thank you Indian brother!

[@kpopfandom28]

i had some technical difficulties bc i am not that tech savvy lol but it worked!! thank you!

[@hemanthsriram5017]

Thanks Dominic, Very useful and helped me a lot by installing in the same way as you did .

[@AndrewReeman_RemD]

Thank you so much for posting this. Very helpful!

[@graceakambe4154]

Thank you so much!! The video was really helpful!

[@igohan_24]

Thank you Dominic! your vid helped me out so much, I had to sub.

[@muznimubarak4074]

Very very useful video! Thank you Dominic!!

[@ammarmangala9814]

i'm finally able to connect my .net application to a database using this video. thank you so much!!!

[@009freestyler]

Thanks for this video! Keep going 👍🏻👍🏻

[@akhileshgoel339]

very nice !! and if you have any bug just close(cmd+Q) and reopen and re run the process

[@zah2067]

thank you so muchh for this! setting up app not supported by Mac is such a pain in the ass. this saved the day!!

[@BruceWilliams-mt9xt]

truly appreciated! Nice work!

[@abdulhamidibrahim8350]

thank you this is simple and straight forward

[@yaroslavtsybulskyi2635]

Thank you! It was really helpful

[@jct8213]

Wow! Thank you so much. So simple and straight forward.

[@nurpatshaseidakhmet9717]

did u install ? can u help me ?

[@kellylewis5907]

Great video, so helpful!!

[@rownakalrashidsunan5980]

Thank you very much , simple instructions that I wanted. Subscribing your channel.❤️

[@donovanrodriguez7580]

Ty so much, yesterday I spent all my night installing a VM for my sql server and it's not supported for windows 11, with this video you save me, ty

[@kathleenwong5548]

OMG this video helps a lot!!! I have M2 Macbook and was giving me quite a tough time at the Azure connection step. If anyone ever encounter some connection error 35 like I do, please try put "localhost, 1433" and try again. If it kept saying that connection fail to login "username" please try remove the container and run command in terminal again removing all the " quotation marks. This whole set up process took me 5 hours today..... so much research.

[@pralhadgautam]

remove container from where and how? got error 35

[@wintersol9921]

Thanks a lot, I was just about to give up, but I found your comment. These type of comments help a lot, and thanks for commenting it and helping others to solve their errors too.

[@wintersol9921]

remove the container from docker, just go to docker, and click on containers, if status column is not running, remove it and basically do what the comment says@@pralhadgautam

[@larissacabrera5210]

this solved it for me, thank you so much!

[@matheusp2001]

Thank you so much! Just saved my life

[@mymakiology]

Thank you so much!!!!!! I've been having problem connecting to the sql server and this solved it.

[@danielopadiran]

please how exactly did you solve the issue, I am facing the same issue

[@Littlestephy29]

great video. finally worked for me. thanks!!!!

[@christianmartinezgil722]

Thanks, it was very useful.

[@shisharon5503]

Thank you! It's helpful. The solution for the following error is to create a password at least 8 digits. '"A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: TCP Provider, error:40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server: Could not open a connection to SQL Server)"

[@danielihe7014]

Hey, I'm having that issue right now at the moment, I made my password like 12 characters long but I still get the same error.

[@diniolshop]

finally, i found it! u made my day!!!!!!! THANK YOUUUUUUUUU🤟

[@jagadeeshb2645]

Nice explanation!

[@yevmnat]

Nice work! Thank you!

[@MasoudPourhasan]

Super useful, thank you very much!

[@ilyamengel9862]

Great video. I spent two hours until I found your video.

[@missloliipop]

I got this to work appreciate it much!!

[@vazirayusupova1218]

thank you thank you thank you!! after spending 3 hours finally found a video that worked!

[@datawithdominic]

Glad I could help

[@moussaberthe4108]

Perfect. It's also work on MacOS Intel chips

[@mrasoft7184]

Well explained, thanks. Regarding the central memory of your Mac (Mini or MacBook or iMac or...). Will 16 GB central memory be sufficient for using Docker and Azure Data Studio ?

[@user-ls5wq6ls3u]

thank you so much for step by step procedure

[@mattconway7910]

Worked great, but one thing to add is that you have to go into advanced settings when starting the connections for the first time and set your port to 1433 which is what the terminal code that is programmed to grab. Hopefully that helps someone as it took me about 45 minutes of troubleshooting to realize.

[@chibuzorwilliams1026]

Thanks, worked for me!

[@Ovr.gt.]

Thank you very much for the video, it has been very useful to me.

[@rvscootin3457]

I had a few issues with the command(s) in terminal, but I got it working - Thanks!

[@victoridiodemise7918]

please what did you do differently?

[@Rakuz]

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[@julianoviedo]

Hello Dominic. Thanks for the video. Amazing job.

[@alexgeld7173]

Thanks so much mate. You must show us the way (if there is one) of how to get PowerBI on our M1/2 Macs :)

[@samratrai1530]

thanks a lot man really helped me out cheers man

[@meganschlebecker9347]

Thank you!!! I was stuck all day yesterday trying to figure this out, this is incredibly helpful!!

[@Galacticgospel.]

can you help me with the last step for some reason it won't let me connect to the server

[@wissaagunoy6307]

Yess same

[@rachelnavarro2897]

​@@Galacticgospel. same. I think my problem is that i did change the ID from SA but then I noticed that he has the same SA in 2 different locations so now I may need to re-do that section again but not sure how that can be done, if i just need to copy it again and this time not changing anything only the password that i created. Were you able to work on your error?

[@Galacticgospel.]

@@rachelnavarro2897 not really but i did find a page that lets me practice sql for free

[@rachelnavarro2897]

@@Galacticgospel. ah que bien. me la pasas please? estoy aquí tratando de arreglar mi issue aun. Creo q es el ID q yo lo cambie a otro pero veo q cuando lo copy and paste solo cambie en un lado y en otro se quedo como SA aun.

[@JanBrinkmann]

That really helped me. Thanks!

[@gerardoricor]

Thank you! That help me a lot!

[@ellashurhavetsky9648]

thank you so much, this is the only way it worked!

[@andreykositskiy649]

Thank you!! you help a lot

[@mahkhi7154]

We Can Also Reverse Engineer Azure Edge (SQL Server subset). There's Docker images for Intel x86 and Apple ARM chips. So, Support for Undocumented SQL statements.

[@bollamani]

Thanks Dominic, This video helps a lot

[@diegobarreto4995]

it works perfect!!! Thank you so much!!!

[@Pabloum7]

Thank you very much. This was very useful :) you saved me

[@MenziManqele]

Super easy and simple thanks mate :-)

[@malikkngn]

Dominic thank you so much incredible tutorial video

[@hamzaaltaee2895]

Thanks , your work is amazing and very useful for me

[@mrsaif7310]

thank you so much brother with the help of this video I can use sql ..

[@jasprice]

That was perfect, thank you!

[@yogagurl947]

very helpful, thank you!

[@mxlodyk]

Thank you so much for this video!

[@juanmoctezuma9225]

Hi Dominic - Great video and super useful - it helped me out setting sql up! Although for setting the SA_PASSWORD when connecting docker with azure..., please make a note for the future that the password must be at least 8 characters long and contain characters from three of the following four sets: Uppercase letters, Lowercase letters, Base 10 digits, and Symbols... I ran into this issue and I'm sure (based on the comments) that plenty of folks had the same problem too - I hope this helps - cheers

[@datawithdominic]

Glad it helped!

[@daisyzongo6978]

Hello I going through the same issue but since the password has been put already in the query and running where exactly should I change it for it to work in the data azure studio while making the connection. I keep getting errors with the initial password in the query. If someone can help please

[@e.a3813]

Dude, you are a lifesaver thank you so much... You too Dominic !

[@eirikureiriksson5035]

@@daisyzongo6978 Are you still having this trouble ?

[@bekasiordia2568]

@@eirikureiriksson5035 I have it, how to change the password ?

[@ronnysalazar6166]

Thank You!!! Cheers from Honduras 🇭🇳 🙏🏼

[@datawithdominic]

You're welcome!

[@unbr3akable688]

"A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the pre-login handshake. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 35 - An internal exception was caught)" I get this error on the last step. So close yet so far Fixed. Works! Thank you!

[@noyes6007]

can you say how you fixed it please

[@user-bq4xp7dq3p]

@@noyes6007 Yes please

[@bibinkunjumon]

Thanks broi..stratghtforward. I installed in Mac m1 today

[@jannyjudeikeh940]

Hi Dominic- please I was stuck at the place where you said I should copy the code and run it in the terminal. Please I don't have a terminal on my laptop as I am new in this. What terminal do you suggest I download?

[@berbagi.konten]

Thxuu is worked on MBP 2019 !!

[@prashantgupta7756]

Works like a charm thanks fr the post

[@charalamposkatsoukis8694]

really good video and good comments too. I might add that if the azure cannot connect and throws this error --- " A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server) "---- than you probably didn't start the docker. go to docker then to the containers tab and on the proper container (for me it is called sql) just press start. and now try to connect again. everything should be fine! A lot of the problems that someone could face during the procedure are already solved down on the comments' session !

[@cathyordinola5816]

I am currently having this problem but also I don't know what to put as the username... I am a bit confused

[@charalamposkatsoukis8694]

@@cathyordinola5816 you don’t need to change the username. Just let it as it is . Just put a strong password cause otherwise it might not work(did not have that issue personally but some others do refer to this problem).