Connect to SQL Server database from a docker container

Question

I have docker for windows installed on my machine. There is a console application targeting .net core 1.0.0 that tries to access a SQL Server database running on a different VM.

Answer 1

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SQL Server instance string connection in Linux Docker

According to Saurabh Singh from Microsoft:

The Instance name support is available in v 1.1 of .Net Core. In v1.0 of .Net Core, Instance names are not supported on OS other than Windows.

So I don't think you can connect from .Net Core 1.0 running on Linux to an SQL Server using instance name.

Your choices seem to be:

don't use instance name
wait for .Net Core 1.1 (planned for "Fall 2016")
use pre-release version of .Net Core 1.1