Integration tests fails to run sql server on M1 chip about craftsman

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@pdevito3 Don't be sorry at all. This is a small price to pay to advance processor architectures 😅

Regarding MS timeline, the SQL Server 2022 was launched in December and it is currently in closed preview. They provide no mention of if it will support ARM64 in their docs. I can only speculate what they will do. Even if they support ARM64, it would take them at least 6-8 months before they GA and publish the docker image.

Regarding SQL Edge, it basically runs on the exact same DB engine as SQL Server 2019 with support for ARM64. There are some unsupported features as documented here I used the SQL Edge and all the tests are passing and I'm able to connect to it using the same old SQL server DB drivers. So it should suffice for anyone trying this out on a macOS with M1.

My current thinking is to create a simple extension method to detect if the current machine is macOS + arm64 -> if yes, returns SQL edge image, else it returns SQL server 2019 image. I'll add comments as to why this is required so anyone reading the code can reference this issue quickly. Hopefully be end of year SQL server 2022 stable docker images gets published and we can remove this workaround. Let me know if that plan sounds reasonable to you. Expect a PR shortly!

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Oof this doesn't sound fun. Sorry for the headache here.

Do you know if MS has talked about a timeline for porting it to ARM64? Did you get yours working with ASE? Would be curious to see what it looks like and if there needs to be updates to areas other than the db utility (e.g. checkpoint and helper methods come to mind).

I do agree that option 3 would be best, but i am a little worried about the overhead it would add to the project.

At the very least, I can definitely update the docs and maybe even point to a gist with updates, but I could be open to option 3 to make it more portable. Could you send me what the end result might look like for the db util with option 3 and let me know if you had to update checkpoint, the helpers, or anything else I might be forgetting?