Runs integration tests against Azure SQL Developer (Private Preview, local engine) in CI. Use when setting up GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, or GitLab CI to test against Azure SQL DB; when adding a database service container to a CI workflow; when tests need a real Azure SQL engine in the pipeline

Makes an app's database connections reliable against the local Azure SQL Developer (Private Preview) and, unchanged, against Azure SQL Database in the cloud: connection pooling plus retry/transient-fault handling. Use when the user mentions "connection pooling", "retry logic", "transient fault", "re

Runs Azure SQL Developer (the Azure SQL Database engine) locally in a container (Private Preview): the real PaaS engine where SERVERPROPERTY('EngineEdition') returns 5 and Edition is 'SQL Azure'. This is NOT the SQL Server image mcr.microsoft.com/mssql/server. Use when a user wants to "run Azure SQL

Stands up an instant no-code REST + GraphQL API over the local Azure SQL Developer using Microsoft Data API Builder (DAB). Use when a user wants to "expose my table as an API", "add a REST API over the database", "generate a GraphQL API", "put an API in front of SQL", "CRUD API without writing code"

Answers questions about what Azure SQL Developer (Private Preview) can and cannot do, and WHY it differs from Azure SQL Database in the Microsoft Azure cloud. Use when a user asks "can I take a backup", "why does USE fail", "is X supported", "why can't I create a vector index", "why does SSMS error"

Reports a bug or files feedback about the azuresql-db-* agent skills themselves, or about Azure SQL Developer (the local Azure SQL Database engine in a container, Private Preview). Use when the user says a skill or the container "did not work", hit an error, behaved unexpectedly, or is missing somet

Migrates a local SQL Server setup to Azure SQL Developer for Azure-faithful local development. Use when a project already uses mcr.microsoft.com/mssql/server, mssql/server, an sqlcmd plus SA password docker setup, a "SQL Server in docker" or "local mssql container", or a docker-compose with the mssq

Builds a serverless API and event-driven handlers over the local Azure SQL Developer using Azure Functions with the Azure SQL bindings. Use when a user wants "a serverless API over SQL", "Azure Functions with a database", "HTTP CRUD with SQL input/output bindings", "run code when a row changes", "re

Imports an existing Azure SQL Database or SQL Server schema and data INTO the local Azure SQL Developer using SqlPackage. Use when asked to "import a bacpac", "load my existing database locally", "restore a dacpac into the container", "bring my prod schema into the dev container", "run my .bacpac/.d

Proves that code built and tested against the local Azure SQL Database container runs unchanged against Azure SQL Database in the cloud, with only the connection string changing. Use when a user wants to develop locally then deploy to the cloud, asks "will this work in Azure", "same code local and c

Builds local vector search, RAG, embeddings, and semantic search on Azure SQL Developer using the native VECTOR type and VECTOR_DISTANCE. Use when you need to store embeddings, do similarity search, top-k nearest neighbor, cosine distance, retrieval-augmented generation, "find similar documents", ch

Scaffolds a NEW app (.NET Aspire, FastAPI, Next.js, NestJS) wired to the local Azure SQL Developer as its default dev database. Use when starting/bootstrapping/initializing a project that needs SQL Server or Azure SQL locally, or when adding "set up the database", "docker compose for the db", "creat

Runs database schema migrations against the local Azure SQL Developer so the same migrations apply identically on the local engine and in the Azure cloud. Use when asked to "run my migrations against the local SQL", "apply schema to the container", "apply EF Core / dotnet ef database update", "Prism

Populates the local Azure SQL Developer database (appdb) with realistic sample/test data so a developer has something to build against. Use when the user says "seed the database", "add test data", "populate the dev database", "generate sample data", "fake data", "load fixtures", "insert test rows",

Adds Azure SQL Developer as a sidecar service in an existing Docker Compose stack or Dev Container. Use when wiring the local Azure SQL Database engine into compose or devcontainer.json, when an app needs a SQL backend via a service name (not localhost), or for prompts like "add SQL to my compose",

Writes integration tests that run IN CODE against a real Azure SQL Developer engine, spun up per test or per suite with Testcontainers and torn down after. Use when the user asks for "integration tests against SQL", "Testcontainers", "spin up a database for tests", "an ephemeral test database", "a t