No, not that kind of volume!
Over the past couple of blog posts, I have been talking about the versatility of deploying SQL Server with Docker. This combination is a great way to quickly and easily spin up local SQL Server instances. In the most recent post, I talked about a method to copy and restore a sample database into a Docker container that is running SQL Server. In this post, I am going to talk about an easier way to accomplish this by attaching a persistent volume to the container. With this method you don’t have to copy any files into the container, and it makes the overall process easier and repeatable.