Mastering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Connecting to an existing SQL Server

navcontainerhelper makes this task just a bit more convenient than using Docker directly. You need to specify the same parameters, but you can give it a credential object instead of putting the username and password in as clear text. As a reminder, the following is what the docker run command looks like:

docker run -e accept_eula=y -e databaseServer=sqlserver -e databaseUsername=sqluser -e "databasePassword=1SuperSecretPwd!" -e databasename=FinancialsW1 mcr.microsoft.com/businesscentral/sandbox

The following is the same command but using navcontainerhelper. It will open a credential entry dialog where you can enter your SQL username and password. But instead of sharing the password as clear text in the ...