There are lots of ways to handle databases in a containerized environment like Docker. Here's how to create SQL Server in a container, how to load it with the data you want and how to integrate that ...

Integrate Docker support and Microsoft's Visual Studio Code with this brief tutorial from expert Jack Wallen.

Install Bitnami’s Kubeless extension for Visual Studio Code, and you can deploy functions, call them, read their logs, or delete them directly from the Visual Studio Code command palette.

Visual Studio Code is a free, lightweight but powerful source code editor that runs on your desktop and on the web and is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Raspberry Pi OS.

I know you can install Windows 11 for ARM in Parallels and then run Visual Studio and SQL Server on top of that (with ARM-x64 emulation, I guess?), but IIS support was missing last I checked.