MacOS

Good news for anyone who’s been working around the AVX issue I wrote about in my previous post. Microsoft has fixed it in Cumulative Update 1 (CU1) for SQL Server 2025.

What Changed

Back in November when SQL Server 2025 RTM was released and I upgraded to macOS 26, I ran into an AVX instruction issue that prevented the container from starting on Docker Desktop using Rosetta on Apple Silicon. The container would crash with this error:

Update (February 2, 2026): Microsoft has fixed this issue in SQL Server 2025 CU1. The container now runs successfully on Docker Desktop for macOS without needing OrbStack. See my follow-up post for details.

SQL Server 2025 RTM is here, and if you’re running Docker on macOS Tahoe 26, you might have hit a wall trying to get it running. Here’s what happened when I tried spinning up the latest container image and how I worked around it.