fix: resolve SQL Server container initialization issues in GitHub Actions

Author: lotyp

.github/workflows/testing-mssql.yml

@@ -43,18 +43,36 @@ jobs:
         env:
           ACCEPT_EULA: 'Y'
           SA_PASSWORD: 'SSpaSS__1_123'
+          MSSQL_PID: 'Express'
+          MSSQL_MEMORY_LIMIT_MB: '2048'
+          MSSQL_ENABLE_HADR: '0'
+          MSSQL_AGENT_ENABLED: 'false'
         options: >-
-          --health-cmd "/opt/mssql-tools/bin/sqlcmd -S localhost -U sa -P 'SSpaSS__1_123' -l 30 -Q 'SELECT 1'"
-          --health-interval 4s
-          --health-timeout 2s
-          --health-retries 16
+          --health-cmd "timeout 30s /opt/mssql-tools18/bin/sqlcmd -S localhost -U sa -P 'SSpaSS__1_123' -C -Q 'SELECT 1' || exit 1"
+          --health-interval 10s
+          --health-timeout 30s
+          --health-retries 30
+          --health-start-period 60s
         ports:
           - 11433:1433
 
     steps:
       - name: 📦 Check out the codebase
         uses: actions/[email protected]
 
+      - name: 🔧 Install Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server
+        run: |
+          # Get Ubuntu version dynamically (ubuntu-latest is currently 24.04)
+          UBUNTU_VERSION=$(lsb_release -rs 2>/dev/null || echo "24.04")
+          echo "Installing ODBC driver for Ubuntu $UBUNTU_VERSION"
+
+          curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | sudo apt-key add -
+          curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/$UBUNTU_VERSION/prod.list | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/msprod.list
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo ACCEPT_EULA=Y apt-get install -y msodbcsql18 mssql-tools18 unixodbc-dev
+          echo 'export PATH="$PATH:/opt/mssql-tools18/bin"' >> ~/.bashrc
+          source ~/.bashrc
+
       - name: 🛠️ Setup PHP
         uses: shivammathur/[email protected]
         with:
@@ -90,5 +108,27 @@ jobs:
         with:
           dependencies: ${{ matrix.dependencies }}
 
+      - name: ⏳ Verify SQL Server Connection
+        run: |
+          echo "Verifying SQL Server is fully ready..."
+          for i in {1..30}; do
+            echo "Connection test attempt $i/30..."
+            if /opt/mssql-tools18/bin/sqlcmd -S 127.0.0.1,11433 -U sa -P 'SSpaSS__1_123' -C -Q "SELECT 1 AS TestConnection" -o /tmp/sqltest.log 2>&1; then
+              echo "✅ SQL Server connection successful!"
+              cat /tmp/sqltest.log
+              break
+            else
+              echo "❌ SQL Server connection failed, retrying in 5 seconds..."
+              cat /tmp/sqltest.log 2>/dev/null || true
+              if [ $i -eq 30 ]; then
+                echo "💥 SQL Server failed to become ready after 150 seconds"
+                # Show container logs for debugging
+                docker logs $(docker ps -q --filter "ancestor=mcr.microsoft.com/mssql/server:2022-latest") || true
+                exit 1
+              fi
+              sleep 5
+            fi
+          done
+
       - name: 🧪 Run phpunit tests with Pest
         run: composer test