The purpose of Docker is to package applications and all their dependencies into a standardized, isolated unit called a container, ensuring that the software runs reliably and consistently across any computing environment
Azure SQL Database is a fully managed, intelligent, relational Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) database service provided by Microsoft Azure
a server less computing service offered by cloud providers (like Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) that allows you to run containerized applications without needing to provision or manage the underlying virtual machines or servers
Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) is a proprietary relational database management system (RDBMS) developed by Microsoft
MySQL is a popular, open-source Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) that stores data in structured tables (rows and columns) and uses SQL (Structured Query Language) to manage it