Add SQL Server testing on Github Actions (#37501)

For SQL Server 2025, 2022, 2019.

Closes #36382

Author: roji

.github/workflows/TestCosmos.yaml

@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 name: Test Cosmos
 
 on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - feature/*
+      - release/*
   pull_request:
     branches:
       - main

.github/workflows/TestSqlServer.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+name: Test SQL Server
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - feature/*
+      - release/*
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - feature/*
+      - release/*
+
+permissions: {}
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        sqlserver_version: [2025, 2022, 2019]
+
+    env:
+      MSSQL_SA_PASSWORD: 'PLACEHOLDERPass$$w0rd'
+
+    services:
+      mssql:
+        image: mcr.microsoft.com/mssql/server:${{ matrix.sqlserver_version }}-latest
+        env:
+          ACCEPT_EULA: Y
+          SA_PASSWORD: ${{ env.MSSQL_SA_PASSWORD }}
+        ports:
+          - 1433:1433
+        options: >-
+          --health-cmd="/opt/mssql-tools18/bin/sqlcmd -S localhost -U sa -P $SA_PASSWORD -Q 'SELECT 1' -C"
+          --health-start-period=20s
+          --health-interval=2s
+          --health-retries=30
+          --health-timeout=5s
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+      - name: Restore
+        run: ./restore.sh
+
+      - name: Test on SQL Server
+        env:
+          Test__SqlServer__DefaultConnection: 'Server=localhost;Database=master;User=SA;Password=${{ env.MSSQL_SA_PASSWORD }};Connect Timeout=60;ConnectRetryCount=0;Trust Server Certificate=true'
+        run: dotnet test test/EFCore.SqlServer.FunctionalTests
+
+      - name: Publish Test Results
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v6
+        if: always()
+        with:
+          name: test-results-sqlserver-${{ matrix.sqlserver_version }}
+          path: artifacts/log/Debug/*

.github/workflows/copilot-setup-steps.yml

@@ -13,20 +13,26 @@ on:
     paths:
       - .github/workflows/copilot-setup-steps.yml
 
+permissions: {}
+
 jobs:
   # The job MUST be called `copilot-setup-steps` or it will not be picked up by Copilot.
   copilot-setup-steps:
     runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
 
+    env:
+      MSSQL_SA_PASSWORD: 'PLACEHOLDERPass$$w0rd'
+      Test__SqlServer__DefaultConnection: 'Server=localhost;Database=master;User=SA;Password=PLACEHOLDERPass$$w0rd;Connect Timeout=60;ConnectRetryCount=0;Trust Server Certificate=true'
+
     # Install SQL Server via a docker container.
     # It's better to do this rather than e.g. use a testcontainer, because then the agent can reuse the same container
     # and instance of SQL Server rather than have to start it up each time it needs to iterate and run a test.
     services:
       mssql:
         image: mcr.microsoft.com/mssql/server:2025-latest
         env:
-          ACCEPT_EULA: "Y"
-          SA_PASSWORD: "${{ secrets.MSSQL_SA_PASSWORD }}"
+          ACCEPT_EULA: Y
+          SA_PASSWORD: ${{ env.MSSQL_SA_PASSWORD }}
         ports:
           - 1433:1433
         options: >-
@@ -36,9 +42,8 @@ jobs:
           --health-retries=30
           --health-timeout=5s
 
-    permissions:
-      contents: read
-
     steps:
-      - name: Export SQL Server connection string for the agent's session
-        run: echo "Test__SqlServer__DefaultConnection=Server=localhost;Database=master;User=SA;Password=${{ secrets.MSSQL_SA_PASSWORD }};Connect Timeout=60;ConnectRetryCount=0;Trust Server Certificate=true" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+      # The Github Actions workflow syntax requires there to be at least one step;
+      # we don't have anything to do (we started SQL Server above), so just print something.
+      - name: Dummy step
+        run: echo "Workflow complete."

EFCore.slnx

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
     <File Path=".github/workflows/copilot-setup-steps.yml" />
     <File Path=".github/workflows/inter-branch-merge-flow.yml" />
     <File Path=".github/workflows/TestCosmos.yaml" />
+    <File Path=".github/workflows/TestSqlServer.yaml" />
   </Folder>
   <Folder Name="/src/">
     <File Path="src/Directory.Build.props" />