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If you are using xUnit.net, you can probably achieve the same via a collection fixture, if you're on MSTest V2, you can probably use the [AssemblyInitialize] hook, you can find more info on StackOverflow
Depending on the test framework you use, you have to find the proper hook to tell testcontainers to start your SQL Server Docker container just before test execution starts. I am using NUnit so the hook I picked is a class in the root namespace of the integration test project with the [SetupFixture] attribute applied to it.
Dotnet.Testcontainers also comes with some built-in classes that wraps various services, one of these classes actually wraps a SQL Server Docker container and there are few more that covers the most common databases e.g.