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+## Local setup for SQL query testing
+
+### Requirements
+
+- Docker
+- HTTP Client of your choice
+- Access to ghcr.io with permissions for Aam Digital private repositories
+
+### Start containers
+
+Take a look into the `docker-compose.yml` and adapt the file if necessary.
+
+If you're on an ARM based system, you need to enable for the SQS container:
+
+- `platform: linux/amd64`
+
+#### Authorization ghcr.io
+SQS is not open source and only available to developers of the Aam Digital team through a private docker image.
+
+You will need to do a `docker login` for ghcr.io, to be able to fetch sqs image.
+
+See [GitHub Documentation](https://docs.github.com/en/packages/working-with-a-github-packages-registry/working-with-the-container-registry#authenticating-to-the-container-registry) for details.
+
+### Access CouchDb web interface
+
+You can access the CouchDb webinterface here: http://localhost:5984/_utils/
+
+The default credentials are:
+
+username: `admin`  
+password: `docker`
+
+### Using existing Database
+
+If you have a copy from an existing database, stop the couchdb container and just copy all files from the `couchdb/data` directory
+into your mapped couchdb volume.
+The default mapping is: `~/docker-volumes/aam-digital/db-couch/document-data:/opt/couchdb/data`
+
+Then start the couchdb container again. Nothing more to do.
+
+### Running SQL queries against SQS
+
+To run a Query, you can use the POST endpoint: `http://localhost:4984/app/_design/sqlite:config`
+
+Note that the query payload you send here is _not_ the ReportConfig entity used within Aam Digital but the raw SQS payload as shown in the example below.
+
+#### Authentication
+
+You need to set a 'basic auth' Authorization-Header with the couchdb credentials.
+
+#### Example
+
+```curl
+## Example Request
+curl -X "POST" "http://localhost:4984/app/_design/sqlite:config" \
+     -H 'Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8' \
+     -u 'admin:docker' \
+     -d $'{
+  "query": "SELECT count(*) FROM School",
+  "args": []
+}'
+
+```
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+# ***************************************************************
+# start local development environment for SQL query testing
+# ***************************************************************
+name: aam-services-sql-environment
+services:
+  db-couch:
+    image: couchdb:3.4
+    volumes:
+      - ~/docker-volumes/aam-digital/db-couch/document-data:/opt/couchdb/data
+    environment:
+      COUCHDB_USER: admin
+      COUCHDB_PASSWORD: docker
+      COUCHDB_SECRET: docker
+    ports:
+      - "5984:5984"
+
+  sqs:
+    image: ghcr.io/aam-digital/aam-sqs-linux:latest
+    #    platform: linux/amd64
+    depends_on:
+      - db-couch
+    ports:
+      - "4984:4984"
+    volumes:
+      - ~/docker-volumes/aam-digital/sqs/data:/data
+    environment:
+      SQS_COUCHDB_URL: http://db-couch:5984