skip test as stopgap until upstream fixes the issue

testutil/mssqlhelper.go

@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ const (
 
 // PrepareMSSQLTestContainer sets up a test MSSQL docker container
 func PrepareMSSQLTestContainer(t *testing.T) (cleanup func(), retURL string) {
+	// skip due to error:
+	// tls: failed to parse certificate from server: x509: negative serial number in test case failures.
+	t.Skip("Skipping until https://github.com/microsoft/mssql-docker/issues/895 is resolved.")
+
 	if strings.Contains(runtime.GOARCH, "arm") {
 		t.Skip("Skipping, as this image is not supported on ARM architectures")
 	}
@@ -31,8 +35,6 @@ func PrepareMSSQLTestContainer(t *testing.T) (cleanup func(), retURL string) {
 		return func() {}, os.Getenv("MSSQL_URL")
 	}
 
-	// Workaround for https://github.com/microsoft/mssql-docker/issues/895 and us temporary seeing
-	// tls: failed to parse certificate from server: x509: negative serial number in test case failures.
 	containerfile := `
 FROM mcr.microsoft.com/mssql/server:2017-latest
 USER root