The New Tool in Your Kit: Azure Data Studio Azure Data Studio is a newer tool in the database developer and DBA's toolkit. It's a cross-platform and extensible application for connecting to on-premises and cloud data. Does it replace SSMS? How is it different? Can it really check if my Diet Coke needs replenishing? Come and find out in this demo-driven session, that will hopefully have you convinced to install Azure Data Studio before 60 minutes are up. Formerly SQL Operations Studio

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What’s Your Favorite SSMS Feature? What’s your most common SSMS gripe? Short Discussion

Some Background on Azure Data Studio Why??? Based on VS Code XPlat (Win, macOS, Linux) Electron VS Code Azure Data Studio Frequent update cadence Electron: electronjs.org

Concepts Open folder Workspace Settings Auto-save To enable find in files, source control Separate settings Workspace Just a file Settings Auto-save

Text Editor Demo Open samples/azure-data-studio folder Acknowledge workspace popup Demo

Exporting and Visualizing Results

Source Control Integration (git) Get started Open the git repo as a folder Capabilities Create new local repo Pull, commit, push …

Source Control Integration Demo

Extensions Like VS and VS Code, from a Marketplace New syntax capabilities PowerShell Script repositories First Responder Kit Additional settings Poor SQL Formatter (based on Poor Man’s T-SQL Formatter)

Extensions Demo

Integrated Terminal Choice of cmd PS git bash Noteworthy Split terminal

Integrated Terminal Demo

(SQL) Notebooks Traditionally, data science concept Same file format as Jupyter notebooks Notebooks keep data history, even when disconnected Export and visualization not (yet?) available https://github.com/microsoft/azuredatastudio/issues/4633

SQL Notebook Demo

Summary: Strengths Compared to SSMS Cross-platform Source control integration (modern, easy) Extensibility (easier?) Open source

Summary: Weaknesses IntelliSense Immature Documentation IntelliSense: one of the touted features, but basic things fail? Bugs galore: Azure AD login, managing groups, renaming connections

Are You Convinced? (poll) Yes, already using it Yes, will start using it now Maybe/unsure No, SSMS Forever!

Resources GitHub repo for Azure Data Studio https://github.com/microsoft/azuredatastudio Contribute by adding Issues Docs https://docs.microsoft.com/sql/azure-data-studio Twitter @AzureDataStudio My repo for this talk https://github.com/SvenAelterman/AzureDataStudioTalk

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