1. Eric Flamm
Flamm Consulting, Inc.
Use Visual Studio Code to Access SQL Server from Windows (or Mac, or Linux, or ...)

2. Agenda Intro About VS Code and the MS SQL Extension Demos Resources
Q & A

3. About Me Independent Business Intelligence/Analytics Consultant
MCP: Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012
Member of TAG Data Science and Analytics Society Board
Active Volunteer with Atlanta Microsoft Database Forum (local PASS Chapter)
Organizing Committee for Atlanta SQL Saturday since 2010
Contact Info:
Mobile: (678)
Web:

4. Poll Heard of VS Code? Use VS Code? Used VS Code with MS SQL?
What… is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

5. About VS Code Home Page: code.visualstudio.com/
Built on Electron Shell using Python on Node.js
Built to support Javascript/TypeScript development
1000’s of extensions provide support for multiple languages/development environments

6. About the MS SQL Extension
Home Page: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/sql-server-linux-develop-use-vscode
The MS SQL extension enables you to connect to SQL Server, compose and execute T-SQL Queries, and view the results

7. How to Get VS Code
Windows – Download and run the installer from the VS Code Getting Started page
Linux – Depends on the distro – download the appropriate package, update the package store, and install with yum or apt‐get
Mac – download the VS Code archive from and expand it to retrieve the app launcher

8. How to get the MS SQL Extension
Open the Command Palette, select Install Extension, enter mssql, and click Install
On Mac, you need OpenSSL for .net Core (used by mssql extension) – instructions are on the mssql extension page
Older versions of Windows require the Windows 10 Universal C Runtime (WindowsUCRT.zip)

9. Demos Create a SQL Server Connection Object Connect to SQL Server
Create a database
Create a table
Load some data
Retrieve some data
Save results to JSON file
Demos - alternate between Windows and Linux
Create a connection to Azure SQL server (on both platforms)
Open a new SQL document and connect to server (show connection info on status bar)
Create Database for Grail Trivia
Create Table for Grail Trivia
Load Trivia items into table
Retrieve Trivia items from table

10. VS Code Settings
"server": "uxjf04zebq.database.windows.net", "database": "", "authenticationType": "SqlLogin", "user": "eflamm", "password": "", "savePassword": false, "profileName": "azuresql", "connectTimeout": 30, "encrypt": true, "applicationName": "vscode-mssql"

11. Resources
Use Visual Studio Code to connect and query data (