1. 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

2. About Me
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3. What’s Your Favorite SSMS Feature? What’s your most common SSMS gripe?
Short Discussion

4. 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

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

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

7. Exporting and Visualizing Results

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

9. Source Control Integration
Demo

10. 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)

11. Extensions
Demo

12. Integrated Terminal Choice of cmd PS git bash Noteworthy
Split terminal

13. Integrated Terminal
Demo

14. (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

15. SQL Notebook
Demo

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

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

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

19. Resources
GitHub repo for Azure Data Studio
Contribute by adding Issues
Docs
Twitter @AzureDataStudio
My repo for this talk

20. Complete a session eval, please.
Q & A
Complete a session eval, please.
Thank you!
(Be honest, but gentle!)
@svenaelterman