This article will mention five helpful Azure Data Studio extensions that may help to improve the SQL developers’ productivity.
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How to build custom widgets on Azure Data Studio
July 7, 2022In this article, we will learn how to build a customized widget in Azure Data Studio that helps to monitor the performance metrics.
Read more »How to become a SQL Server Developer
May 20, 2022In this article, we will talk about what SQL Server developers do and which main skills are required to get a job as a SQL developer.
Read more »How to write readable T-SQL queries
May 18, 2022This article intends to give some beneficial suggestions that help to write a more readable T-SQL query.
Read more »Deploy SQL Database projects using Azure Data Studio
February 22, 2022This article explores an alternative solution for SSDT using Azure Data Studio for both Windows and Linux SQL Server.
Read more »Explore Jupyter Books in Azure Data Studio
February 14, 2022This article introduces and explores the Jupyter books in the Azure Data Studio.
Read more »Centralizing Database reference tables for Dev, Test and Prod deployments in Azure Data Studio
January 14, 2022This article talks about centralizing reference tables in Azure Data Studio during the database development process for ease of deployments to multiple environments such as dev, test and production.
Read more »Parameterized SQL Notebooks in Azure Data Studio
November 10, 2021This article will explore Parameterized SQL notebooks in Azure Data Studio.
Read more »Upgrade SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) along with Azure Data Studio
October 20, 2021This article explains upgrading SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and Azure Data Studio (ADS) to their latest version with a single installation.
Read more »Migrating on-premises databases to Azure SQL Database in Azure Data Studio
June 23, 2021This article teaches how to migrate a lightweight on-premises SQL database to an Azure SQL database using Azure Data Studio.
Read more »Using the DB Snapshot Creator Extension in Azure Data Studio
June 8, 2021This article talks about the steps required to add and use the DB Snapshot Creator extension in Azure Data Studio.
Read more »Two ways to build SQL Database Projects in Azure Data Studio
February 18, 2021This article talks about the two standard ways of building SQL Database Projects in Azure Data Studio along with the simple steps of implementation.
Read more »Build a Google BigQuery report with Google Data Studio
December 25, 2020Introduction
In the two-part SQL Shack article, Build a Google BigQuery Resource, I showed how to build a Google BigQuery resource, and then link it to an Azure SQL Server resource. This article will expand on that first part, showing how to build a BigQuery report with Google Data Studio.
Read more »Link Google BigQuery resources into an Azure SQL resource
November 20, 2020In previous article Build a Google BigQuery Resource, we saw how to build a BigQuery resource, and then build a Google OAuth refresh token. In Part Two here, we’ll build an Azure SQL data resource, and then build, configure, and test the Azure Data Factory that will link the cloud resources we built.
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November 12, 2020Introduction
We can rely on Azure SQL to build reliable, high-quality relational database solutions. In the cloud, Google offers BigQuery as a big data product that has large data capacities, and a standard SQL syntax. Although it can handle data manipulation, it works better as a data warehouse product because of certain product limitations. If we can integrate these products, they become even more useful. This two-part article will show how to link these products together. Part one here will show how to build a BigQuery resource, and then build a Google OAuth refresh token, or security key. Part two will show how to set up an Azure SQL data resource, and build, configure, and test the Azure Data Factory that will link those resources.
Read more »Develop your extensions for Azure Data Studio
October 20, 2020Azure Data Studio (ADS) is a popular cross-platform (Windows, Linux) tool for database professionals. It provides various useful features such as T-SQL editor, Visualizations, insights, Peek definitions, Notebooks, Git integration, extensions and more. Extensions add new functionality in the ADS. Microsoft provides several useful extensions. We have already covered few useful extensions in the Azure Data Studio category on SQLShack.
Read more »Working with Git components in Azure Data Studio
July 9, 2020This article gives an insight into the terms in the Git repository of Azure Data Studio. In the previous articles, we learned the following things:
Read more »Integrating Azure Data Studio with Git and GitHub
July 3, 2020In the last article, Source Control using Git in Azure Data Studio (ADS), we explored the following topics:
- The requirement of Source control for SQL scripts
- Git installation on Windows
- Integrate Git in Azure Data Studio
- Create Git repository, add SQL scripts, modify files, commit into source control
- View different versions using the Git timelines
In this article, we will take a step forward and integrate Git installed locally on the GitHub.
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July 2, 2020Azure Data Studio is a tool for both developers and database administrators with exciting features. You can install ADS on both Windows and Linux platforms. You can go through various Azure Data Studio articles on SQLShack to be comfortable with the tool and its features.
Read more »The SQL Server Assessment Extension for Azure Data Studio
June 30, 2020Azure Data Studio extensions enable adding new functionality for development and administrative tasks. It is an open-source functionality and allows Microsoft as well as third party extensions using Marketplace. We explored a few useful extensions in the Azure Data Studio category of articles.
Read more »Digging deeper into Azure Data Studio: Extensions and Azure SQL DB Development
June 24, 2020In the previous articles listed below, we went through the Azure Data Studio tool, starting from the installation procedure, showing the purpose of each component, how to organize your connections, and develop the different types of SQL Server database objects using the interactive query editor in that data studio.
Read more »Digging deeper into Azure Data Studio: More code and less GUI
June 23, 2020In the previous two articles, Starting your journey with Azure Data Studio and Developing your SQL Server database using Azure Data Studio, we introduced the Azure Data Studio tool by describing the main components of that data studio and showed how we can take advantages from it in developing and organizing the database related projects.
Read more »Developing your SQL Server database using Azure Data Studio
June 22, 2020In the previous article, Starting your journey with Azure Data Studio, we put the first stone that helps you to be familiar with the Azure Data Studio and start using it to interact with your database objects.
Read more »Starting your journey with Azure Data Studio
June 19, 2020In this article, we will introduce the Azure Data Studio in a way that makes it easy for you to start using it. Enjoy the reading!
Read more »Server and Database dashboards in Azure Data Studio
May 14, 2020Azure Data Studio (ADS) is an integrated, lightweight database development for supporting both on-premises and cloud databases. It can be installed on Windows as well as Linux operating system. I am assuming you are familiar with the SQL Server Management Studio. If you work on Linux based SQL Server instance, you can install only ADS in those systems. We can use integrated terminals to execute the PowerShell and Terminal sessions for the Linux system.
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