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Azure Data Studio 1.48 Now Available

David Levy gives us the latest:

The February release of Azure Data Studio (version 1.48) includes several new features and enhancements, such as:

  • Support for restores from URLs, including S3-compatible storage, via the restore dialog
  • Query Editor now includes SPIDs in tab titles
  • You can now specify a connection when launching ADS from the command line
  • You can now enable Ledger when creating a database in the Create Database dialog

Read on for more about each of these topics.

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Cannot Create Property ‘groupid’ On String

Barney Lawrence fixes a problem in Azure Data Studio:


This is a solution to a bug I’ve encountered in Azure Data Studio when trying to create new connections. that leads to an error message of cannot create property ‘groupid’ on string ‘.

File this post under “things I couldn’t find a neat answer to in Google so I figure I’d best create a page for it”.

Read on for Barney’s answer as I lament how far downhill Google has gone as a search engine.

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Using Extended Events in Azure Data Studio

Josephine Bush tries it out:

I know I can use extended events (xevents) in Azure SQL DB when in SSMS, but I wanted to learn how to use them in Azure Data Studio (ADS).

Click through to see the normal workflow in SQL Server Management Studio, followed by the workflow in Azure Data Studio. I’d also recommend, at some point, finding good extended events sessions and saving the T-SQL to create them.

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Flat File Importation via Azure Data Studio

Josephine Bush needs to import a file:

Initially, I thought I would have to use sqlcmd because I’m on a Mac and don’t have SSMS. It turns out Azure Data Studio has a nifty way to import data from flat files – yay!

I’ve used this extension a few times in the past on Linux and Windows and it’s pretty good, especially if you have a fairly straightforward flat file. If it’s a messy file, you’ll still get inscrutable errors. And, as far as data sources go, GIGO.

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Using VS Code Extensions in Azure Data Studio

I have a quick tip blog post:

Something that a lot of people don’t know is, you can import some Visual Studio Code extensions into Azure Data Studio and have them work.

I emphasize the word “some” here because I have seen cases of extensions failing to install. I don’t know exactly why certain extensions fail or what percentage of them will work, so give it a whirl and see what you get.

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Azure Data Studio 1.47 Now Available

David Levy announces a new release of Azure Data Studio:

Another change that is sure to be noticed is that we have enabled parallel message processing by default. This change will improve the performance of the application when connected to SQL Server data sources. We have introduced two new settings to manage this new behavior. The first setting, Mssql: Parallel Message Processing is set to true by default. The other setting, Mssql: Parallel Message Processing Limit, has a default of 100. This setting controls the number of threads used for parallel processing. We are excited to hear your impressions on the impact of this change.

Read on for the full list of changes.

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Azure Data Studio 1.45 Released

Erin Stellato gives us an update:

In this release we updated to VS Code version 1.79.2, from version 1.70, bringing ADS nearly current with VS Code.  Keeping up with VS Code is an artifact of Azure Data Studio being a fork of VS Code, and the team accomplished a major feat with this latest merge.  Many of the changes are not immediately obvious to users, but there are improvements across security, performance, and the application interface.

Read on for the highlights.

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Azure Data Studio 1.44 Released

Erin Stellato has an update for us:

It seems like just last week we were just releasing Azure Data Studio 1.43 (oh wait, that was last month) and here we are announcing Azure Data Studio 1.44!

This release comes in the midst of Microsoft Build, where numerous Copilot-adjacent announcements have been shared for different applications.  We are excited to announce that the GitHub Copilot extension is now available in the extension gallery with the Azure Data Studio 1.44 release!  For complete details and some examples, please see Drew’s post, Introducing GitHub Copilot for Azure Data Studio.

Click through for what’s new.

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April Tools Day

Erin Stellato dispels some myths:

Myth #1 Azure Data Studio is the only standalone solution now that SSMS is deprecated.

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is not deprecated.  We thought about writing that in ALL CAPS, but figured bold is sufficient.  SSMS has not been deprecated, and we are not planning on deprecating it.  You will see new functionality being added to Azure Data Studio, but we have a fair number of things lined up for SSMS, including migration to the Visual Studio 2022 shell, which brings 64-bit support.

Bold plus all caps might have been a bit too much, yeah.

Click through to see what’s happening in the world of SQL Server tooling from Microsoft.

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