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Azure Data Studio 1.47 Now Available

Published 2023-11-09 by Kevin Feasel

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

Published 2023-08-08 by Kevin Feasel

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

Published 2023-05-26 by Kevin Feasel

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

Published 2023-04-03 by Kevin Feasel

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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Azure Data Studio 1.42 Released

Published 2023-03-23 by Kevin Feasel

Erin Stellato shows off what’s new in Azure Data Studio:

I just finished writing up the release notes for Azure Data Studio 1.42, and I cannot get over the amount of work the engineering team has completed since January.  Go big or go home.

For regular users of Azure Data Studio, we hope you are starting to experience the improvements we have been making in the application.  This continues with the 1.42 release, though we also found time to introduce new functionality as well. 

Read on for some of the highlights.

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Working with Remote Jupyter Books in Azure Data Studio

Published 2023-03-17 by Kevin Feasel

Steve Hughes reaches across the internet:

When working with Azure Data Studio and its support of Jupyter books, you will find there is an option for remote Jupyter books. As shown in the image below, you can open that Jupyter book and follow through the dialogue for a couple of Microsoft books that are readily available.

Click through to see how this option differs from standard Jupyter books (which are themselves different from Jupyter notebooks) and how you can create one.

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Azure Data Studio 1.41 Now Available

Published 2023-01-26 by Kevin Feasel

Erin Stellato has a bundle of updates for us:

The query results window got a fair bit of attention this release as we work through the backlog of open issues. First, we introduced a new configuration option to show or hide the action bar in the query results view. The Query Editor > Results: Show Action Bar option can be found in the command palette (CTRL + , ) if you type Show Action Bar. By default, the action bar is shown in the query results pane, as seen in the screenshot below:

Check out the full set of changes in the article.

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