2025-02-14 (first published: 2025-02-12)
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Azure Data Studio (ADS)
SQL Database Project in Azure Data Studio
Learn how to create and modify a database project in Azure Data Studio.
2025-02-10
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Diving Deeper into the Import Extension in Azure Data Studio
Azure Data Studio (ADS) is a lightweight IDE built...
2024-09-27
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2024-07-19
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Managing SQL Agent in Azure Data Studio
This article continues my series on ADS and examines the SQL Agent extension.
2024-05-17
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Database Dashboards in Azure Data Studio
Azure Data Studio (ADS) is a lightweight IDE built on Visual Studio Code. I've written a few articles on how the tool works, and this one continues the series. In this article, I want to look at the database dashboards and how you can customize them. The other articles in this series on ADS works […]
2024-05-03
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Server Dashboards in Azure Data Studio
Azure Data Studio (ADS) is a lightweight IDE built on Visual Studio Code. I've written a few articles on how the tool works, and this one continues the series. In this article, I want to look at the server and database dashboards and how you can customize them. Another article will cover the Database dashboards. […]
2024-03-28 (first published: 2024-01-29)
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The Profiler Extension in Azure Data Studio (ADS)
This article covers the basics of the Profiler extension in Azure Data Studio, a handy way to trace your application calls.
2024-03-25 (first published: 2023-12-29)
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Using the Import Extension in Azure Data Studio
Learn how this extension in Azure Data Studio makes it easy to import flat files in a CSV or JSON format.
2023-11-29
7,270 reads
Azure Data Studio - A First Look
See a first look at Azure Data Studio from Kenneth Igiri and read about his impressions.
2023-11-13
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Question of the Day
Creating JSON III
In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:
BeerIDBeerName 1Becks 2Fat Tire 3Mac n Jacks 4Alaskan Amber 8KirinI run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
What are the results? See possible answers