Managing SQL Agent in Azure Data Studio

This article continues my series on ADS and examines the SQL Agent extension.

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 […]

Exporting and Importing Registered Servers in SSMS

This article shows how to import and export a list of registered servers from SSMS.

A First Look at SSMS 20

Recently Microsoft released SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v20.0, which is a major release of the primary tool that many of us use to work with SQL Server. Over the last few years, the tools team at Microsoft has worked to separate the tools from the various editions, giving us separate SSMS downloads. There have […]

Building a BacPac

How Often Do You Update SSMS?

I got a message recently that SSM S19.3 is out. I am wary of major versions, especially with a few add-in tools, but I have tended to try and update SSMS regularly when it patches, which is about once a quarter. As I checked my desktop, I saw I was still on 19.1 (my laptop […]

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. […]

Getting a Schema Copy

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.

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.