Contents

Azure Data Studio

Install
Release notes
Quickstarts
Connect & query SQL Server
Connect & query Azure SQL Database
Connect & query Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Tutorials
T-SQL Editor
Sample insight: slow queries
Sample insight: table space usage
Build a custom insight
Backup and restore
How-to guides
Dashboards & insight widgets
Code snippets
Integrated terminal (PowerShell, Bash)
Keyboard shortcuts
Explorer Azure SQL resources
Server groups
Source control
Workspace & user settings
Windows authentication (Kerberos)
Usage data collection
Extensions
Overview
SQL Server 2019 (preview)
SQL Server Agent (preview)
SQL Server Import (preview)
 SQL Server Profiler (preview)
Extension Authoring
Extensibility overview
Extension authoring
Create an extension
Extensibility APIs
Resources
Transact-SQL Reference
Azure Data Studio GitHub repo
SQL Server Blog
FAQ
Report issues & make suggestions
 What is Azure Data Studio?
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Azure Data Studio is a cross-platform database tool for data professionals using the Microsoft family of on-
premises and cloud data platforms on Windows, MacOS, and Linux.
Previously released under the preview name SQL Operations Studio, Azure Data Studio offers a modern editor
experience with Intellisense, code snippets, source control integration, and an integrated terminal. It is engineered
with the data platform user in mind, with built in charting of query result sets and customizable dashboards.
Download and Install Azure Data Studio

Transact-SQL (T-SQL) code editor with IntelliSense

Azure Data Studio offers a modern, keyboard-focused T-SQL coding experience that makes your everyday tasks
easier with built-in features, such as multiple tab windows, a rich T-SQL editor, IntelliSense, keyword completion,
code snippets, code navigation, and source control integration (Git). Run on-demand T-SQL queries, view and save
results as text, JSON, or Excel. Edit data, organize your favorite database connections, and browse database objects
in a familiar object browsing experience. To learn how to use the T-SQL editor, see Use the T-SQL editor to create
database objects.

Smart T-SQL code snippets

T-SQL code snippets generate the proper T-SQL syntax to create databases, tables, views, stored procedures,
users, logins, roles, etc., and to update existing database objects. Use smart snippets to quickly create copies of your
database for development or testing purposes, and to generate and execute CREATE and INSERT scripts.
Azure Data Studio also provides functionality to create custom T-SQL code snippets. To learn more, see Create and
use code snippets.

Customizable Server and Database Dashboards

Create rich customizable dashboards to monitor and quickly troubleshoot performance bottlenecks in your
databases. To learn about insight widgets, and database (and server) dashboards, see Manage servers and
databases with insight widgets.

Connection management (server groups)

Server groups provide a way to organize connection information for the servers and databases you work with. For
details, see Server groups.

Integrated Terminal
Use your favorite command-line tools (for example, Bash, PowerShell, sqlcmd, bcp, and ssh) in the Integrated
Terminal window right within the Azure Data Studio user interface. To learn about the integrated terminal, see
Integrated terminal.

Extensibility and extension authoring

Enhance the Azure Data Studio experience by extending the functionality of the base installation. Azure Data
Studio provides extensibility points for data management activities, as well as support for extension authoring.
To learn about extensibility in Azure Data Studio, see Extensibility. To learn about authoring extensions, see
Extension authoring.

Next steps
Download and Install Azure Data Studio
Connect and query SQL Server
Connect and query Azure SQL Database
 Download and install Azure Data Studio
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Azure Data Studio runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Download and install the latest release, the September GA Release:

NOTE
If you're updating from SQL Operations Studio and want to keep your settings, keyboard shortcuts, or code snippets, see
Move user settings.

PLATFORM DOWNLOAD RELEASE DATE VERSION

Windows Installer September 24, 2018 1.0

.zip

macOS .zip September 24, 2018 1.0

Linux .deb September 24, 2018 1.0

.rpm
.tar.gz

For details about the latest release, see the release notes.

Get Azure Data Studio for Windows

This release of Azure Data Studio includes a standard Windows installer experience, and a .zip:
Installer
1. Download and run the Azure Data Studio installer for Windows.
2. Start the Azure Data Studio app.
.zip file
1. Download Azure Data Studio .zip for Windows.
2. Browse to the downloaded file and extract it.
3. Run \azuredatastudio-windows\azuredatastudio.exe

Get Azure Data Studio for macOS

1. Download Azure Data Studio for macOS.
2. To expand the contents of the zip, double-click it.
3. To make Azure Data Studio available in the Launchpad, drag Azure Data Studio.app to the Applications folder.

Get Azure Data Studio for Linux

1. Download Azure Data Studio for Linux by using one of the installers or the tar.gz archive:
.deb
.rpm
 .tar.gz
2. To extract the file and launch Azure Data Studio, open a new Terminal window and type the following
commands:
Debian Installation:

cd ~
sudo dpkg -i ./Downloads/azuredatastudio-linux-<version string>.deb

azuredatastudio

rpm Installation:

cd ~
yum install ./Downloads/azuredatastudio-linux-<version string>.rpm

azuredatastudio

tar.gz Installation:

cd ~
cp ~/Downloads/azuredatastudio-linux-<version string>.tar.gz ~
tar -xvf ~/azuredatastudio-linux-<version string>.tar.gz
echo 'export PATH="$PATH:~/azuredatastudio-linux-x64"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
azuredatastudio

NOTE
On Debian, Redhat, and Ubuntu, you may have missing dependencies. Use the following commands to install these
dependencies depending on your version of Linux:

Debian:

sudo apt-get install libunwind8

Redhat:

yum install libXScrnSaver

Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install libxss1

sudo apt-get install libgconf-2-4

sudo apt-get install libunwind8

Uninstall Azure Data Studio

If you installed Azure Data Studio using the Windows installer, then uninstall the same way you remove any
Windows application.
If you installed Azure Data Studio with a .zip or other archive, then simply delete the files.

Supported Operating Systems

Azure Data Studio runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, and is supported on the following platforms:
Windows
Windows 10 (64-bit)
Windows 8.1 (64-bit)
Windows 8 (64-bit)
Windows 7 (SP1) (64-bit) - Requires KB2533623
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2012 R2 (64-bit)
Windows Server 2012 (64-bit)
Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit)
macOS
macOS 10.13 High Sierra
macOS 10.12 Sierra
Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server v12 SP2
Ubuntu 16.04

Check for updates

To check for latest updates, click the gear icon on the bottom left of the window and click Check for Updates

Move user settings

If you want to move your custom settings, keyboard shortcuts, or code snippets, follow the steps below. This is
important to do if you are upgrading from SQL Operations Studio version to Azure Data Studio.
If you already have Azure Data Studio, or you've never installed or customized SQL Operations Studio, then you
can ignore this section.
1. Open Settings by clicking the gear on the bottom left and clicking Settings.
2. Right-click the User Settings tab on top and click Reveal in Explorer

3. Copy all files in this folder and save in an easy to find location on your local drive, like your Documents
folder.

4. In your new version of Azure Data Studio, follow steps 1-2, then for step 3 paste the contents you saved
into the folder. You can also manually copy over the settings, keybindings, or snippets in their respective
locations.
Next Steps
See one of the following quickstarts to get started:
Connect & Query SQL Server
Connect & Query Azure SQL Database
Connect & Query Azure Data Warehouse
Contribute to Azure Data Studio:
https://github.com/Microsoft/azuredatastudio
Microsoft Privacy Statement and usage data collection.
 Azure Data Studio release notes
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Download the September General Availability (GA ) Release!

September 2018 (September GA Release)

release date: September 24, 2018
version: 1.0
General Availability release of Azure Data Studio (formerly SQL Operations Studio).
Announcing the SQL Server 2019 Preview extension.
Support for SQL Server 2019 preview features including big data cluster support.
Connect to the HDFS/Spark Gateway shipped with SQL Server 2019 preview.
Browse HDFS, upload files, save files, and launch useful actions such as Analyze in Notebook for
CSV files.
Submit Spark jobs from the dashboard or right-click on a HDFS/Spark connection in Object
Explorer.
Azure Data Studio Notebooks
Create or open Notebooks using an integrated Notebook viewer. In this release the Notebook
viewer supports connecting to local kernels and the SQL Server 2019 big data cluster only.
Use the PROSE Code Accelerator libraries in your Notebook to learn file format and data types
for fast data preparation.
Azure Resource Explorer
The Azure Resource Explorer view lets you browse data-related endpoints for your Azure
accounts and create connections to them in Object Explorer. In this release Azure SQL Databases
and servers are supported.
SQL Server Polybase Create External Table Wizard
Create an external table and its supporting metadata structures with an easy to use wizard. In this
release, remote SQL Server and Oracle servers are supported.
Query Results Grid performance and UX improvements for large number of result sets.
Visual Studio Code source code refresh from 1.23 to 1.26.1 with Grid Layout and Improved Settings Editor
(preview ).
Accessibility improvements for screen reader, keyboard navigation and high-contrast.
Added Connection name option to provide an alternative display name in the Servers view -let.
Bug Fixes
Fix issue #2647: The charts took a big step backwards.
Fix issue #2648: SELECT that returns a JSON hyperlinks the whole column.
...
For detailed information, see the Change Log, and Releases.

August 2018 (August Public Preview)

release date: August 30, 2018
version: 0.32.8
0.32.8 contains fixes for a couple regressions found in 0.32.7 (#1971, #2372)
The August Public Preview focuses on on bug fixes, product stabilization, and filling gaps in existing scenarios.
Announcing the SQL Server Import Extension
SQL Server Profiler Session management
SQL Server Profiler session template support
SQL Server Agent improvements
New community extension: First responder kit
Quality of Life improvements: Connection strings
Bug Fixes
Parse SQL in a Query Editor window by using the Parse Syntax command.
Fix issue #143: Double-click not selecting @ in variable name.
Fix issue #387: SQL Tab DB Icon is red.
Fix issue #825: Request: Auto Connect to current server after Script as...
Fix issue #1278: sqlops.desktop [Desktop Entry] - redundant value for Name & Comment.
Fix issue #1285: Updating causes application icon to be removed/replaced in Windows.
Fix issue #1317: Fix the decimal separator.
Fix issue #1474: Cancel change connection disconnects current connection.
Fix issue #1497: View as Chart options are cut off at the bottom.
Fix issue #1524: Shell/Dashboard: Main viewlet icons are draggable and can crash the app.
Fix issue #1578: Not able to expand/collapse remote file browser folder by clicking name.
Fix issue #1620: Feature Suggestion: Get Connection String for existing connection.
Fix issue #1624: SelectBox doesn't change color when disabled.
Fix issue #1728: Save as JSON/EXCEL/CSV not work.
Fix issue #1744: Results pane loses its scrolling positions when switching between tabs.
Fix issue #1748: Error message when saving Excel file second (and subsequent) time.
Fix issue #1782: Edit data: cell doesn't revert to original value on hitting Escape key.
Fix issue #1836: .sql files not associated with SQL Operations Studio.
Fix issue #1850: Typing N'' autocompletes to N'''.
Fix issue #1985: Copy from query results grid is off by 1 column.
Fix issue #1998: Add VS Code version to About dialog.
Fix issue #2042: Agent: Enabled button to import queries from sql files.
Fix issue #2091: Can't use Ctrl+C shortcut to copy from result pane.
Fix issue #2099: Added more saveAsCsv options.
Fix issue #2107: Update document icon for Dashboard and Profiler documents.
Fix issue #2129: Save edit data scroll position when switching tabs.
Fix issue #2152: Results Grid Row Indicator Zero Based.

Known Issues
Issue #2371 Save As Excel Only Saves First Row of Data
Issue #2150: Unable to connect on Ubuntu 16.04 to SQL in a container

July 2018 (July Public Preview)

release date: July 19, 2018
version: 0.31.4
The July Public Preview focuses on the initial release of the SQL Server Agent configuration scenarios, SQL Server
Profiler session and view template enhancements, and continued bug fixes for customer reported GitHub issues.
This release contains the following highlights:
SQL Server Agent for SQL Operations Studio extension improvements
Added view of Alerts, Operators, and Proxies and icons on left pane
Added dialogs for New Job, New Job Step, New Alert, and New Operator
Added Delete Job, Delete Alert, and Delete Operator (right-click)
Added Previous Runs visualization
Added Filters for each column name
SQL Server Profiler for SQL Operations Studio extension improvements
Added Hotkeys to quickly launch and start/stop Profiler
Added 5 Default Templates to view Extended Events
Added Server/Database connection name
Added support for Azure SQL Database instances
Added suggestion to exit Profiler when tab is closed when Profiler is still running
Release of Combine Scripts Extension
Wizard and Dialog Extensibility points added for Extension Authors
Fix GitHub Issues:
Fix issue 728: No response to Add Connection on macOS
Fix issue 1612: Results grid text display is messed up by international characters
Fix issue 1693: Backup dialog: File browser UI is broken
Fix issue 1713: Number of rows affected
Fix issue 1718: Unable to connect to any datasource
Fix issue 1719: TypeError when Connecting to Server
Fix issue 1724: Extension dialogs have stopped working
Fix issue 1749: BUG: HTML data in a column gets interpreted
Fix issue 1789: Extensibility: if you add a connection provider uninstall will never remove it from the list
Fix issue 1791: Sqlops Extensions: queryeditor.connect() connects to the target database, but UI does not
show the editor is connected
Fix issue 1799: Top 10 DB Size chart does not work on case sensitive instances
Fix issue 1814: sqlops.d.ts typo causing implicit 'any' type definition
Fix issue 1817: Error de Ortografia
Fix issue 1830: Setting iconPath in ButtonComponent after component() is called does not change icon
Fix issue 1843: Better Table organization

June 2018 (June Public Preview)

release date: June 20, 2018
version: 0.30.6
The June Public Preview contains the following highlights:
SQL Server Profiler for SQL Operations Studio *Preview* extension initial release.
The new SQL Data Warehouse extension includes rich customizable dashboard widgets surfacing insights to
your data warehouse. This unlocks key scenarios around managing and tuning your data warehouse to ensure
it is optimized for consistent performance.
Edit Data "Filtering and Sorting" support.
SQL Server Agent for SQL Operations Studio *Preview* extension enhancements for Jobs and Job History
views.
 Improved Wizard & Dialog UI Builder Framework extensibility APIs.
Update VS Code Platform source code integrating March 2018 (1.22) and April 2018 (1.23) releases.
Fix GitHub Issues:
Feature request (issue 1204): Please make the results grid auto-fit column width to data, and/or
remember manual changes if the same query is re-run.
Fix issue 1398: Should show add message and add account account button when linked account is
empty.
Fix issue 1399: Linked account tab is broken when the view is collapsed.
Fix issue 1374: SQL Tools Service crashes when opening .sql file from disk.
Fix issue 1372: Missing SQL keyword "BETWEEN".
Fix issue 1395: 'MATCH' keyword crashes SQL Tools Service.
Fix issue 1496: "New Profiler" context menu option in Object Explorer does nothing.
Fix issue 1495: Query editor "Explain" query plan is broken.

May 2018 (May Public Preview)

release date: May 7, 2018
version: 0.29.3
The May Public Preview is focused on stabilization and bug fixes. This build contains the following highlights:
Announcing Redgate SQL Search extension available in Extension Manager.
Community Localization available for 10 languages: German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
Reduced telemetry collection, improved opt-out experience and in-product links to Privacy Statement.
Extension Manager has improved Marketplace experience to easily discover community extensions.
SQL Agent extension Jobs and Job History view improvement.
Updates for whoisactive and Server Reports extensions.
Improve Manage Dashboard Properties scrolling.
Fix GitHub Issues:
Fix issue 703: Entering HTML -like text in edit data causes value to display incorrectly until refresh
Fix issue 821: azuredatastudio.deb package dependency
Fix issue 1260: Keyword 'distinct' not highlighted
Fix issue 1332: Edit data revert row doesn't work
Fix issue 1215: SQL Agent extension and the status bar
Fix issue 1316: SQL Agent Don´t resize after change windows size

April 2018 (April Public Preview)

release date: April 25, 2018
version: 0.28.6
The April Public Preview contains bug fixes and improvements.
Improvements to the SQL Agent Preview extension.
Improved large and protected file support for saving Admin protected and >256M files within SQL Operations
Studio.
Integrated Terminal splitting to work with multiple open terminals at once.
Reduced installation on-disk file count foot print for faster installs and startup times.
Continue to fix GitHub issues:
Fix issue 37: When the chart viewer throws an error, unexpected behavior occurs.
 Fix issue 462: Feature Request: Option for Server Groups to be expanded by default.
Fix issue 606: intellisense - Bad suggestion for 'update' command.
Fix issue 967: Expect query plan when select XML showplan in the result grid.
Fix issue 1023: Add square brackets for ms_foreachdb call from flyfishingdba.
Fix issue 1048: Pre-login SSL/TLS handshake error.
Fix issue 1050: Clear insights view before showing error.
Fix issue 1057: Restore and new query actions in explorer-widget are broken.
Fix issue 1068: Dashboard Output windows pops-up with error message for Azure SQL Database.
Fix issue 1069: Connection Dialog shows Server Required error when initially displayed.
Fix issue 1070: Server Groups now require a double-click to expand.
Fix issue 1072: Select control background is semi-transparent.
Fix issue 1115: Fix all high contrast accessibility issues in SQL Operations Studio.
Fix issue 1101: Extension fails to upgrade "Download Manually" link goes to wrong location.
Fix issue 1103: V Scroll not working on Home Tab.
Fix issue 1104: SQL extension tabs stopped working.
A significant highlight for the April Public Preview is the Visual Studio Code 1.21 platform source code refresh.
This brings in several updates to the core editor and workbench from the previous 1.19 sync point. Some examples
include the following:
New Notifications UI - Easily manage and review SQL Operations Studio notifications.
Integrated Terminal splitting - Work with multiple open terminals at once.
Save large and protected files - Save Admin protected and >256M files within SQL Operations Studio.
Improved large file support - Text buffer optimizations for large files.
Improved Settings search - Easily find the right setting with natural language search.
Global snippets - Create snippets you can use across all file types.
Explorer multi-selection - Perform actions on multiple files at once.
Errors & warnings in Explorer - Quickly navigate to errors in your code base.
Drag & drop, copy & paste across windows - Move files across open SQL Operations Studio windows.
Git submodule support - Perform Git operations on nested Git repositories.
Terminal screen reader support - Integrated Terminal now has "Screen Reader Optimized" mode.
Centered editor layout - Maximize your code viewing screen real estate.
Horizontal search results (preview ) - You can now view search results in a horizontal panel.
For additional details, checkout the Visual Studio Code February Release Notes, and the Visual Studio Code
January Release Notes.
For more information, see the Change Log.

March 2018 (March Public Preview)

release date: March 28, 2018
version: 0.27.3
The March Public Preview continues to address the top GitHub issues and is focused on improving our
extensibility story. Specifically enabling Extension Manager, improving dashboard management, and providing
SQL Agent and insights extensions. This release includes the following enhancements:
Enhance the dashboard extensibility model to support tabbed insights and configuration panes.
Extension Manager enables simple acquisition of extensions.
Dashboard extensions for sp_whoisactive from whoisactive.com.
 For details, see Extend the functionality of SQL Operations Studio.
Add additional extensibility APIs for connection and object explorer management.
Continue to fix important customer impacting GitHub issues.

February 2018 (February Public Preview)

release date: February 15, 2018
version: 0.26.7
The February Public Preview includes some feature suggestions and high-priority bug fixes. This release includes
the following enhancements:
Introducing Auto-Update Installation, which provides a notification when a new release is available to
download
The Connection Dialog 'Database' field is now a dynamically populated drop-down list that will contain a list of
databases populated from the specified server.
Fix issue 6: Keep connection and selected database when opening new query tabs.
Fix issue 22: 'Server Name' and 'Database Name' - Can these be drop downs instead of text boxes?
Fix issue 549: Silent/Very Silent Install results in application opening after installation.
Fix issue 481: Add "Check for updates" option.
SQL Editor colorization and auto-completion fixes:
Fix issue 584: Keyword "FULL" not highlighted by IntelliSense.
Fix issue 345: Colorize SQL functions within the editor.
Fix issue 300: [#tempData] latest "]" will display green color.
Fix issue 225: Keyword color mismatch.
Fix issue 60: Invalid sql syntax color highlighting when using temporary table in from clause.
Introduce Connection extensibility API.
VS Code Editor 1.19 integration.
Update JustinPealing/html-query-plan component to pick-up several Query Plan viewer improvements.

January 2018 (January Public Preview)

release date: January 17, 2018
version: 0.25.4
The January Public Preview includes some feature suggestions and high-priority bug fixes. This release includes
the following enhancements:
Saved Server connections are available in the Connection Dialog.
Enable Hot exit. Hot exit is off by default, to enable see Hot exit setting.
Tab-coloring based on Server Group. Tab coloring is off by default, to enable see Tab color setting.
Change Server name to Server in the Connection Dialog.
Fix broken Run Current Query command.
Fix drag-and-drop breaking scripting bug.
Fix incorrect pinned Start Menu icon.
Fix missing Azure Account branding icon.

December 2017 (December Public Preview)

release date: December 19, 2017
version: 0.24.1
The December Public Preview includes several bugs fixes across all feature areas, as well as the following
enhancements:
Create Firewall Rule Dialog is now available to assist connecting to Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Data
Warehouse.
Added Windows Setup, and Linux DEB and RPM installation packages.
Manage Dashboard visual layout editor.
Script As Alter and Script As Execute commands.
Run Current Query with Actual Plan command.
Integrate VS Code 1.18.1 editor platform.
Enable Sideloading of VSIX Extension files.
Support "GO N" batch iteration syntax.

November 2017
release date: November 15, 2017
version: 0.23.6
Initial release of Azure Data Studio.

Next Steps
See one of the following quickstarts to get started:
Connect & Query SQL Server
Connect & Query Azure SQL Database
Connect & Query Azure Data Warehouse
Contribute to Azure Data Studio:
https://github.com/Microsoft/azuredatastudio
 Quickstart: Connect and query SQL Server using
Azure Data Studio
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This quickstart shows how to use Azure Data Studio to connect to SQL Server, and then use Transact-SQL (T-
SQL ) statements to create the TutorialDB used in Azure Data Studio tutorials.

Prerequisites
To complete this quickstart, you need Azure Data Studio, and access to a SQL Server.
Install Azure Data Studio.
If you don't have access to a SQL Server, select your platform from the following links (make sure you remember
your SQL Login and Password!):
Windows - Download SQL Server 2017 Developer Edition
macOS - Download SQL Server 2017 on Docker
Linux - Download SQL Server 2017 Developer Edition - You only need to follow the steps up to Create and
Query Data.

Connect to a SQL Server

1. Start Azure Data Studio.
2. The first time you run Azure Data Studio the Connection dialog opens. If the Connection dialog doesn't
open, click the New Connection icon in the SERVERS page:
3. This article uses SQL Login, but Windows Authentication is supported. Fill in the fields as follows:
Server Name: localhost
Authentication Type: SQL Login
User name: User name for the SQL Server
Password: Password for the SQL Server
Database Name: leave this field blank
Server Group: <Default>

Create a database
The following steps create a database named TutorialDB:
1. Right click on your server, localhost, and select New Query.
2. Paste the following snippet into the query window:

USE master
GO
IF NOT EXISTS (
SELECT name
FROM sys.databases
WHERE name = N'TutorialDB'
)
CREATE DATABASE [TutorialDB]
GO

ALTER DATABASE [TutorialDB] SET QUERY_STORE=ON

GO

3. To execute the query, click Run .

After the query completes, the new TutorialDB appears in the list of databases. If you don't see it, right-click the
Databases node and select Refresh.

Create a table
The query editor is still connected to the master database, but we want to create a table in the TutorialDB
database.
1. Change the connection context to TutorialDB:

2. Paste the following snippet into the query window and click Run:

NOTE
You can append this to, or overwrite the previous query in the editor. Note that clicking Run executes only the
query that is selected. If nothing is selected, clicking Run executes all queries in the editor.

-- Create a new table called 'Customers' in schema 'dbo'

-- Drop the table if it already exists
IF OBJECT_ID('dbo.Customers', 'U') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE dbo.Customers
GO
-- Create the table in the specified schema
CREATE TABLE dbo.Customers
(
CustomerId INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, -- primary key column
Name [NVARCHAR](50) NOT NULL,
Location [NVARCHAR](50) NOT NULL,
Email [NVARCHAR](50) NOT NULL
);
GO

After the query completes, the new Customers table appears in the list of tables. You might need to right-click
the TutorialDB > Tables node and select Refresh.

Insert rows
Paste the following snippet into the query window and click Run:
 -- Insert rows into table 'Customers'
INSERT INTO dbo.Customers
([CustomerId],[Name],[Location],[Email])
VALUES
( 1, N'Orlando', N'Australia', N''),
( 2, N'Keith', N'India', N'[email protected]'),
( 3, N'Donna', N'Germany', N'[email protected]'),
( 4, N'Janet', N'United States', N'[email protected]')
GO

View the data returned by a query

1. Paste the following snippet into the query window and click Run:

-- Select rows from table 'Customers'

SELECT * FROM dbo.Customers;

2. The results of the query are displayed:

Next steps
Now that you've successfully connected to SQL Server and run a query, try out the Code editor tutorial.
 Quickstart: Use Azure Data Studio to connect and
query Azure SQL database
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This quickstart demonstrates how to use Azure Data Studio to connect to an Azure SQL database, and then use
Transact-SQL (T-SQL ) statements to create the TutorialDB used in Azure Data Studio tutorials.

Prerequisites
To complete this quickstart, you need Azure Data Studio, and an Azure SQL server.
Install Azure Data Studio.
If you don't already have an Azure SQL server, complete one of the following Azure SQL Database quickstarts
(remember the server name, and login credentials!):
Create DB - Portal
Create DB - CLI
Create DB - PowerShell

Connect to your Azure SQL Database server

Use Azure Data Studio to establish a connection to your Azure SQL Database server.
1. The first time you run Azure Data Studio the Connection page should open. If you don't see the
Connection page, click Add Connection, or the New Connection icon in the SERVERS sidebar:

2. This article uses SQL Login, but Windows Authentication is also supported. Fill in the fields as follows
 using the server name, user name, and password for your Azure SQL server:

SETTING SUGGESTED VALUE DESCRIPTION

Server name The fully qualified server name The name should be something like
this:
servername.database.windows.ne
t

Authentication SQL Login SQL Authentication is used in this

tutorial.

User name The server admin account This is the account that you specified
when you created the server.

Password (SQL Login) The password for your server admin This is the password that you
account specified when you created the
server.

Save Password? Yes or No Select Yes if you do not want to

enter the password each time.

Database name leave blank The name of the database you want
to connect to.

Server Group Select If you created a server group, you

can set to a specific server group.

3. If your server doesn't have a firewall rule allowing Azure Data Studio to connect, the Create new firewall
rule form opens. Complete the form to create a new firewall rule. For details, see Firewall rules.
4. After successfully connecting your server opens in the Servers sidebar.

Create the tutorial database

The following sections create the TutorialDB database that is used in several Azure Data Studio tutorials.
1. Right click on your Azure SQL server in the SERVERS sidebar and select New Query.
2. Paste the following snippet into the query editor and click Run:

IF NOT EXISTS (
SELECT name
FROM sys.databases
WHERE name = N'TutorialDB'
)
CREATE DATABASE [TutorialDB]
GO

ALTER DATABASE [TutorialDB] SET QUERY_STORE=ON

GO

Create a table
The query editor is still connected to the master database, but we want to create a table in the TutorialDB
database.
1. Change the connection context to TutorialDB:
2. Paste the following snippet into the query editor and click Run:

NOTE
You can append this to, or overwrite the previous query in the editor. Note that clicking Run executes only the
query that is selected. If nothing is selected, clicking Run executes all queries in the editor.

-- Create a new table called 'Customers' in schema 'dbo'

-- Drop the table if it already exists
IF OBJECT_ID('dbo.Customers', 'U') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE dbo.Customers
GO
-- Create the table in the specified schema
CREATE TABLE dbo.Customers
(
CustomerId INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, -- primary key column
Name [NVARCHAR](50) NOT NULL,
Location [NVARCHAR](50) NOT NULL,
Email [NVARCHAR](50) NOT NULL
);
GO

Insert rows
Paste the following snippet into the query editor and click Run:

-- Insert rows into table 'Customers'

INSERT INTO dbo.Customers
([CustomerId],[Name],[Location],[Email])
VALUES
( 1, N'Orlando', N'Australia', N''),
( 2, N'Keith', N'India', N'[email protected]'),
( 3, N'Donna', N'Germany', N'[email protected]'),
( 4, N'Janet', N'United States', N'[email protected]')
GO

View the result

1. Paste the following snippet into the query editor and click Run:

-- Select rows from table 'Customers'

SELECT * FROM dbo.Customers;

2. The results of the query are displayed:

Clean up resources
Other articles in this collection build upon this quickstart. If you plan to continue on to work with subsequent
quickstarts, do not clean up the resources created in this quickstart. If you do not plan to continue, use the
following steps to delete resources created by this quickstart in the Azure portal. Clean up resources by deleting
the resource groups you no longer need. For details, see Clean up resources.

Next steps
Now that you've successfully connected to an Azure SQL database and ran a query, try out the Code editor
tutorial.
 Quickstart: Use Azure Data Studio to connect and
query data in Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9/24/2018 • 3 minutes to read • Edit Online

This quickstart demonstrates how to use Azure Data Studio to connect to Azure SQL data warehouse, and then
use Transact-SQL statements to create, insert, and select data.

Prerequisites
To complete this quickstart, you need Azure Data Studio, and an Azure SQL data warehouse.
Install Azure Data Studio.
If you don't already have a SQL data warehouse, see Create a SQL Data Warehouse.
Remember the server name, and login credentials!

Connect to your data warehouse

Use Azure Data Studio to establish a connection to your Azure SQL Data Warehouse server.
1. The first time you run Azure Data Studio the Connection page should open. If you don't see the
Connection page, click Add Connection, or the New Connection icon in the SERVERS sidebar:

2. This article uses SQL Login, but Windows Authentication is also supported. Fill in the fields as follows using
 the server name, user name, and password for your Azure SQL server:

SETTING SUGGESTED VALUE DESCRIPTION

Server name The fully qualified server name The name should be something like
this:
sqldwsample.database.windows.n
et

Authentication SQL Login SQL Authentication is used in this

tutorial.

User name The server admin account This is the account that you specified
when you created the server.

Password (SQL Login) The password for your server admin This is the password that you
account specified when you created the
server.

Save Password? Yes or No Select Yes if you do not want to enter

the password each time.

Database name leave blank The name of the database to which

to connect.

Server Group Select If you created a server group, you

can set to a specific server group.

3. If your server doesn't have a firewall rule allowing Azure Data Studio to connect, the Create new firewall
rule form opens. Complete the form to create a new firewall rule. For details, see Firewall rules.
4. After successfully connecting your server opens in the Servers sidebar.

Create the tutorial data warehouse

1. Right click on your server, in the object explorer and select New Query.
2. Paste the following snippet into the query editor and click Run:

IF NOT EXISTS (
SELECT name
FROM sys.databases
WHERE name = N'TutorialDB'
)
CREATE DATABASE [TutorialDB] (EDITION = 'datawarehouse', SERVICE_OBJECTIVE='DW100');
GO

ALTER DATABASE [TutorialDB] SET QUERY_STORE=ON

GO

Create a table
The query editor is still connected to the master database, but we want to create a table in the TutorialDB
database.
1. Change the connection context to TutorialDB:
2. Paste the following snippet into the query editor and click Run:

NOTE
You can append this to, or overwrite the previous query in the editor. Note that clicking Run executes only the query
that is selected. If nothing is selected, clicking Run executes all queries in the editor.

-- Create a new table called 'Customers' in schema 'dbo'

-- Drop the table if it already exists
IF OBJECT_ID('dbo.Customers', 'U') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE dbo.Customers
GO
-- Create the table in the specified schema
CREATE TABLE dbo.Customers
(
CustomerId INT NOT NULL,
Name [NVARCHAR](50) NOT NULL,
Location [NVARCHAR](50) NOT NULL,
Email [NVARCHAR](50) NOT NULL
);
GO

Insert rows
1. Paste the following snippet into the query editor and click Run:

-- Insert rows into table 'Customers'

INSERT INTO dbo.Customers
([CustomerId],[Name],[Location],[Email])
SELECT 1, N'Orlando',N'Australia', N'' UNION ALL
SELECT 2, N'Keith', N'India', N'[email protected]' UNION ALL
SELECT 3, N'Donna', N'Germany', N'[email protected]' UNION ALL
SELECT 4, N'Janet', N'United States', N'[email protected]'

View the result

1. Paste the following snippet into the query editor and click Run:
 -- Select rows from table 'Customers'
SELECT * FROM dbo.Customers;

2. The results of the query are displayed:

Clean up resources
Other articles in this collection build upon this quickstart. If you plan to continue on to work with subsequent
quickstarts, do not clean up the resources created in this quickstart. If you do not plan to continue, use the
following steps to delete resources created by this quickstart in the Azure portal. Clean up resources by deleting
the resource groups you no longer need. For details, see Clean up resources.

Next steps
Now that you've successfully connected to an Azure SQL data warehouse and ran a query, try out the Code editor
tutorial.
 Tutorial: Use the Transact-SQL editor to create
database objects - Azure Data Studio
9/24/2018 • 5 minutes to read • Edit Online

Creating and running queries, stored procedures, scripts, etc. are the core tasks of database professionals. This
tutorial demonstrates the key features in the T-SQL editor to create database objects.
In this tutorial, you learn how to use Azure Data Studio to:
Search database objects
Edit table data
Use snippets to quickly write T-SQL
View database object details using Peek Definition and Go to Definition

Prerequisites
This tutorial requires the SQL Server or Azure SQL Database TutorialDB. To create the TutorialDB database,
complete one of the following quickstarts:
Connect and query SQL Server using Azure Data Studio
Connect and query Azure SQL Database using Azure Data Studio

Quickly locate a database object and perform a common task

Azure Data Studio provides a search widget to quickly find database objects. The results list provides a context
menu for common tasks relevant to the selected object, such as Edit Data for a table.
1. Open the SERVERS sidebar (Ctrl+G), expand Databases, and select TutorialDB.
2. Open the TutorialDB Dashboard by right-clicking TutorialDB and selecting Manage from the context
menu:

3. On the dashboard, right-click dbo.Customers (in the search widget) and select Edit Data.
 TIP
For databases with many objects, use the search widget to quickly locate the table, view, etc. that you're looking for.

4. Edit the Email column in the first row, type [email protected], and press Enter to save the
change.

Use T-SQL snippets to create stored procedures

Azure Data Studio provides many built-in T-SQL snippets for quickly creating statements.
1. Open a new query editor by pressing Ctrl+N.
2. Type sql in the editor, arrow down to sqlCreateStoredProcedure, and press the Tab key (or Enter) to load
the create stored procedure snippet.
3. The create stored procedure snippet has two fields set up for quick edit, StoredProcedureName and
SchemaName. Select StoredProcedureName, right-click, and select Change All Occurrences. Now type
getCustomer and all StoredProcedureName entries change to getCustomer.

4. Change all occurrences of SchemaName to dbo.

5. The snippet contains placeholder parameters and body text that needs updating. The EXECUTE statement
also contains placeholder text because it doesn't know how many parameters the procedure will have. For
this tutorial update the snippet so it looks like the following code:
 -- Create a new stored procedure called 'getCustomer' in schema 'dbo'
-- Drop the stored procedure if it already exists
IF EXISTS (
SELECT *
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES
WHERE SPECIFIC_SCHEMA = N'dbo'
AND SPECIFIC_NAME = N'getCustomer'
)
DROP PROCEDURE dbo.getCustomer
GO
-- Create the stored procedure in the specified schema
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.getCustomer
@ID int
-- add more stored procedure parameters here
AS
-- body of the stored procedure
SELECT c.CustomerId,
c.Name,
c.Location,
c.Email
FROM dbo.Customers c
WHERE c.CustomerId = @ID
FOR JSON PATH

GO
-- example to execute the stored procedure we just created
EXECUTE dbo.getCustomer 1
GO

6. To create the stored procedure and give it a test run, press F5.
The stored procedure is now created, and the RESULTS pane displays the returned customer in JSON. To see
formatted JSON, click the returned record.

Use Peek Definition

Azure Data Studio provides the ability to view an objects definition using the peek definition feature. This section
creates a second stored procedure and uses peek definition to see what columns are in a table to quickly create
the body of the stored procedure.
1. Open a new editor by pressing Ctrl+N.
2. Type sql in the editor, arrow down to sqlCreateStoredProcedure, and press the Tab key (or Enter) to load
the create stored procedure snippet.
3. Type in setCustomer for StoredProcedureName and dbo for SchemaName
4. Replace the @param placeholders with the following parameter definition:

@json_val nvarchar(max)

5. Replace the body of the stored procedure with the following code:

INSERT INTO dbo.Customers

6. In the INSERT line you just added, right-click dbo.Customers and select Peek Definition.
7. The table definition appears so you can quickly see what columns are in the table. Refer to the column list
to easily complete the statements for your stored procedure. Finish creating the INSERT statement you
added previously to complete the body of the stored procedure, and close the peek definition window:

INSERT INTO dbo.Customers (CustomerId, Name, Location, Email)

SELECT CustomerId, Name, Location, Email
FROM OPENJSON (@json_val)
WITH( CustomerId int,
Name nvarchar(50),
Location nvarchar(50),
Email nvarchar(50)
)

8. Delete (or comment out) the EXECUTE command at the bottom of the query.
9. The entire statement should look like the following code:

-- Create a new stored procedure called 'setCustomer' in schema 'dbo'

-- Drop the stored procedure if it already exists
IF EXISTS (
SELECT *
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES
WHERE SPECIFIC_SCHEMA = N'dbo'
AND SPECIFIC_NAME = N'setCustomer'
)
DROP PROCEDURE dbo.setCustomer
GO
-- Create the stored procedure in the specified schema
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.setCustomer
@json_val nvarchar(max)
AS
-- body of the stored procedure
INSERT INTO dbo.Customers (CustomerId, Name, Location, Email)
SELECT CustomerId, Name, Location, Email
FROM OPENJSON (@json_val)
WITH( CustomerId int,
Name nvarchar(50),
Location nvarchar(50),
Email nvarchar(50)
)
GO
10. To create the setCustomer stored procedure, press F5.

Use save query results as JSON to test the setCustomer stored

procedure
The setCustomer stored procedure created in the previous section requires JSON data be passed into the
@json_val parameter. This section shows how to get a properly formatted bit of JSON to pass into the parameter
so you can test the stored procedure.
1. In the SERVERS sidebar right-click the dbo.Customers table and click SELECT TOP 1000 Rows.
2. Select the first row in the results view, make sure the entire row is selected (click the number 1 in the left-
most column), and select Save as JSON.
3. Change the folder to a location you'll remember so you can delete the file later (for example desktop) and
click Save. The JSON formatted file opens.

4. Select the JSON data in the editor and copy it.

5. Open a new editor by pressing Ctrl+N.
6. The previous steps show how you can easily get the properly formatted data to complete the call to the
setCustomer procedure. You can see the following code uses the same JSON format with new customer
details so we can test the setCustomer procedure. The statement includes syntax to declare the parameter
and run the new get and set procedures. You can paste the copied data from the previous section and edit
it so it is the same as the following example, or simply paste the following statement into the query editor.
 -- example to execute the stored procedure we just created
declare @json nvarchar(max) =
N'[
{
"CustomerId": 5,
"Name": "Lucy",
"Location": "Canada",
"Email": "[email protected]"
}
]'

EXECUTE dbo.setCustomer @json_val = @json

GO

EXECUTE dbo.getCustomer @ID = 5

7. Execute the script by pressing F5. The script inserts a new customer and returns the new customer's
information in JSON format. Click the result to open a formatted view.

Next steps
In this tutorial, you learned how to:
Quick search schema objects
Edit table data
Writing T-SQL script using snippets
Learn about database object details using Peek Definition and Go to Definition
To learn how to enable the five slowest queries widget, complete the next tutorial:
Enable the slow queries sample insight widget
 Tutorial: Add the five slowest queries sample widget
to the database dashboard
9/24/2018 • 3 minutes to read • Edit Online

This tutorial demonstrates the process of adding one of Azure Data Studio's built-in sample widgets to the
database dashboard to quickly view a database's five slowest queries. You also learn how to view the details of the
slow queries and query plans using Azure Data Studio's features. During this tutorial, you learn how to:
Enable Query Store on a database
Add a pre-built insight widget to the database dashboard
View details about the database's slowest queries
View query execution plans for the slow queries
Azure Data Studio includes several insight widgets out-of-the-box. This tutorial shows how to add the query-data -
store-db -insight widget, but the steps are basically the same for adding any widget.

Prerequisites
This tutorial requires the SQL Server or Azure SQL Database TutorialDB. To create the TutorialDB database,
complete one of the following quickstarts:
Connect and query SQL Server using Azure Data Studio
Connect and query Azure SQL Database using Azure Data Studio

Turn on Query Store for your database

The widget in this example requires Query Store to be enabled.
1. Right click the TutorialDB database (in the SERVERS sidebar) and select New Query.
2. Paste the following Transact-SQL (T-SQL ) statement in the query editor, and click Run:

ALTER DATABASE TutorialDB SET QUERY_STORE = ON

Add the slow queries widget to your database dashboard

To add the slow queries widget to your dashboard, edit the dashboard.database.widgets setting in your User
Settings file.
1. Open User Settings by pressing Ctrl+Shift+P to open the Command Palette.
2. Type settings in the search box and select Preferences: Open User Settings.
3. Type dashboard in the settings search box and locate dashboard.database.widgets.

4. To customize the dashboard.database.widgets settings you need to edit the

dashboard.database.widgets entry in the USER SETTINGS section (the column in the right side). If
there is no dashboard.database.widgets in the USER SETTINGS section, hover over the
dashboard.database.widgets text in the DEFAULT SETTINGS column and click the pencil icon that
appears to the left of the text and click Copy to Settings. If the pop-up says Replace in Settings, don't
click it! Go to the USER SETTINGS column to the right and locate the dashboard.database.widgets
section and advance to the next step.
5. In the dashboard.database.widgets section, add the following:
 {
"name": "slow queries widget",
"gridItemConfig": {
"sizex": 2,
"sizey": 1
},
"widget": {
"query-data-store-db-insight": null
}
},

6. If this is the first time adding a new widget, the dashboard.database.widgets section should look similar
to this:

"dashboard.database.widgets": [
{
"name": "slow queries widget",
"gridItemConfig": {
"sizex": 2,
"sizey": 1
},
"widget": {
"query-data-store-db-insight": null
}
},
{
"name": "Tasks",
"gridItemConfig": {
"sizex": 1,
"sizey": 1
},
"widget": {
"tasks-widget": {}
}
},
{
"gridItemConfig": {
"sizex": 1,
"sizey": 2
},
"widget": {
"explorer-widget": {}
}
}
]

7. Press Ctrl+S to save the modified User Settings.

8. Open the Database dashboard by navigating to TutorialDB in the SERVERS sidebar, right-click, and select
Manage.
9. The insight widget appears on the dashboard:

View insight details for more information

1. To view additional information for an insight widget, click the ellipses (...) in the upper right, and select Show
Details.
2. To show more details for an item, select any item in Chart Data list.
3. Right-click the cell to the right of query_sql_txt in Item Details and click Copy Cell.
4. Close the Insights pane.

View the query plan

1. Open a new query editor by pressing Ctrl+N.
2. Paste the query text from the previous steps into the editor.
3. Click Explain.

4. View the query's execution plan:

Save and open a query plan
1. Open the insight detail dialog.
2. Select one of the query items.
3. Right-click query_plan value and select Copy Cell

4. Press Ctrl+N to open a new editor.

5. Paste the copied plan into the editor.
6. Press Ctrl+S to save the file, and change the file extension to .sqlplan. .sqlplan does not appear in the file
extension dropdown, so just type it in. For this tutorial, name the file slowquery.sqlplan.
7. The query plan opens in Azure Data Studio's query plan viewer:
Next steps
In this tutorial, you learned how to:
Enable Query Store on a database
Add an insight widget to the database dashboard
View details about the database's slowest queries
View query execution plans for the slow queries
To learn how to enable the table space usage sample insight, complete the next tutorial:
Enable the table space sample insight widget
 Tutorial: Enable the table space usage sample insight
widget using Azure Data Studio
9/24/2018 • 2 minutes to read • Edit Online

This tutorial demonstrates how to enable an insight widget on the database dashboard, providing an at-a-glance
view about the space usage for all tables in a database. During this tutorial, you learn how to:
Quickly turn on an insight widget using a built-in insight widget example
View the details of table space usage
Filter data and view label detail on an insight chart

Prerequisites
This tutorial requires the SQL Server or Azure SQL Database TutorialDB. To create the TutorialDB database,
complete one of the following quickstarts:
Connect and query SQL Server using Azure Data Studio
Connect and query Azure SQL Database using Azure Data Studio

Turn on a management insight on Azure Data Studio's database

dashboard
Azure Data Studio has a built-in sample widget to monitor the space used by tables in a database.
1. Open User Settings by pressing Ctrl+Shift+P to open the Command Palette.
2. Type settings in the search box and select Preferences: Open User Settings.
3. Type dashboard in Settings Search input box and locate dashboard.database.widgets.
4. To customize the dashboard.database.widgets settings you need to edit the
dashboard.database.widgets entry in the USER SETTINGS section (the column in the right side). If
there is no dashboard.database.widgets in the USER SETTINGS section, hover over the
dashboard.database.widgets text in the DEFAULT SETTINGS column and click the pencil icon that
appears to the left of the text and click Copy to Settings. If the pop-up says Replace in Settings, don't
click it! Go to the USER SETTINGS column to the right and locate the dashboard.database.widgets
section and advance to the next step.
5. In the dashboard.database.widgets section, add the following:

{
"name": "Space Used by Tables",
"gridItemConfig": {
"sizex": 2,
"sizey": 1
},
"widget": {
"table-space-db-insight": null
}
},

The dashboard.database.widgets section should look similar to the follwing image:

6. Press Ctrl+S to save the settings.
7. Open database dashboard by right-clicking TutorialDB and click Manage.
8. View the table space insight widget as shown in the following image:

Working with the insight chart

Azure Data Studio's insight chart provides filtering and mouse-hover details. To try out the following steps:
1. Click and toggle the row_count legend on the chart. Azure Data Studio shows and hides data series as you
toggle a legend on or off.
2. Hover the mouse pointer over the chart. Azure Data Studio shows more information about the data series
label and its value as shown in the following screenshot.
Next steps
In this tutorial, you learned how to:
Quickly turn on an insight widget using a built-in insight widget sample.
View the details of table space usage.
Filter data and view label detail on an insight chart
To learn how to build a custom insight widget, complete the next tutorial:
Build a custom insight widget.
 Tutorial: Build a custom insight widget
9/24/2018 • 2 minutes to read • Edit Online

This tutorial demonstrates how to use your own insight queries to build custom insight widgets.
During this tutorial you learn how to:
Run your own query and view it in a chart
Build a custom insight widget from the chart
Add the chart to a server or database dashboard
Add details to your custom insight widget

Prerequisites
This tutorial requires the SQL Server or Azure SQL Database TutorialDB. To create the TutorialDB database,
complete one of the following quickstarts:
Connect and query SQL Server using Azure Data Studio
Connect and query Azure SQL Database using Azure Data Studio

Run your own query and view the result in a chart view
In this step, run a sql script to query the current active sessions.
1. To open a new editor, press Ctrl+N.
2. Change the connection context to TutorialDB.
3. Paste the following query into the query editor:

SELECT count(session_id) as [Active Sessions]

FROM sys.dm_exec_sessions
WHERE status = 'running'

4. Save the query in the editor to a *.sql file. For this tutorial, save the script as activeSession.sql.
5. To execute the query, press F5.
6. After the query results are displayed, click View as Chart, then click the Chart Viewer tab.
7. Change Chart Type to count. These settings render a count chart.

Add the custom insight to the database dashboard

1. To open the insight widget configuration, click Create Insight on Chart Viewer:
2. Copy the insight configuration (the JSON data).
3. Press Ctrl+Comma to open User Settings.
4. Type dashboard in Search Settings.
5. Click Edit for dashboard.database.widgets.

6. Paste the insight configuration JSON into dashboard.database.widgets. Database dashboard settings looks
like the following:
 "dashboard.database.widgets": [
{
"name": "My-Widget",
"gridItemConfig": {
"sizex": 2,
"sizey": 1
},
"widget": {
"insights-widget": {
"type": {
"count": {
"dataDirection": "vertical",
"dataType": "number",
"legendPosition": "none",
"labelFirstColumn": false,
"columnsAsLabels": false
}
},
"queryFile": "{your file folder}/activeSession.sql"
}
}
}
]

7. Save the User Settings file and open the TutorialDB database dashboard to see the active sessions widget:

Add details to custom insight

1. To open a new editor, press Ctrl+N.
2. Change the connection context to TutorialDB.
3. Paste the following query into the query editor:
 SELECT session_id AS [SID], login_time AS [Login Time], host_name AS [Host Name], program_name AS
[Program Name], login_name AS [Login Name]
FROM sys.dm_exec_sessions
WHERE status = 'running'

4. Save the query in the editor to a *.sql file. For this tutorial, save the script as activeSessionDetail.sql.
5. Press Ctrl+Comma to open User Settings.
6. Edit the existing dashboard.database.widgets node in your settings file:

"dashboard.database.widgets": [
{
"name": "My-Widget",
"gridItemConfig": {
"sizex": 2,
"sizey": 1
},
"widget": {
"insights-widget": {
"type": {
"count": {
"dataDirection": "vertical",
"dataType": "number",
"legendPosition": "none",
"labelFirstColumn": false,
"columnsAsLabels": false
}
},
"queryFile": "{your file folder}/activeSession.sql",
"details": {
"queryFile": "{your file folder}/activeSessionDetail.sql",
"label": "SID",
"value": "Login Name"
}
}
}
}
]

7. Save the User Settings file and open the TutorialDB database dashboard. Click the ellipsis (...) button next to
My-Widget to show the details:
Next steps
In this tutorial, you learned how to:
Run your own query and view it in a chart
Build a custom insight widget from the chart
Add the chart to a server or database dashboard
Add details to your custom insight widget
To learn how to backup and restore databases, complete the next tutorial:
Backup and restore databases.
 Backup and Restore using Azure Data Studio
9/24/2018 • 2 minutes to read • Edit Online

In this tutorial, you learn how to use Azure Data Studio to:
Backup a database
View the backup status
Generate the script used to perform the backup
Restore a database
View the status of the restore task

Prerequisites
This tutorial requires the SQL Server TutorialDB. To create the TutorialDB database, complete one of the following
quickstarts:
Connect and query SQL Server using Azure Data Studio

Backup a database
1. Open the TutorialDB database dashboard (open the SERVERS sidebar (CTRL+G), expand Databases,
right-click TutorialDB, and select Manage).
2. Open the Backup database dialog (click Backup on the Tasks widget).

3. This tutorial uses the default backup options, so click Backup.

After clicking Backup, the Backup database dialog disappears and the backup process begins.

View the backup status and view the backup script

1. Open the Task History sidebar by clicking the clock icon on the Action bar or press CTRL+T.

2. To view the backup script in the editor, right-click Backup Database succeeded and select Script.
Restore a database from a backup file
1. Open the SERVERS sidebar (CTRL+G), right-click your server, and select Manage.
2. Open the Restore database dialog (click Restore on the Tasks widget).
3. Select Backup file in the Restore from field.
4. Click the ellipses (...) in the Backup file path field, and select the latest backup file for TutorialDB.
5. Type TutorialDB_Restored in the Target database field in the Destination section to restore the backup
file to a new database.

6. Click Restore
7. To view the status of the restore operation, press CTRL+T to open the Task History sidebar.
In this tutorial, you learned how to:
Backup a database
View the backup status
Generate the script used to perform the backup
Restore a database
View the status of the restore task
 Manage servers and databases with Insight widgets
in Azure Data Studio
9/24/2018 • 2 minutes to read • Edit Online

Insight widgets take the Transact-SQL (T-SQL ) queries you use to monitor servers & databases and turns them
into insightful visualizations.
Insights are customizable charts and graphs that you add to server and database monitoring dashboards. View at-
a-glance insights of your servers and databases, then drill into more details, and launch management actions that
you define.
You can build awesome server and database management dashboards similar to the following example:

To jump in and start creating different types of insight widgets, check out the following tutorials:
Build a custom insight widget
Enable built-in insight widgets
Enable the performance monitoring insight
Enable the table space usage insight

SQL Queries
Azure Data Studio tries to avoid introducing yet another language or heavy user interface so it tries to use T-SQL
as much as possible with minimal JSON configuration. Configuring insight widgets with T-SQL leverages the
countless number of existing sources of useful T-SQL queries that can be turned into insightful widgets.
Insight widgets are composed of one or two T-SQL queries:
Insight widget query is mandatory, and is the query that returns the data that appears in the widget.
Insight details query is only required if you are creating an insight details page.
An insight widget query defines a dataset that renders a count, chart, or graph. Insight details query is used to list
relevant insight detail information in a tabular format in the insight details panel.
Azure Data Studio executes insight widget queries and maps the query result set to a chart's dataset then renders
it. When users open up an insight's details, it executes the insight details query and prints out the result in a grid
view within the dialog.
The basic idea is to write a T-SQL query in a way so it can be used as a dataset of a count, chart, and graph widget.

Summary
The T-SQL query and its result set determine the insight widget behavior. Writing a query for a chart type or
mapping a right chart type for existing query is the key consideration to build an effective insight widget.

Additional resources
Query Editor
 Create and use code snippets to quickly create
Transact-SQL (T-SQL) scripts in Azure Data Studio
9/24/2018 • 2 minutes to read • Edit Online

Code snippets in Azure Data Studio are templates that make it easy to create databases and database objects.
Azure Data Studio provides several T-SQL snippets to assist you with quickly generating the proper syntax.
User-defined code snippets can also be created.

Using built-in T-SQL code snippets

1. To access the available snippets, type sql in the query editor to open the list:

2. Select the snippet you want to use, and it generates the T-SQL script. For example, select sqlCreateTable:
3. Update the highlighted fields with your specific values. For example, replace TableName and Schema with
the values for your database:

If the field you want to change is no longer highlighted (this happens when moving the cursor around the
editor), right-click the word you want to change, and select Change all occurrences:
4. Update or add any additional T-SQL you need for the selected snippet. For example, update Column1,
Column2, and add more columns.

Creating SQL code snippets

You can define your own snippets. To open up the SQL snippet file for editing:
1. Open the Command Palette (Shift+Ctrl+P ), and type snip, and select Preferences: Open User Snippets:

2. Select SQL:
 NOTE
Azure Data Studio inherits its code snippet functionality from Visual Studio Code so this article specifically discusses
using SQL snippets. For more detailed information, see Creating your own snippets in the Visual Studio Code
documentation.

3. Paste the following code into sql.json:

"Select top 5": {

"prefix": "sqlSelectTop5",
"body": "SELECT TOP 5 * FROM ${1:TableName}",
"description": "User-defined snippet example 1"
},
"Create Table snippet":{
"prefix": "sqlCreateTable2",
"body": [
"-- Create a new table called '${1:TableName}' in schema '${2:SchemaName}'",
"-- Drop the table if it already exists",
"IF OBJECT_ID('$2.$1', 'U') IS NOT NULL",
"DROP TABLE $2.$1",
"GO",
"-- Create the table in the specified schema",
"CREATE TABLE $2.$1",
"(",
" $1Id INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, -- primary key column",
" Column1 [NVARCHAR](50) NOT NULL,",
" Column2 [NVARCHAR](50) NOT NULL",
" -- specify more columns here",
");",
"GO"
],
"description": "User-defined snippet example 2"
}

4. Save the sql.json file.

5. Open a new query editor window by clicking Ctrl+N.
6. Type sql, and you see the two user snippets you just added; sqlCreateTable2 and sqlSelectTop5.
Select one of the new snippets and give it a test run!

Additional resources
For information about the SQL editor, see Code editor tutorial.
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In Azure Data Studio, you can open an integrated terminal, initially starting at the root of your workspace. This can
be convenient as you don't have to switch windows or alter the state of an existing terminal to perform a quick
command-line task.
To open the terminal:
Use the Ctrl+` keyboard shortcut with the backtick character.
Use the View | Integrated Terminal menu command.
From the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P ), use the View:Toggle Integrated Terminal command.

NOTE
You can still open an external shell with the Explorer Open in Command Prompt command (Open in Terminal on Mac or
Linux) if you prefer to work outside Azure Data Studio.

Managing Multiple Terminals

You can create multiple terminals open to different locations and easily navigate between them. Terminal instances
can be added by hitting the plus icon on the top-right of the TERMINAL panel or by triggering the Ctrl+Shift+`
command. This creates another entry in the dropdown list that can be used to switch between them.
Remove terminal instances by pressing the trash can button.

TIP
If you use multiple terminals extensively, you can add key bindings for the focusNext , focusPrevious and kill
commands outlined in the Key Bindings section to allow navigation between them using only the keyboard.

Configuration
The shell used defaults to $SHELL on Linux and macOS, PowerShell on Windows 10 and cmd.exe on earlier
versions of Windows. These can be overridden manually by setting terminal.integrated.shell.* in settings.
Arguments can be passed to the terminal shell on Linux and macOS using the terminal.integrated.shellArgs.*
settings.
Windows
Correctly configuring your shell on Windows is a matter of locating the right executable and updating the setting.
Below are a list of common shell executables and their default locations:

// 64-bit cmd if available, otherwise 32-bit

"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Windows\\sysnative\\cmd.exe"
// 64-bit PowerShell if available, otherwise 32-bit
"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Windows\\sysnative\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe"
// Git Bash
"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Program Files\\Git\\bin\\bash.exe"
// Bash on Ubuntu (on Windows)
"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Windows\\sysnative\\bash.exe"

NOTE
To be used as an integrated terminal, the shell executable must be a console application so that stdin/stdout/stderr can
be redirected.
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The integrated terminal shell is running with the permissions of Azure Data Studio. If you need to run a shell command with
elevated (administrator) or different permissions, you can use platform utilities such as runas.exe within a terminal.

Shell arguments
You can pass arguments to the shell when it is launched.
For example, to enable running bash as a login shell (which runs .bash_profile ), pass in the -l argument (with
double quotes):

// Linux
"terminal.integrated.shellArgs.linux": ["-l"]

Terminal Display Settings

You can customize the integrated terminal font and line height with the following settings:
terminal.integrated.fontFamily
terminal.integrated.fontSize
terminal.integrated.lineHeight

Terminal Key Bindings

The View: Toggle Integrated Terminal command is bound to Ctrl+` to quickly toggle the integrated terminal
panel in and out of view.
Below are the keyboard shortcuts to quickly navigate within the integrated terminal:

KEY COMMAND

Ctrl+` Show integrated terminal

Ctrl+Shift+` Create new terminal

Ctrl+Up Scroll up

Ctrl+Down Scroll down

Ctrl+PageUp Scroll page up

Ctrl+PageDown Scroll page down

Ctrl+Home Scroll to top

Ctrl+End Scroll to bottom

Ctrl+K Clear the terminal

Other terminal commands are available and can be bound to your preferred keyboard shortcuts.
They are:
 workbench.action.terminal.focus : Focus the terminal. This is like toggle but focuses the terminal instead of
hiding it, if it is visible.
workbench.action.terminal.focusNext : Focuses the next terminal instance.
workbench.action.terminal.focusPrevious : Focuses the previous terminal instance.
workbench.action.terminal.kill : Remove the current terminal instance.
workbench.action.terminal.runSelectedText : Run the selected text in the terminal instance.
workbench.action.terminal.runActiveFile : Run the active file in the terminal instance.

Run Selected Text

To use the runSelectedText command, select text in an editor and run the command Terminal: Run Selected
Text in Active Terminal via the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P ). The terminal attempts to run the selected
text:

If no text is selected in the active editor, the line that the cursor is on is run in the terminal.
Copy & Paste
The keybindings for copy and paste follow platform standards:
Linux: Ctrl+Shift+C and Ctrl+Shift+V
Mac: Cmd+C and Cmd+V
Windows: Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V
Find
The Integrated Terminal has basic find functionality that can be triggered with Ctrl+F.
If you want Ctrl+F to go to the shell instead of launching the Find widget on Linux and Windows, you need to
remove the keybinding like so:

{ "key": "ctrl+f", "command": "-workbench.action.terminal.focusFindWidget",

"when": "terminalFocus" },

Rename terminal sessions

Integrated Terminal sessions can now be renamed using the Terminal: Rename (
workbench.action.terminal.rename ) command. The new name is displayed in the terminal selection drop-down.
Forcing key bindings to pass through the terminal
While focus is in the integrated terminal, many key bindings won't work because the keystrokes are passed to and
consumed by the terminal itself. The terminal.integrated.commandsToSkipShell setting can be used to get around
this. It contains an array of command names whose key bindings skip processing by the shell and instead be
processed by the Azure Data Studio key binding system. By default this includes all terminal key bindings in
addition to a select few commonly used key bindings.
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This article provides the steps to quickly view, edit, and create keyboard shortcuts in Azure Data Studio.
Because Azure Data Studio inherits its key binding functionality from Visual Studio Code, detailed information
about advanced customizations, using different keyboard layouts, etc., is in the Key Bindings for Visual Studio Code
article. Some keybinding features may not be available (for example, Keymap extensions are not supported in
Azure Data Studio).

Open the Keyboard Shortcuts editor

To view all currently defined keyboard shortcuts:
Open the Keyboard Shortcuts editor from the File menu: File > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts (Azure
Data Studio > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts on Mac).
In addition to displaying current keybindings, the Keyboard Shortcuts editor lists the available commands that do
not have keyboard shortcuts defined. The Keyboard Shortcuts editor enables you to easily change, remove, reset,
and define new keybindings.

Edit existing keyboard shortcuts

To change the keybinding for an existing keyboard shortcut:
1. Locate the keyboard shortcut you want to change by using the search box or scrolling through the list.

TIP
Search by key, by command, by source, etc. to return all relevant keyboard shortcuts.

2. Right-click the desired entry and select Change Keybinding

3. Press the desired combination of keys, then press Enter to save it.

Create new keyboard shortcuts

To create new keyboard shortcuts:
1. Right-click a command that doesn't have any keybinding and select Add Keybinding.

2. Press the desired combination of keys, then press Enter to save it.
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In this document, you learn how you can explore and manage Azure SQL Server, Azure SQL database, and Azure
SQL Managed Instance resources through Azure Resource Explorer in Azure Data Studio.

NOTE
The Azure Resource Explorer will be supported in SQL Server 2019 preview in October. After that, you can install the preview
extension through extension manager or through File > Install Package from VSIX Package.

Connect to Azure
After installing the SQL preview plugin, an Azure icon appears in the left menu bar. Click the icon to open Azure
Resource Explorer. If you don't see the Azure icon, right click the left menu bar, and select Azure Resource
Explorer.
Add an Azure account
To view the SQL resources associated with an Azure account, you must first add the account to Azure Data Studio.
1. Open Linked Accounts dialog through the account management icon on the left bottom, or through Sign
in to Azure... link in Azure Resource Explorer.
2. In the Linked Accounts dialog, click Add an account.
3. Click Copy and Open to open the browser for authentication.

4. Paste the User code in the web page and click Continue to authenticate.
5. In Azure Data Studio you should now find the logged in Azure account in Linked Accounts dialog.
Add more Azure accounts
Multiple Azure accounts are supported in Azure Data Studio. To add more Azure accounts, click the button on the
right top of Linked Accounts dialog and follow the same steps with Add an Azure account section to add more
Azure accounts.
Remove an Azure account
To remove an existing logged in Azure account:
1. Open Linked Accounts dialog through the account management icon on the left bottom.
2. Click the X button at the right of the Azure account to remove it.

Filter subscription
Once logged in to an Azure account, all subscriptions associated with that Azure account display in Azure Resource
Explorer. You can filter subscriptions for each Azure account.
1. Click the Select Subscription button at right of the Azure account.
2. Select the check boxes for the account subscriptions you want to browse and then click OK.
Explore Azure SQL resources
To navigate an Azure SQL resource in Azure Resource Explorer, expand the Azure accounts and resource type
group.
Azure Resource Explorer supports Azure SQL Server, Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance
currently.

Connect to Azure SQL resources

Azure Resource Explorer provide quick access that helps you connect to SQL Servers and databases for query and
management.
1. Explore the SQL resource you would like to connect with from the tree view.
2. Right click the resource and select Connect, you can also find the connect button at the right of the
resource.
3. In the opened Connection dialog, enter your password and click Connect.
4. The Servers window automatically opens with the new connected SQL server/database after connection
 succeeds.

Next steps
Use Azure Data Studio to connect and query Azure SQL database
Use Azure Data Studio to connect and query data in Azure SQL Data Warehouse
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Server groups provide a way to organize your connections to the servers and databases you work with. When you
create server groups, the configuration details are saved into User Settings.

Create and edit server groups

1. Click New Server Group at the top of the SERVERS sidebar.
2. Enter a group name and select a color for the group. Optionally, add a description.

To edit an existing server group, right-click the group, and select Edit Server Group.
To edit available server group colors, edit the Server Groups values in User Settings.

TIP
You can drag and drop servers between different Server Groups.

Additional resources
Workspace and User settings
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Azure Data Studio supports Git for version/source control.

Git support in Azure Data Studio

Azure Data Studio ships with a Git source control manager (SCM ), but you still need to install Git (version 2.0.0 or
later) before these features are available.

Open an existing Git repository

1. Under the File menu, select Open Folder...
2. Browse to the folder that contains your files tracked by git, and click Select Folder. Subfolders in your local
repository are okay to select here.

Initialize a new git repository

1. Select Source Control, then select the git icon.

2. Enter the path to the folder you want to initialize as a Git repository and press Enter.
Working with Git repositories
Azure Data Studio inherits its Git implementation from VS Code, but does not currently support additional SCM
providers. For the details about working with Git after you open or initialize a repository, see Git support in VS
Code.

Additional resources
Git documentation
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It is easy to configure Azure Data Studio to your liking through settings. Nearly every part of Azure Data Studio's
editor, user interface, and functional behavior has options you can modify.
Azure Data Studio provides two different scopes for settings:
User These settings apply globally to any instance of Azure Data Studio you open.
Workspace Workspace settings are settings specific to a folder on your computer, and are only available when
the folder is open in the Explorer sidebar. Settings defined on this scope override the user scope.

Creating User and Workspace Settings

The menu command File > Preferences > Settings (Code > Preferences > Settings on Mac) provides the
entry point to configure user and workspace settings. You are provided with a list of Default Settings. Copy any
setting that you want to change to the appropriate settings.json file. The tabs on the right let you switch quickly
between the user and workspace settings files.
You can also open the user and workspace settings from the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P ) with
Preferences: Open User Settings and Preferences: Open Workspace Settings or use the keyboard shortcut
(Ctrl+,).
The following example disables line numbers in the editor and configures lines of code to be indented
automatically.

Changes to settings are reloaded by Azure Data Studio after the modified settings.json file is saved.

Note: Workspace settings are useful for sharing project-specific settings across a team.

Settings File Locations

Depending on your platform, the user settings file is located here:
Windows %APPDATA%\sqlops\User\settings.json
Mac $HOME/Library/Application Support/sqlops/User/settings.json
Linux $HOME/.config/sqlops/User/settings.json
The workspace setting file is located under the .[!INCLUDE[name-sos](../includes/name-sos-short.md)] folder in
your project.

Hot Exit
Azure Data Studio remembers unsaved changes to files when you exit by default. This is the same as the hot exit
feature in Visual Studio Code.
By default, hot exit is off. Enable hot exit by editing the files.hotExit setting. For details, see Hot Exit (in the
Visual Studio Code documentation).

Tab color
To simplify identifying what connections you are working with, open tabs in the editor can have their colors set to
match the color of the Server Group the connection belongs to. By default, tab colors are off by default. Enable tab
colors by editing the sql.tabColorMode setting.

Additional resources
Because Azure Data Studio inherits its user and workspace settings functionality from Visual Studio Code, detailed
information about settings is in the Settings for Visual Studio Code article.
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Azure Data Studio supports connecting to SQL Server using Kerberos.

In order to use Integrated Authentication (Windows Authentication) on macOS or Linux, you need to set up a
Kerberos ticket linking your current user to a Windows domain account.

Prerequisites
Access to a Windows domain-joined machine in order to query your Kerberos Domain Controller.
SQL Server should be configured to allow Kerberos authentication. For the client driver running on Unix,
integrated authentication is only supported using Kerberos. More information on setting up Sql Server to
authenticate using Kerberos can be found here. There should be SPNs registered for each instance of Sql Server
you are trying to connect to. Details about the format of SQL Server SPNs are listed here

Checking if Sql Server has Kerberos Setup

Login to the host machine of Sql Server. From Windows Command Prompt, use the setspn -L %COMPUTERNAME% to
list all the Service Principal Names for the host. You should see entries that begin with
MSSQLSvc/HostName.Domain.com which means that Sql Server has registered an SPN and is ready to accept
Kerberos authentication.
If you don't have access to the Host of the Sql Server, then from any other Windows OS joined to the same
Active Directory, you could use the command setspn -L <SQLSERVER_NETBIOS> where
<SQLSERVER_NETBIOS> is the computer name of the host of the Sql Server.

Get the Kerberos Key Distribution Center

Find the Kerberos KDC (Key Distribution Center) configuration value. Run the following command on a Windows
computer that is joined to your Active Directory Domain:
Start cmd.exe and run nltest .

nltest /dsgetdc:DOMAIN.COMPANY.COM (where “DOMAIN.COMPANY.COM” maps to your domain’s name)

Sample Output
DC: \\dc-33.domain.company.com
Address: \\2111:4444:2111:33:1111:ecff:ffff:3333
...
The command completed successfully

Copy the DC name that is the required KDC configuration value, in this case dc-33.domain.company.com

Join your OS to the Active Directory Domain Controller

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install realmd krb5-user software-properties-common python-software-properties packagekit

Edit the /etc/network/interfaces file so that your AD domain controller's IP address is listed as a dns-nameserver.
For example:

<...>
# The primary network interface
auth eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
dns-nameservers **<AD domain controller IP address>**
dns-search **<AD domain name>**

NOTE
The network interface (eth0) might differ for different machines. To find out which one you are using, run ifconfig and copy
the interface that has an IP address and transmitted and received bytes.

After editing this file, restart the network service:

sudo ifdown eth0 && sudo ifup eth0

Now check that your /etc/resolv.conf file contains a line like the following:

nameserver **<AD domain controller IP address>**

sudo realm join contoso.com -U '[email protected]' -v

<...>
* Success

RedHat Enterprise Linux

sudo yum install realmd krb5-workstation

Edit the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file (or other interface config file as appropriate) so that your
AD domain controller's IP address is listed as a DNS server:

<...>
PEERDNS=no
DNS1=**<AD domain controller IP address>**

After editing this file, restart the network service:

sudo systemctl restart network

Now check that your /etc/resolv.conf file contains a line like the following:

nameserver **<AD domain controller IP address>**

sudo realm join contoso.com -U '[email protected]' -v

<...>
* Success
macOS
Join your macOS to the Active Directory Domain Controller by following these steps.

Configure KDC in krb5.conf

Edit the /etc/krb5.conf in an editor of your choice. Configure the following keys

sudo vi /etc/krb5.conf

[libdefaults]
default_realm = DOMAIN.COMPANY.COM

[realms]
DOMAIN.COMPANY.COM = {
kdc = dc-33.domain.company.com
}

Then save the krb5.conf file and exit

NOTE
Domain must be in ALL CAPS

Test the Ticket Granting Ticket retrieval

Get a Ticket Granting Ticket (TGT) from KDC.

kinit [email protected]

View the available tickets using kinit. If the kinit was successful, you should see a ticket.

klist

krbtgt/DOMAIN.COMPANY.COM@ DOMAIN.COMPANY.COM.

Connect using Azure Data Studio

Create a new connection profile
Choose Windows Authentication as the authentication type
Complete the connection profile, click Connect
After successfully connecting, your server appears in the Servers sidebar.
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How to disable telemetry reporting

Azure Data Studio collects usage data and sends it to Microsoft to help improve our products and services. To
learn more, read the privacy statement.
If you don’t wish to send usage data to Microsoft, you can set the telemetry.enableTelemetry setting to false.
To silence all telemetry events from Azure Data Studio, from File > Preferences > Settings, add the following
option:

"telemetry.enableTelemetry": false

Important Notice: This option requires a restart of Azure Data Studio to take effect.

How to disable crash reporting

To disable crash reporting, from File > Preferences > Settings, add the following option:

"telemetry.enableCrashReporter": false

Important Notice: This option requires a restart of Azure Data Studio to take effect.

Additional resources
Workspace and User settings
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Extensions in Azure Data Studio provide an easy way to add more functionality to the base Azure Data Studio
installation.
Extensions are provided by the Azure Data Studio team (Microsoft), as well as the 3rd party community (you!). For
details about creating extensions, see Extension authoring.

Add Azure Data Studio extensions

1. To open the extensions manager and access the available extensions, select the extensions icon, or select
Extensions in the View menu.
2. Select an available extension to view it's details.

3. Select the extension you want and Install it.

4. Select Reload to enable the extension (only required the first time you install an extension).
5. Navigate to your management dashboard by right-clicking your server or database and selecting Manage.
6. Installed extensions appear as tabs on your management dashboard:
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The SQL Server 2019 extension (preview ) provides preview support for new features and tools shipping in
support of SQL Server 2019 preview. This includes preview support for SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters, an
integrated Notebook, Polybase Create External Table wizard for SQL Server, and Azure Resource Explorer.

Install the SQL Server 2019 extension (preview)

Download and install the SQL Server 2019 extension (preview ):

PLATFORM DOWNLOAD RELEASE DATE

Windows .vsix September 24, 2018

macOS .vsix September 24, 2018

Linux .vsix September 24, 2018

In Azure Data Studio choose Install Extension from VSIX Package from the File menu and select the
downloaded .vsix file. Choose Yes when prompted to confirm installation and wait for the notification that
installation succeeded.
Select Reload to enable the extension (only required the first time you install an extension).

SQL Server 2019 Big Data Cluster support

Click Add Connection in Object Explorer and choose SQL Server big data cluster as the connection type.
Enter the host name or IP address of the cluster endpoint plus the username & password used to connect.
Optionally, include a friendly display name in the Name field.
Click Connect and you can then launch common tasks from the Dashboard, browse HDFS in Object Explorer,
and run in-context tasks from there.
To submit a Spark job against the cluster, right-click on the server node in Object Explorer and choose Submit
Spark Job to bring up the submission dialog.
To open a Notebook, see the next section.
For details, see Big Data Clusters.

Azure Data Studio Notebooks

Open a notebook in one of the following ways:
Open a new notebook from the Command Palette.
Open the HDFS Object Explorer tree for a SQL Server 2019 big data cluster and either:
Right click on the server node and choose New Jupyter Notebook.
Right click on a CSV file, and choose Analyze in Notebook.
Open an existing .ipynb file from the File menu or file explorer (.ipynb files must be upgraded to version
4 or higher to load properly )
Choose a kernel. For local notebook execution, choose Python 3. For remote execution, choose PySpark or
Spark | Scala.
 Choose a SQL Server big data cluster endpoint to connect to if executing remotely (this is not necessary for
local development with Python 3).
Add code or markdown cells via the buttons in the notebook header. Remove cells with the trash can icon to the
left of each cell.
Run cells with the play button for code cells, and toggle markdown editing and preview with the eye icon

Azure Resource Explorer

To sign in to Azure, click on the person icon in the bottom left of Azure Data Studio and follow the dialogs to
sign in to Azure.
Once signed in, click on the triangular Azure icon in the left bar of Azure Data Studio and expand the tree to
show SQL resources associated with your subscriptions.
Right-click or click the plug icon on any SQL database or SQL Server to open the connection dialog. Enter your
password to connect and add the resource to the Azure Data Studio object explorer.
For details, see Azure Resource Explorer.

Polybase Create External Table Wizard

From a SQL Server 2019 instance the Create External Table Wizard can be opened in three ways:
Right click on a server, choose Manage, click on the tab for SQL Server 2019 (Preview ), and choose
Create External Table.
With a SQL Server 2019 instance selected in Object Explorer, bring up Create External Wizard via the
Command Palette.
Right click on a SQL Server 2019 database in Object Explorer and choose Create External Table.
In this version of the extension, external tables may be created to access remote SQL Server and Oracle
tables.

NOTE
While the External Table functionality is a SQL 2019 feature, the remote SQL Server may be running an earlier version
of SQL Server.

Choose whether you are accessing SQL Server or Oracle on the first page of the wizard and continue.
You will be prompted to create a Database Master Key if one has not already been created (passwords of
insufficient complexity will be blocked).
Create a data source connection and named credential for the remote server.
Choose which objects to map to your new external table.
Choose Generate Script or Create to finish the wizard.
After creation of the external table, it immediately appears in the object tree of the database where it was
created.

Known Issues
If password is not saved when creating a connection, some actions such as submitting Spark Job may not
succeed.
Existing .ipynb notebooks must be upgraded to version 4 or higher to load contents in the viewer.
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The SQL Server Agent extension (preview ) is an extension for managing and troubleshooting SQL Agent jobs and
configuration. This extension is currently in preview.
Key actions include:
List SQL Server Agent Jobs Configured on a SQL Server
View Job History with job execution results
Basic Job Control to start and stop jobs

Install the SQL Server Agent extension

1. To open the extensions manager and access the available extensions, select the extensions icon, or select
Extensions in the View menu.
2. Select an available extension to view it's details.

3. Select the extension you want and Install it.

4. Select Reload to enable the extension (only required the first time you install an extension).
5. Navigate to your management dashboard by right-clicking your server or database and selecting Manage.
6. Installed extensions appear as tabs on your management dashboard:
View jobs
When you connect to the SQL Server Agent extension, the first thing you see is a list of all your Agent jobs.

Next steps
To learn more about SQL Server Agent, check our documentation.
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The SQL Server Import extension (preview ) converts .txt and .csv files into a SQL table. This wizard utilizes a
Microsoft Research framework known as Program Synthesis using Examples (PROSE ) to intelligently parse the file
with minimal user input. It is a powerful framework for data wrangling, and it is the same technology that powers
Flash Fill in Microsoft Excel
To learn more about the SSMS version of this feature, you can read this article.

Install the SQL Server Import extension

1. To open the extensions manager and access the available extensions, select the extensions icon, or select
Extensions in the View menu.
2. Select an available extension to view its details.

3. Select the extension you want and Install it.

4. Select Reload to enable the extension (only required the first time you install an extension).

Start Import Wizard

1. To start SQL Server Import, first make a connection to a server in the Servers tab.
2. After you make a connection, drill down to the target database that you want to import a file into a SQL table.
3. Right-click on the database and click Import Wizard.
Importing a file
1. When you right-click to launch the wizard, the server and database are already auto-filled. If there are other
active connections, you can select in the dropdown.
Select a file by clicking Browse. It should auto-fill the table name based on the file name, but you can also
change it yourself.
By default, the schema will be dbo but you can change it. Click Next to proceed.
2. The wizard will generate a preview based on the first 50 rows. There is no additional action on this page other
than verifying the data looks accurate. Click Next to proceed.

3. On this page, you can make changes to column name, data type, whether it is a primary key, or to allow nulls.
You can make as many changes as you like. Click Import Data to proceed.
4. This page gives a summary of the actions chosen. You can also see whether your table inserted successfully
or not.
You can either click Done, Previous if you need to make changes, or Import new file to quickly import
another file.
5. Verify if your table successfully imported by refreshing your target database or running a SELECT query on the
table name.

Next steps
To learn more about the Import Wizard, read the blog post.
To learn more about PROSE, read the documentation.
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The SQL Server Profiler extension (preview ) provides a simple SQL Server tracing solution similar to SQL Server
Management Studio (SSMS ) Profiler except built using XEvents. SQL Server Profiler is very easy to use and has
good default values for the most common tracing configurations. The UX is optimized for browsing through
events and viewing the associated Transact-SQL (T-SQL ) text. The SQL Server Profiler for Azure Data Studio also
assumes good default values for collecting T-SQL execution activities with an easy to use UX. This extension is
currently in preview.
Common SQL Profiler use-cases:
Stepping through problem queries to find the cause of the problem.
Finding and diagnosing slow -running queries.
Capturing the series of Transact-SQL statements that lead to a problem.
Monitoring the performance of SQL Server to tune workloads.
Correlating performance counters to diagnose problems.

Install the SQL Server Profiler extension

1. To open the extensions manager and access the available extensions, select the extensions icon, or select
Extensions in the View menu.
2. Select an available extension to view its details.

3. Select the extension you want and Install it.

4. Select Reload to enable the extension (only required the first time you install an extension).

Start Profiler
1. To start Profiler, first make a connection to a server in the Servers tab.
2. After you make a connection, type Alt + P to launch Profiler.
3. To start Profiler, type Alt + S. You can now start seeing Extended Events.

4. To stop Profiler, type Alt + S. This hotkey is a toggle.

Next steps
To learn more about Profiler and extended events, see Extended Events.
 Getting started with Azure Data Studio extensibility
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Azure Data Studio has several extensibility mechanisms to customize the user experience and make those
customizations available to the entire user community. The core Azure Data Studio platform is built upon Visual
Studio Code, so most of the Visual Studio Code extensibility APIs are available. Additionally, we've provided
additional extensibility points for data management-specific activities.
Some of the key extensibility points are:
Visual Studio Code extensibility APIs
Azure Data Studio extension authoring tools
Manage Dashboard tab panel contributions
Insights with Actions experiences
Azure Data Studio extensibility APIs
Custom Data Provider APIs

Visual Studio Code extensibility APIs

Because the core Azure Data Studio platform is built upon Visual Studio Code, details about the Visual Studio
Code extensibility APIs are found in the Extension Authoring and Extension API documentation on the Visual
Studio Code website.

Manage Dashboard tab panel contributions

For details, see Contribution Points and Context Variables.

Azure Data Studio extensibility APIs

For details, see Extensibility APIs.

Contribution points
This section covers the various contribution points that are defined in the package.json extension manifest.
The IntelliSense is supported inside azuredatastudio.

Contributes dashboard
Contribute tab, container, insight widget to the dashboard.
dashboard.tabs

Dashboard.tabs creates the tab sections inside the dashboard page. It expects an object or an array of objects.

"dashboard.tabs": [
{
"id": "test-tab1",
"title": "Test 1",
"description": "The test 1 displays a list of widgets.",
"when": "connectionProvider == 'MSSQL' && !mssql:iscloud",
"alwaysShow": true,
"container": {
…
}
}
]

dashboard.containers

Instead of specifying dashboard container inline (inside the dashboard.tab). You can register containers using
dashboard.containers. It accepts an object or an array of the object.

"dashboard.containers": [
{
"id": "innerTab1",
"container": {
…
}
},
{
"id": "innerTab2",
"container": {
…
}
}
]

To refer to registered container, specify the id of the container

 "dashboard.tabs": [
{
...
"container": {
"innerTab1": {
}
}
}
]

dashboard.insights

You can register insights using dashboard.insights. This is similar to Tutorial: Build a custom insight widget

"dashboard.insights": {
"id": "my-widget"
"type": {
"count": {
"dataDirection": "vertical",
"dataType": "number",
"legendPosition": "none",
"labelFirstColumn": false,
"columnsAsLabels": false
}
},
"queryFile": "{your file folder}/activeSession.sql"
}

Dashboard container types

There are currently four supported container types:
1. widgets-container

The list of widgets that will be displayed in the container. It’s a flow layout. It accepts the list of widgets.
 "container": {
"widgets-container": [
{
"widget": {
"query-data-store-db-insight": {
}
}
},
{
"widget": {
"explorer-widget": {
}
}
}
]
}

2. webview-container

The webview will be displayed in the entire container. It expects webview id to be the same is tab ID

"container": {
"webview-container": null
}

3. grid-container
The list of widgets or webviews that will be displayed in the grid layout
 "container": {
"grid-container": [
{
"name": "widget 1",
"widget": {
"explorer-widget": {
}
},
"row":0,
"col":0
},
{
"name": "widget 2",
"widget": {
"tasks-widget": {
"backup",
"restore",
"configureDashboard",
"newQuery"
}
},
"row":0,
"col":1
},
{
"name": "Webview 1",
"webview": {
"id": "google"
},
"row":1,
"col":0,
"colspan":2
},
{
"name": "widget 3",
"widget": {
"explorer-widget": {}
},
"row":0,
"col":3,
"rowspan":2
},
]

4. nav-section
The navigation section will be displayed in the container

"container": {
"nav-section": [
{
"id": "innerTab1",
"title": "inner-tab1",
"icon": {
"light": "./icons/tab1Icon.svg",
"dark": "./icons/tab1Icon_dark.svg"
}
"container": {
…
}
},
{
"id": "innerTab2",
"title": "inner-tab2",
"icon": {
"light": "./icons/tab2Icon.svg",
"dark": "./icons/tab2Icon_dark.svg"
}
"container": {
…
}
}
]
}
Context variables
For general information about context in Visual Studio Code and subsequently Azure Data Studio, see
Extensibility.
In Azure Data Studio, we have specific context around database connections available for extensions.
Dashboard
In dashboard, we provide the following context variables:

CONTEX T VARIABLE DESCRIPTION

connectionProvider A string of the identifier for the provider of the current

connection. Ex. connectionProvider == 'MSSQL' .

serverName A string of the server name of the current connection. Ex.

serverName == 'localhost' .

databaseName A string of the database name of the current connection. Ex.

databaseName == 'master' .

connection The full connection profile object for the current connection
(IConnectionProfile)

dashboardContext A string of the context of the page of the dashboard is

currently on. Either 'database' or 'server'. Ex.
dashboardContext == 'database'
 Extend the functionality of Azure Data Studio
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Extensions in Azure Data Studio provide an easy way to add more functionality to the base Azure Data Studio
installation.
Extensions are provided by the Azure Data Studio team (Microsoft), as well as the 3rd party community (you!).

Author an extension
If you're interested in extending Azure Data Studio, you can create your own extension and publish it to the
extension gallery.
Writing an Extension
Prerequisites
To develop an extension you need Node.js installed and available in your $PATH. Node.js includes npm, the
Node.js Package Manager, which will be used to install the extension generator.
To start your new extension, you can use the Azure Data Studio Extension generator. The Yeoman extension
generator makes it very easy to create simple extension projects. To Launch the generator, type the following in a
command prompt:
npm install -g yo generator-sqlops

yo sqlops

Extensibility References
To learn about Azure Data Studio Extensibility see Extensibility overview. You can also see examples of how to use
the API in existing samples.

Debug an extension
You can debug your new extension using Visual Studio Code extension Azure Data Studio Debug.
Steps
Open your extension with Visual Studio Code
Install Azure Data Studio Debug extension
Press F5 or click the Debug icon and click Start.
A new instance of Azure Data Studio starts in a special mode (Extension Development Host) and this new
instance is now aware of your extension.

Create an extension package

After writing your extension, you need to create a VSIX package to be able to install it in Azure Data Studio. You
can use vsce to create the VSIX package.
npm install -g vsce

vsce package
Publish an extension
To publish your new extension to Azure Data Studio:
1. Add your extension to
https://github.com/Microsoft/azuredatastudio/blob/release/extensions/extensionsGallery.json
2. We currently don't have support to host third party extensions, so instead of downloading the extension, Azure
Data Studio has the option to browse to a download page. To set a download page for your extension, set the
value of asset "Microsoft.AzureDataStudio.DownloadPage".
3. Create a PR against release/extensions branch.
4. Send a review request to the team.
Your extension will be reviewed and added to the extension gallery.
Publishing Extension Updates The process to publish updates is similar to publishing the extension. Please
make sure the version is updated in package.json
 Tutorial: Create an Azure Data Studio extension
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This tutorial demonstrates how to create a new Azure Data Studio extension. The extension creates familiar SSMS
keybindings in Azure Data Studio.
During this tutorial you learn how to:
Create an extension project
Install the extension generator
Create your extension
Test your extension
Package your extension
Publish your extension to the marketplace

Prerequisites
Azure Data Studio is built on the same framework as Visual Studio Code, so extensions for Azure Data Studio are
built using Visual Studio Code. To get started, you need the following components:
Node.js installed and available in your $PATH . Node.js includes npm, the Node.js Package Manager, which is
used to install the extension generator.
Visual Studio Code to debug the extension.
The Azure Data Studio Debug extension.
Ensure sqlops is in your path. For Windows, make sure you choose the Add to Path option in setup.exe. For
Mac or Linux, run the Install 'sqlops' command in PATH option.
SQL Operations Studio Debug extension (optional). This lets you test your extension without needing to
package and install it into Azure Data Studio.

Install the extension generator

To simplify the process of creating extensions, we've built an extension generator using Yeoman. To install it, run the
following from the command prompt:
npm install -g yo generator-sqlops

Create your extension

To create an extension:
1. Launch the extension generator with the following command:
yo sqlops

2. Choose New Keymap from the list of extension types:

3. Follow the steps to fill in the extension name (for this tutorial, use ssmskeymap), and add a description.
Completing the previous steps creates a new folder. Open the folder in Visual Studio Code and you're ready to
create your own keybinding extension!
Add a keyboard shortcut
Step 1: Find the shortcuts to replace
Now that we have our extension ready to go, add some SSMS keyboard shortcuts (or keybindings) into Azure
Data Studio. I used Andy Mallon's Cheatsheet and RedGate's keyboard shortcuts list for inspiration.
The top things I saw missing were:
Run a query with the actual execution plan enabled. This is Ctrl+M in SSMS and doesn't have a binding in
Azure Data Studio.
Having CTRL+SHIFT+E as a 2nd way of running a query. User feedback indicated that this was missing.
Having ALT+F1 run sp_help . We added this in Azure Data Studio but since that binding was already in use, we
mapped it to ALT+F2 instead.
Toggle full screen (SHIFT+ALT+ENTER).
F8 to show Object Explorer / Servers view.
It’s easy to find and replace these keybindings. Run Open Keyboard Shortcuts to show the Keyboard Shortcuts
tab in Azure Data Studio, search for query and then choose Change Keybinding. Once you're done changing the
keybinding you can see the updated mapping in the keybindings.json file (run Open Keyboard Shortcuts to see it).
Step 2: Add shortcuts to the extension
To add shortcuts to the extension, open the package.json file (in the extension) and replace the contributes section
with the following:

"contributes": {
"keybindings": [
{
"key": "shift+cmd+e",
"command": "runQueryKeyboardAction"
},
{
"key": "ctrl+cmd+e",
"command": "workbench.view.explorer"
},
{
"key": "alt+f1",
"command": "workbench.action.query.shortcut1"
},
{
"key": "shift+alt+enter",
"command": "workbench.action.toggleFullScreen"
},
{
"key": "f8",
"command": "workbench.view.connections"
},
{
"key": "ctrl+m",
"command": "runCurrentQueryWithActualPlanKeyboardAction"
}
]
}

Test your extension

Ensure azuredatastudio is in your PATH by running the Install azuredatastudio command in PATH command in
Azure Data Studio.
Ensure the Azure Data Studio Debug extension is installed in Visual Studio Code.
Select F5 to launch Azure Data Studio in debug mode with the extension running:
Keymaps are one of the quickest extensions to create, so your new extension should now be successfully working
and ready to share.

Package your extension

To share with others you need to package the extension into a single file. This can be published to the Azure Data
Studio extension marketplace, or just shared among your team or community. To do this, you need to install
another npm package from the command line:
npm install -g vsce

Navigate to the base directory of the extension, and run vsce package . I had to add in a couple of extra lines to
stop the vsce tool from complaining:

"repository": {
"type": "git",
"url": "https://github.com/kevcunnane/ssmskeymap.git"
},
"bugs": {
"url": "https://github.com/kevcunnane/ssmskeymap/issues"
},
Once this was done, my ssmskeymap-0.1.0.vsix file was created and ready to install and share with the world!

Publish your extension to the marketplace

The Azure Data Studio extension marketplace is not totally implemented yet, but the current process is to host the
extension VSIX somewhere (for example, a GitHub Release page) then submit a PR updating this JSON file with
your extension info.

Next steps
In this tutorial, you learned how to:
Create an extension project
Install the extension generator
Create your extension
Test your extension
Package your extension
Publish your extension to the marketplace
We hope after reading this you’ll be inspired to build your own extension for Azure Data Studio. We have support
for Dashboard Insights (pretty graphs that run against your SQL Server), a number of SQL -specific APIs, and a
huge existing set of extension points inherited from Visual Studio Code.
If you have an idea but are not sure how to get started, please open an issue or tweet at the team: azuredatastudio.
You can always refer to the Visual Studio Code extension guide because it covers all the existing APIs and patterns.
To learn how to work with T-SQL in Azure Data Studio, complete the T-SQL Editor tutorial:
Use the Transact-SQL editor to create database objects.
 Azure Data Studio extensibility APIs
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Azure Data Studio provides an API that extensions can use to interact with other parts of Azure Data Studio, such
as Object Explorer. These APIs are available from the src/sql/sqlops.d.ts file and are described below.

Connection Management
sqlops.connection

Top-level Functions
getCurrentConnection(): Thenable<sqlops.connection.Connection> Gets the current connection based on the
active editor or Object Explorer selection.
getActiveConnections(): Thenable<sqlops.connection.Connection[]> Gets a list of all the user's connections
that are active. Returns an empty list if there are no such connections.
getCredentials(connectionId: string): Thenable<{ [name: string]: string }> Gets a dictionary containing
the credentials associated with a connection. These would otherwise be returned as part of the options
dictionary under a sqlops.connection.Connection object but get stripped from that object.
Connection

options: { [name: string]: string } The dictionary of connection options

providerName: string The name of the connection provider (e.g. "MSSQL")
connectionId: string The unique identifier for the connection
Example Code

> let connection = sqlops.connection.getCurrentConnection();

connection: {
providerName: ‘MSSQL’,
connectionId: ‘d97bb63a-466e-4ef0-ab6f-00cd44721dcc’,
options: {
server: ‘mairvine-sql-server’,
user: ‘sa’,
authenticationType: ‘sqlLogin’,
…
},
…
}
> let credentials = sqlops.connection.getCredentials(connection.connectionId);
credentials: {
password: ‘abc123’
}

Object Explorer
sqlops.objectexplorer

Top-level Functions
getNode(connectionId: string, nodePath?: string): Thenable<sqlops.objectexplorer.ObjectExplorerNode> Get
an Object Explorer node corresponding to the given connection and path. If no path is given, it returns the
top-level node for the given connection. If there is no node at the given path, it returns undefined . Note:
 The nodePath for an object is generated by the SQL Tools Service backend and is difficult to construct by
hand. Future API improvements will allow you to get nodes based on metadata you provide about the node,
such as name, type and schema.
getActiveConnectionNodes(): Thenable<sqlops.objectexplorer.ObjectExplorerNode> Get all active Object
Explorer connection nodes.
findNodes(connectionId: string, type: string, schema: string, name: string, database: string,
parentObjectNames: string[]): Thenable<sqlops.objectexplorer.ObjectExplorerNode[]>
Find all Object Explorer nodes that match the given metadata. The schema , database , and
parentObjectNames arguments should be undefined when they are not applicable. parentObjectNames is a
list of non-database parent objects, from highest to lowest level in Object Explorer, that the desired object is
under. For example, when searching for a column "column1" that belongs to a table "schema1.table1" and
database "database1" with connection ID connectionId , call
findNodes(connectionId, 'Column', undefined, 'column1', 'database1', ['schema1.table1']) . Also see the list
of types that SQL Operations Studio supports by default for this API call.
ObjectExplorerNode
connectionId: string The id of the connection that the node exists under
nodePath: string The path of the node, as used for a call to the getNode function.
nodeType: string A string representing the type of the node
nodeSubType: string A string representing the subtype of the node
nodeStatus: string A string representing the status of the node
label: string The label for the node as it appears in Object Explorer
isLeaf: boolean Whether the node is a leaf node and therefore has no children
metadata: sqlops.ObjectMetadata Metadata describing the object represented by this node
errorMessage: string Message shown if the node is in an error state
isExpanded(): Thenable<boolean> Whether the node is currently expanded in Object Explorer
setExpandedState(expandedState: vscode.TreeItemCollapsibleState): Thenable<void> Set whether the node is
expanded or collapsed. If the state is set to None, the node will not be changed.
setSelected(selected: boolean, clearOtherSelections?: boolean): Thenable<void> Set whether the node is
selected. If clearOtherSelections is true, clear any other selections when making the new selection. If it is
false, leave any existing selections. clearOtherSelections defaults to true when selected is true and false
when selected is false.
getChildren(): Thenable<sqlops.objectexplorer.ObjectExplorerNode[]> Get all the child nodes of this node.
Returns an empty list if there are no children.
getParent(): Thenable<sqlops.objectexplorer.ObjectExplorerNode> Get the parent node of this node. Returns
undefined if there is no parent.
Example Code
 private async interactWithOENode(selectedNode: sqlops.objectexplorer.ObjectExplorerNode): Promise<void> {
let choices = ['Expand', 'Collapse', 'Select', 'Select (multi)', 'Deselect', 'Deselect (multi)'];
if (selectedNode.isLeaf) {
choices[0] += ' (is leaf)';
choices[1] += ' (is leaf)';
} else {
let expanded = await selectedNode.isExpanded();
if (expanded) {
choices[0] += ' (is expanded)';
} else {
choices[1] += ' (is collapsed)';
}
}
let parent = await selectedNode.getParent();
if (parent) {
choices.push('Get Parent');
}
let children = await selectedNode.getChildren();
children.forEach(child => choices.push(child.label));
let choice = await vscode.window.showQuickPick(choices);
let nextNode: sqlops.objectexplorer.ObjectExplorerNode = undefined;
if (choice === choices[0]) {
selectedNode.setExpandedState(vscode.TreeItemCollapsibleState.Expanded);
} else if (choice === choices[1]) {
selectedNode.setExpandedState(vscode.TreeItemCollapsibleState.Collapsed);
} else if (choice === choices[2]) {
selectedNode.setSelected(true);
} else if (choice === choices[3]) {
selectedNode.setSelected(true, false);
} else if (choice === choices[4]) {
selectedNode.setSelected(false);
} else if (choice === choices[5]) {
selectedNode.setSelected(false, true);
} else if (choice === 'Get Parent') {
nextNode = parent;
} else {
let childNode = children.find(child => child.label === choice);
nextNode = childNode;
}
if (nextNode) {
let updatedNode = await sqlops.objectexplorer.getNode(nextNode.connectionId, nextNode.nodePath);
this.interactWithOENode(updatedNode);
}
}

vscode.commands.registerCommand('mssql.objectexplorer.interact', () => {
sqlops.objectexplorer.getActiveConnectionNodes().then(activeConnections => {
vscode.window.showQuickPick(activeConnections.map(connection => connection.label + ' ' +
connection.connectionId)).then(selection => {
let selectedNode = activeConnections.find(connection => connection.label + ' ' +
connection.connectionId === selection);
this.interactWithOENode(selectedNode);
});
});
});

Proposed APIs
We have added proposed APIs to allow extensions to display custom UI in dialogs, wizards, and document tabs,
among other capabilities. See the proposed API types file for more documentation, though be aware that these
APIs are subject to change at any time. Examples of how to use some of these APIs can be found in the
"sqlservices" sample extension.
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APPLIES TO: SQL Server (starting with 2008) Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Parallel Data Warehouse
This topic gives the basics about how to find and use the Microsoft Transact-SQL (T-SQL ) reference topics. T-SQL
is central to using Microsoft SQL products and services. All tools and applications that communicate with a SQL
database do so by sending T-SQL commands.

Tools that use T-SQL

Some of the Microsoft tools that issue T-SQL commands are:
SQL Server Management Studio
SQL Server Data Tools.
sqlcmd.
Azure Data Studio (preview ).

Locate the Transact-SQL reference topics

To find T-SQL topics, use search at the top right of this page, or use the table of contents on the left side of the
page. You can also type a T-SQL key word in the Management Studio Query Editor window, and press F1.

Find system views

To find the system tables, views, functions, and procedures, see these links which are in the Using relational
databases section of the SQL documentation.
System catalog Views
System compatibility views
System dynamic management views
System functions
System information schema views
System stored procedures
System tables

"Applies to" references

The T-SQL reference topics encompass multiple versions of SQL Server, starting with 2008, as well as the other
Azure SQL services. Near the top of each topic is a section that indicates which products and services support
subject of the topic.
For example, this topic applies to all versions, and has the following label.
APPLIES TO: SQL Server (starting with 2008) Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Parallel Data Warehouse
Another example, the following label indicates a topic that applies only to Azure SQL Data Warehouse and Parallel
Data Warehouse.
APPLIES TO: SQL Server Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Data Warehouse Parallel Data
Warehouse
In some cases, the topic is used by a product or service, but all of the arguments are not supported. In this case,
additional Applies to sections are inserted into the appropriate argument descriptions in the body of the topic.

Get help from the MSDN forum

For online help, see the MSDN Transact-SQL Forum.

See other language references

The SQL docs include these other language references:
XQuery Language Reference
Integration Services Language Reference
Replication Language Reference
Analysis Services Language Reference

Next steps
Now that you understand how to find the T-SQL reference topics, you are ready to:
Work through a short tutorial about how to write T-SQL, see Tutorial: Writing Transact-SQL Statements.
View the Transact-SQL Syntax Conventions (Transact-SQL ).
 Azure Data Studio FAQ
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What is Azure Data Studio?

Azure Data Studio is a new open source, cross-platform desktop environment for data professionals using the
Azure Data family of on-premises and cloud data platforms on Windows, MacOS, and Linux. Previously released
under the preview name SQL Operations Studio, Azure Data Studio offers a modern editor experience with
lightning fast IntelliSense, code snippets, source control integration, and an integrated terminal. It is engineered
with the data platform user in mind, with built in charting of query result sets and customizable dashboards.
Research has shown that users spend an order of magnitude more time working on query editing than on any
other task with SQL Server Management Studio. For that reason, Azure Data Studio has been designed to focus
deeply on the functionality that is used the most, with additional experiences made available as optional extensions
into the product. This allows every user to customize their environment to the workflows that they use most often.

How much does Azure Data Studio cost?

Azure Data Studio is free for private or commercial use.

Who should use Azure Data Studio

Anyone can use Azure Data Studio. However, it is designed to simplify tasks performed by database developers,
database administrators, system administrators, and independent software vendors.

What can I do with Azure Data Studio?

Azure Data Studio is built on top of Visual Studio Code and offers a lightweight, keyboard focused modern code
workflow experience when working with SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL DW. Azure Data Studio
makes the core experiences that you rely on every day simple and easy with built-in features such as multiple tab
windows, a rich SQL editor, IntelliSense, keyword completion, code snippets & code navigation and source control
integration (Git and TFS ). You can execute on-demand queries, view & save results as text, JSON, or Excel, edit
data, organize & manage your favorite database connections, and browse database objects in a familiar object
browsing experience.
Use your favorite command-line tools (for example, Bash, PowerShell, sqlcmd, bcp, psql, and ssh) in the Integrated
Terminal window right within the Azure Data Studio user interface. Easily generate and execute CREATE and
INSERT scripts for your database objects to create copies of your database for development or testing purposes.
Boost your productivity with smart code snippets and rich graphical experiences that create new databases and
database objects (such as tables, views, stored procedures, users, logins, roles, etc.) or update existing database
objects. Use rich customizable dashboards to monitor and quickly troubleshoot performance bottlenecks in your
databases on-premises, in Azure or any cloud.
Azure Data Studio offers a consistent experience to back up and restore your databases. With planned support for
SQL Server Always-On Availability Groups, you can easily configure, monitor, and troubleshoot AGs for your
mission-critical SQL Server databases and quickly failover to a secondary database during a disaster. Azure Data
Studio has been designed to make you more productive in the DevOps lifecycle of your databases of choice on the
operating systems of your choice. As a result, you are always in control, and you can reduce risks, solve problems
faster, and continuously deliver value that exceeds customers’ expectations.
Is Azure Data Studio Open Source?
The source code for Azure Data Studio and its data providers is available on GitHub. The source code for the front-
end Azure Data Studio (which is based on Visual Studio Code) is available under a source code EULA that provides
rights to modify and use the software, but not to redistribute it or host it in a cloud service. The source code for the
data providers is available under the MIT license at https://github.com/Microsoft/sqltoolsservice.

Do we plan to open source SSMS?

No. However, next generation multi-OS CLI and GUI tools are open source. For example, the mssql extension for
VS Code, mssql-scripter, and msql-CLI are all open source on GitHub. The source code for Azure Data Studo is
available on GitHub.

Now that there is Azure Data Studio, does Microsoft plan to deprecate
SSMS and SSDT?
No. Investments in flagship Windows tools (SSMS, SSDT, PowerShell) will continue in addition to the next
generation of multi-OS and multi-DB CLI and GUI tools. The goal is to offer customers the choice of using the
tools they want on the platforms of their choice for their scenarios. Azure Data Studio is more tightly focused on
the experiences around query editing and data development, which research has shown is the most heavily used
capability in SQL Server Management Studio by an order of magnitude. Additional high-value administrative
features such as backup, restore, agent job management, and server profiling are also available as extensions in
Azure Data Studio. Azure Data Studio is also cross-platform, allowing users to work on their platform of choice.
However, SQL Server Management Studio still offers the broadest range of administrative functions and remains
the flagship tool for platform management tasks.

When Should I Use Azure Data Studio vs SQL Server Management

Studio?
Use Azure Data Studio if you:
Spend most of your time editing or executing queries.
Need the ability to quickly chart and visualize resultsets.
Can execute most administrative tasks via the integrated terminal using sqlcmd or Powershell.
Have minimal need for wizard experiences.
Do not need to do deep administrative or platform related configuration.
Need to run on macOS or Linux.
Use SQL Server Management Studio if you:
Spend most of your time on database administration tasks.
Are doing complex administrative or platform configuration.
Are doing security management, including user management, vulnerability assessment, and configuration of
security features.
Need to make use of performance tuning advisors and dashboards.
Use database diagrams and table designers.
Are doing import/export of DACPACs.
Need access to Registered Servers.
Make use of sqlcmd mode, live query stats, or client statistics.

Feature Comparison
Shell features
FEATURE AZURE DATA STUDIO SSMS

Azure Sign-In Yes Yes

Dashboard Yes

Extensions Yes

Integrated Terminal Yes

Object Explorer Yes Yes

Object Scripting Yes Yes

Project System Yes

Select from Table Yes Yes

Source Code Control Yes

Task Pane Yes

Theming Yes

Dark Mode Yes

Azure Resource Explorer Preview

Generate Scripts Wizard Yes

Import\Export DACPAC Yes

Object Properties Yes

Table Designer Yes

Query Editor
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Chart Viewer Yes

Export Results to CSV, JSON, XLSX Yes

IntelliSense Yes Yes

Snippets Yes Yes

Show Plan Preview Yes

Client Statistics Yes

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Live Query Stats Yes

Query Options Yes

Results to File Yes

Results to Text Yes

Spatial Viewer Yes

SQLCMD Yes

T-SQL Debugger Yes

Operating System Support

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Windows Yes Yes

macOS Yes

Linux Yes

Data Engineering
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External Data Wizard Preview

HDFS Integration Preview

Notebooks Preview

Database Administration
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Backup / Restore Yes Yes

Flat File Import Preview Yes

SQL Agent Preview Yes

SQL Profiler Preview Yes

Always On Yes

Always Encrypted Yes

Copy Data Wizard Yes

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Data Tuning Advisor Yes

Database Diagrams Yes

Error Log Viewer Yes

Maintenance Plans Yes

Multi-Server Query Yes

Policy Based Management Yes

PolyBase Yes

Query Store Yes

Registered Servers Yes

Replication Yes

Security Management Yes

Service Broker Yes

SQL Mail Yes

Template Explorer Yes

Vulnerability Assessment Yes

XEvent Management Yes

Azure Data Studio is missing a feature that is in SSMS/SSDT. Will you

add it?
It depends on the scenario & customer/business need. To help prioritize, file a suggestion on GitHub.

I understand Azure Data Studio and the mssql extension for VS Code
are powered by a new tools service that uses SMO APIs under the
covers. Is SMO available on Linux and macOS?
The SMO APIs are not yet available on Linux or macOS in a consumable way. We ported over a subset of the
SMO APIs to .NET Core that we needed for Azure Data Studio and we plan to expand as part of the roadmap. The
SQL Tools Service is on GitHub: https://github.com/Microsoft/sqltoolsservice.

Do you plan to port the DACFx APIs and/or sqlpackage.exe and/or

SSDT to Linux and macOS?
It's on the longer-term roadmap. To help prioritize, file a suggestion on GitHub.
Will SQL PowerShell cmdlets be available on Linux and macOS?
SQL PowerShell is available today on the PowerShell gallery and you can use it on Windows to work with SQL
Server running anywhere, including SQL on Linux. Offering the SQL PowerShell cmdlets on Linux & macOS is in
the roadmap. To help prioritize, file a suggestion on GitHub.

Who usually uses Azure Data Studio?

Developers and DBAs are usually the users of Azure Data Studio.

Does Azure Data Studio integrate with Azure SQL Data Warehouse?
Yes. Azure Data Studio support for Azure SQL Data Warehouse is currently in preview, together with Azure SQL
Database Managed Instance, and SQL Server 2019 Big Data.

Why is Azure Data Studio important for the new version of SQL Server?
As SQL Server extends its capabilities into the Big Data space, it needs new tooling to support those use cases. For
that reason, Azure Data Studio is today shipping a new preview experience of support for SQL Server Big Data,
including the first ever notebook experience in the SQL Server toolset and a new Create External Table wizard that
makes accessing data from remote SQL Server and Oracle instances easy and fast.