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People who fall slightly outside of that audience – say, Windows users who need to performance tune queries – may also use ADS, but have a less satisfactory user experience. I’m being exceedingly careful here about marking a narrow audience.

Don’t mind using a less mature, less documented, rapidly changing tool.

Want to share some queries in an easy-to-follow-along format (Jupyter notebooks).

Need to source-control queries, say with Github.

Don’t need to tune those queries to make them go faster.

Use Macs or Linux as their daily workstation.

As of this writing, it’s best suited for people who: It’s less about management, and more about code authorship. Azure Data Studio (ADS) is kinda like SSMS, but for developers. However, for some of us – a very small minority, and I’m in that group – mid-2019 marks the time to add a new tool to your toolkit.

Azure data studio postgresql how to#

In April 2019, most people who work with Microsoft SQL Server should be using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS.) It’s free, very robust, and it’s easy to find tutorials that show you how to do what you want to do. Microsoft isn’t just building one good free tool. Pick one, and you just pray that the maker keeps updating it and adding new features. It’s a sea of half-ass, fully-expensive tools with a mishmash of feature coverage. I spend a lot of time jumping back & forth between SQL Server and Postgres, and lemme just tell you, the tooling options on the other side of the fence are a hot mess.

Azure data studio postgresql install#

You can just download it, install it, and take advantage of things like the cool new execution plan est-vs-actual numbers (which also cause presenters all over to curse, knowing that they have to redo a bunch of screenshots.) You don’t have to ask the boss for upgrade money. Your job still functions the same way using the same tool, and the tool keeps getting better.Īnd it’s free. Every time there’s a new release of SQL Server or SQL Server Management Studio, you can grab the latest version of SSMS and keep right on keepin’ on.

Yes, it still has bugs (all software does), but they’ve been working hard on making it less buggy, as evidenced by the release notes: “Crashes And Freezes Into Me” is the name of my Dave Matthews Band cover band (Update Apr 27: if you want the debugger, use Visual Studio – download.) No, SSMS 18 doesn’t run on Windows 8 or older. Yes, they removed database diagrams and the debugger.

Yes, it’s still free, and yes, they’re still adding features. Here’s the official announcement, the download page, and the release notes. Yesterday, SQL Server Management Studio 18.0 shipped.