Practical guides and insights for modern data practitioners
In this post I share my thoughts about the Azure Data Studio retirement announcement. For those who missed it, this week Microsoft announced that Azure Data Studio will be retired on February 28th 2026. So that Microsoft can focus on consolidating their efforts into Visual Studio Code. Personal thoughts about the retirement announcement For me … Read more
In this post I want to raise awareness about the fact that the new Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse Target Platform is now included as part of the latest Azure Data Studio update. Which is 1.46. In reality, I have already covered the new target platform in my previous post. Due to the fact that this … Read more
In this post I want to cover how you can create a dacpac for an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL Pool using Azure DevOps. By the end of this post, you will know how to create a dacpac for a dedicated SQL Pool within Azure Pipelines for your CI/CD deployments. Plus, how you can synchronize … Read more
My T-SQL contribution for this month is about Azure Data Studio and my coffee machine. Because the two go together nicely when I am presenting. This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Mikey Bronowski. Mikey has invited us all to talk about outstanding tools of the trade to make our lives awesome. You can find … Read more
In this post I thought I would share some tips about creating Database Projects in Azure Data Studio Insiders build. Because the extension to do this for SQL Server databases is now in preview. I first became aware of this new addition to Azure Data Studio after a post from Wolfgang Strasser. Which you can … Read more
I thought I would have a quick look at the July 2020 Azure Data Studio update in this post. Due to the fact that it was released last week and wanted to check things. You can read the release notes for Azure Data Studio in detail here. Feature tour First thing I was curious about … Read more
I want to cover my experience of testing SQL Server Assessment in Azure Data Studio in this post. Due to the fact I tested it slightly different than most will the first time around. Because I initially tested it against a Windows based container running SQL Server 2017. In fact, I used the same container … Read more