- Release date: Nov 16, 2016
- Release status: Public Preview
The SQL Tools team is excited to announce that the first public preview release of mssql for Visual Studio Code is available in the Visual Studio Code Marketplace. Try it and provide your feedback or report any issue to GitHub Issue Tracker.
If you are new to VS Code and the mssql extension, see the getting started tutorial for step-by-step guides. For more about how-to guides see the mssql extension wiki.
Quick summary of the mssql extension features
This extension makes it easy to connect to, query and modify your SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, and Azure SQL Data Warehouse instances.
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Create and manage your frequent connections to SQL Server, Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Data Warehouse as a profile. The mssql extension keeps the recent history of your connection activities and saves passwords in a secure store, making connecting to your database easy. Create, Edit, Remove and Clear your recent connections. See manage connection profiles for more details.
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Productive T-SQL editor features including IntelliSense with suggestions and auto-completion, syntax highlighting and real-time T-SQL error checks and reporting.
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Execute T-SQL scripts and view results, all with a native Visual Studio Code look and feel. View query results and related messages without needing to tab between them.
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Save query results as CSV or JSON.
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Customize shortcuts, color themes and options to meet your preference.
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This is an open source project under the MIT license. Go check out how to contribute.
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Top customer reported issues in GitHub Issue Tracker.
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Faster performance: Progressive query results. As soon as SQL Server returns results to the extension these should be shown to the user, even for large queries.
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Delivery of additional T-SQL editor features, for example support for Go To Definition and Find All References.
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More bugs fixes and fine tuning of features.
Report issues to Github Issue Tracker and provide your feedback.
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The mssql extension process may crash due to a bug in the product. It requires to restart VS Code to recover. Before restarting VS Code, please save your files.
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Installation Prerequisites: this extension requires the user to install some components needed by .Net Core applications, since this is used for connectivity to SQL Server.
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For Mac OS, see OpenSSL requirement on macOS
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For Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 or lower, see Windows 10 Universal C Runtime requirement
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