

Once everything is set up, I dig through the features and functionality of the mssql extension. That means it also has a lesson on Docker, installing and running an image as well as a quick start on creating a new SQL database in the Azure portal.
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The course starts not only y showing you how to install VS Code (and some VS Code basics) and the extension but also by walking you through how to set up each of the database servers. So you can use this while you are coding on Windows, Mac or Linux and want to do some basic interaction with a SQL Server database.Īs SQL Server examples, I used SQL Server LocalDb on Windows, SQL Server for Linux in a Docker container on a Mac and Azure SQL in the cloud.

Because VS Code is cross-platform, so are all of its extensions. It is the mssql extension which lets you interact with SQL Server in a fairly rich way that belies the lightness of the IDE which it extends.

This is a course on a Visual Studio Code extension that I enjoy using so much that I wanted to share it with you. My latest course on Pluralsight, Cross-platform SQL Server Management for Developers using VS Code, went live earlier this month (just as I was about to hop on a plane for 2 weeks of conference travel!)
