Along with being integrated in the full Visual Studio SKUs, database developers without Visual Studio can install them for free as standalone tools also. These tools provide end-to-end support for ...

To complete this quickstart, you need Azure Data Studio, and access to a SQL Server instance. Install Azure Data Studio. If you don't have access to a SQL Server, select your platform from the ...

To develop a data-connected application in Visual Studio, you typically install the database system on your local development machine, and then deploy the application and database to a production ...

In SQL Server 2016 there have been several significant changes to the SQL Client Tools. Central to these changes are two primary goals: The ability to ship tooling updates on a regular, monthly ...

I've been playing with the new SQL Server Data Tools, and I'm impressed by the way Microsoft has gotten the product out for review and is improving it with user-requested functionality.

Microsoft's SQL Server toolbox is a complicated ecosystem, and differentiating one tool from another is a challenge. Vicky Harp, lead program manager of the SQL Server tools team, clarifies ...

I've been playing with the new SQL Server Data Tools, and I'm impressed by the way Microsoft has gotten the product out for review and is improving it with user-requested functionality.