PySpark development is now fully supported in Visual Studio Code. Through an extension built for the aforementioned purpose, users can run Spark jobs with SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters.

Microsoft introduced a preview of the latest edition of its flagship RDBMS, SQL Server 2019, highlighting new Big Data capabilities integrated into the core database engine.

check whether SQL Server Integration Services is installed, open Business Intelligence Development Studio and select File > New > Project. This will display a window called New Project.

The mssql extension for Visual Studio Code, used to support SQL Server connections and T-SQL editing, has been updated with IntelliCode functionality and a new Object Explorer, among other new ...

However, one big holdup is that for my day job, I run Visual Studio 2019, SQL Server, and IIS in Windows via Parallels.

Well, apparently SQL Server 2019/2022 run perfectly fine if you can get them installed, but there’s some sort of issue with the installers themselves that prevents them from working properly.