Microsoft is steering SQL Server and Azure SQL developers away from retired Azure Data Studio and toward the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code, a cross-platform replacement that folds query editing, schema work, notebooks, Copilot assistance, and cloud connections into the editor many teams...
Microsoft's abrupt deprecation of the Polyglot Notebooks extension for Visual Studio Code — announced on February 11, 2026 and set to take effect on March 27, 2026 — has sent a shockwave through the .NET, data‑analysis, and SQL communities. The maintainers declared that the extension will be...
What’s Happening?
In an official announcement, Microsoft revealed that Azure Data Studio, which first made its debut in 2018 after initially being known as SQL Operations Studio, will soon join the list of products entering the “Microsoft graveyard.” The long-standing tool for managing...
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