Hands on Azure Data Studio: Microsoft's Open Platform for Data Engineering and Analytics

This book provides a detailed walk-through of Microsoft's Azure Data Studio, which represents a paradigm shift from Microsoft, encompassing the company's recent commitment to open-source, multi-platform, and highly extensible software. This book demonstrates that Azure Data Studio (ADS) is a complete 'software platform', enabling database professionals to: - Dramatically improve, simplify, and accelerate daily tasks- Take advantage of Jupyter Notebooks, and share via GitHub- Easily Support both Microsoft and non-Microsoft platforms- Seamlessly work with data in the Cloud, and On-Premise- Collaborate more easily with internal as well as external clients- Add Extensions to customize and add functionality to ADSThis book also reveals that ADS goes well beyond just the SQL query language. In fact, ADS provides an amazing language fusion of SQL, PowerShell, Python and more for a deeply integrated development environment. Whether you are a SQL Developer, Data Engineer, DBA, or other Data Professional this book will give you head-start with this new and exciting developer platform from Microsoft.