oday, developers can use SQL Server in a variety of environments including on-premises, in datacenters, in virtual machines, in clouds such as Azure, AWS and Google, and also as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering with Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Data Warehouse.
We recently announced SQL Server v.Next CTP1 on Linux and Windows, which brings the power of SQL Server to both Windows — and for the first time ever — Linux. Developers can now create applications with SQL Server on Linux, Windows, Docker, or macOS (via Docker) and then deploy to Linux, Windows, or Docker, on-premises or in the cloud.
As part of this announcement, we have released new SQL tools and also updated existing SQL tools. Developers can use these tools to connect to and work with SQL running anywhere, including SQL Server on Linux, Windows or Docker.
- New mssql extension for Visual Studio Code: Get the free mssql extension from the VS Code marketplace and connect to SQL running anywhere, get IntelliSense and keyword completion while typing T-SQL queries, and run your queries to see results — all within Visual Studio Code and on Linux/macOS/Windows!
- New SQL command line tools for Linux: We’ve created Linux-native versions of your favorite SQL command line tools such as sqlcmdand bcp and sqlpackage and also added the new mssql-conf tool that lets you configure various properties for the SQL Server instance on Linux (e.g., SA password, TCP port and collation).
- New versions of SSMS, SSDT and SQL PowerShell: We have released updated versions (v17.0 RC1) of our flagship SQL Server tools including SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), Visual Studio SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) and SQL PowerShell with support for the SQL Server v.Next on Windows and Linux.
The picture below summarizes the expanded SQL tools portfolio with these announcements. Going forward, we plan to continue our close collaboration with customers and the broader SQL community to enhance our SQL tools portfolio and incrementally create multiplatform SQL tools for developers and database administrators.
[Source:- Technet]
