Microsoft Reveals DevOps Tool for DBAs and Developers
Microsoft is readying a new lightweight database development and management tool that aims to give DBAs and developers common DevOps tooling to manage Microsoft's various on-premises and cloud database offerings. The new Microsoft SQL Operations Studio, demonstrated for the first time at last week's PASS Summit in Seattle, brings together the capabilities of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) with a modern, cross-platform interface.
The company demonstrated the forthcoming tool during the opening PASS keynote, showing the ability to rapidly deploy Linux and Windows Containers into SQL Server, Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Data Warehouse. The first technical preview is set for release in the coming weeks. SQL Operations Studio lets developers and administrators build and manage T-SQL code in a more agile DevOps environment.
"We believe this is the way of the future," said Rohan Kumar, Microsoft's general manager of database systems engineering, who gave the opening keynote at last week's PASS event. "It's in its infancy. We see a lot of devops experiences, [where] development and testing is being used right on containers, but this is only going to get better and SQL is already prepared for it."
Kumar said Microsoft will release a preview for Windows, Mac and Linux clients within the next few weeks. It will enable "smart" T-SQL code snippets and customizable dashboards to monitor and discover performance bottlenecks in SQL databases, both on-premises or in Azure, he explained. "You'll be able to leverage your favorite command line tools like Bash, PowerShell, sqlcmd, bcp and ssh in the Integrated Terminal window," he noted in a blog post. Kumar added that users can contribute directly to SQL Operations Studio via pull requests from the GitHub repository.
Joseph D 'Antonio, a principal consultant with Denny Cherry and Associates and a SQL Server MVP, has been testing SQL Operations Studio for more than six months. "It's missing some functionality but it's a very solid tool, said D 'Antonio, who also is a Redmond contributor. "For the most part, this is VS code, with a nice database layer."
Posted by Jeffrey Schwartz on 11/06/2017 at 12:01 PM