We are excited to announce that SQL Operations Studio is now available in preview. SQL Operations Studio is a free, light-weight tool for modern database development and operations for SQL Server on Windows, Linux and Docker, Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Data Warehouse on Windows, Mac or Linux machines.
SQL Client for Mac OS X that works with MS SQL Server [closed]. A GUI, but it would be nice to have for the color coding and resultset grid. I'd rather not have to use a VM. Is there a SQL client for Mac OS X that works with MS SQL Server? Basically, download the server jar file, put it somewhere memorable and then point at it from Tools. RazorSQL provides MS SQL Server GUI tools for easily querying, browsing, editing, and managing MS SQL Server databases. Listed below are a couple of examples of MS SQL Server GUI tools provided by RazorSQL. The following is a screen shot of the MS SQL Server create table GUI tool The following is a screen shot of the MS SQL Server edit table.
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It’s easy to connect to Microsoft SQL Server with SQL Operations Studio and perform routine database operations—overall lowering the learning curve for non-professional database administrators who have responsibility for maintaining their organization’s SQL-based data assets.
There are also fundamental changes to SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and the other tools included in the SQL Server Client Tools package. These changes help align the release and distribution of the SQL Client Tools with the processes currently used by the SQL Server Data Tools.
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As more organizations adopt DevOps for application lifecycle management, developers and other non-professional database administrators find themselves taking responsibility for developing and operating databases. These individuals often do not have time to learn the intricacies of their database environment, making hard to perform even the most routine tasks. Microsoft SQL Operations Studio takes a prescriptive approach to performing routine tasks, allowing users to get tasks done fast while continuing to learn on the job.
Users can leverage their favorite command line tools (e.g. Bash, PowerShell, sqlcmd, bcp and ssh) in the integrated terminal window right within the SQL Operations Studio user interface. They can easily generate and execute CREATE and INSERT scripts for SQL database objects to create copies of their database for development or testing purposes. Database developers can increase their productivity with smart T-SQL code snippets and rich graphical experiences to create new databases and database objects (such as tables, views, stored procedures, users, logins, roles, etc.) or to update existing database objects. They also have the ability to create rich customizable dashboards to monitor and quickly detect performance bottlenecks in your SQL databases on-premises or in Azure.
SQL Operations Studio comes at an opportune time for users who use clients running macOS or Linux. Many users who use or plan to deploy SQL Server 2017, which became generally available in September 2017, also use Macs as their clients. They will now be able to use a free database development and operations tool from Microsoft that runs natively on their OS of choice.
SQL Operations Studio has been forked from Visual Studio Code with the objective to make it highly extensible. It’s built on an extensible microservices architecture and includes the SQL tools service built on .NET Core. Users will be able to download it from GitHub or Microsoft.
Eric Kang has done some great overview videos. Check out the latest one on Channel 9, below, or attend one of the Connect() pre-recorded sessions going on this week.
We hope you love this new tool. It’s received great reviews from the community testing it in private beta and, with your feedback, we can make it even better. Join us in improving SQL Operations Studio by contributing directly at the GitHub repo.
If you have questions or would like to add comments, please use the comments section below. We would love to hear from you!
I recently had to set up a MS SQL database on my Mac for a client project, if you ever have to do this here is a mini tutorial.
In this post I am using VMWare Fusion for virtualisation, but you could use something else and the instructions should be mostly portable.
Go to https://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools and download a VM (Virtual Machine) for your Mac. I will be using Windows 7 (the version of IE doesn't matter).
Install the virtual machine and log in.
As you download the Windows VM you can also download the free version or MS SQL.
At the time of writing the tiny_tds gem - the gem needed to access MS SQL - only supports MS SQL up to version 2012. So version 2014 won't work.
Go to http://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=29062 and download MS SQL Express 2012, make sure to get the version with tools (named something like ENUx86SQLEXPRWTx86ENU.exe).
If you downloaded MS SQL Express on your Mac, you will need to make it accessible to your Windows VM. If you are using Fusion you can simply drag and drop the installer to Windows.
Run the installer and just install the default components. Accept the defaults in all other screens.
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In Windows, open SQL Server Management Studio. Connect using the provided defaults, then:
Still in SQL Server Management Studio:
In Management Studio:
In the same screen:
You can then close Management Studio.
In Windows, open SQL Server Configuration Manager. Then:
We can now close SQL Server Configuration Manager.
In Windows:
In Windows:
In Windows:
The Network should be set to 'Home network'
In the mac terminal test the connection to the Windows VM:
Note that the IP address will most likely be different on your machine.
This should give you a successful ping. If you get a timeout double check the network settings and firewall in Windows.
If you have an application that can connect to MS SQL on the Mac, I recommend testing the connection from there first before going to Rails. I am using Navicat in my case. Otherwise just skip this step.
In Navicat:
In order to connect to MS SQL, we need to install the necessary libraries in our Mac. Install freetds using homebrew, in the Mac terminal:
In your Gemfile:
Then:bundle
In your database.yml
, add / modify an entry for using the MS SQL db:
Take care to set the values as set previously i.e. host, port, username and password.
When this is done, your Rails application should now be able to connect to the MS SQL Express server running on the VM.
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