You do not need to browse the object in the explorer, check the definition, and come back to the editor again. It can be objects such as tables, stored procedures, and functions. Many times, you need a reference to check the schema object definitions.
Peek Definition/Go to Definition in Visual Studio Code Similarly, if you want to execute a stored procedure that requires you to specify a parameter value, you can hover your mouse, and it suggests you the parameters in that stored procedure. For example, if you want to select the records from a table but that table doesn’t exist in the source database, you get an error message stating: Invalid object name. Visual Studio code editor highlights any errors and warning in the T-SQL as soon as you write it. It also supports code formatting and style rule inference. You also get help for the parameters in stored procedures or functions. As soon as you start typing the code in the SQL editor, it gives you suggestions for the keywords, schema object names such as table, views, columns, functions. VS code SQL editor supports the t-SQL IntelliSense feature similar to the SSMS and Azure data studio. T-SQL IntelliSense features in Visual Studio Code Let’s explore a few exciting features of VS code SQL Server extension. It can save our efforts in setting up profiles on new machines or for your colleagues. You can copy these connections profile and paste it into the new VS code setting file. Suppose you have a lot of connections profiles in your Visual Studio Code. It opens the mssql connections information that we entered earlier in the VS code. It shows the MSSQL:Connections menu.Ĭlick on the Edit in settings.json link. In the settings page, click on MSSQL config... from the left-hand menu. To view JSON file content, navigate to File-> Preferences -> Settings. VS code stores the connection information in a JSON file. View connection details in User Settings JSON You can expand a database to view its objects such as tables, views, functions, stored procedures, etc. It connects to SQL Server, and it shows the databases, security, and server objects. Specify a profile name for this connection to SQL Server. If you choose SQL login, it asks for the credential details of SQL login as well.
For a Windows authentication, choose an integrated method. Next, select the authentication mode from either as SQL Login or Integrated. By default, if we do not enter any database name, VS code connects to the master database. Press Enter, and you get prompt for a database name. You can also specify ADO.NET connecting string. It opens a prompt to ask for a server name. Now, let’s add a new connection to SQL Server in VS code. It installs, enables the extension globally along with the SQL tools service for the mssql extension.
You can search for a specific extension in the marketplace.Ĭlick on Install for SQL Server (mssql) extension.
It treats the whole script as a regular file.Ĭlick on recommendation, and it opens the recommended extension for SQL Server. In the below image, we see that you do not get different color codes for the database object. We can work on SQL scripts without extension as well, but it does not give added functionality to work on T-SQL. For example, if we open the T-SQL script, it recommends you for the below extension. We need to use extensions in the VS code to work with these languages. It supports various programming languages t-SQL, Python, PHP, AWS CLI, PowerShell, etc. Attach collection now again and it will be online and functional.In the previous article, Getting started with Visual Studio Code (VS Code), we took a detailed overview of the popular code editor. It will appear as “Offline” collection.Ħ. At this point, you will be able to see this collection in TFS Admin console when you go to Collections screen. The servicing needs to be scheduled and completed before the host can be started”.Ĥ. TFSConfig Recover /ConfigurationDB:ServerName DatabaseName /CollectionDB:ServerName CollectionDatabaseNameĪt the end of this command, you will see an error message “The host ‘Collection Name’ can not be started. If you don’t run this command and go straight in to TFS Admin Console to attach database, it will not display this collection there as it thinks there are no Detached Collection on server that can be attached here. You need to use TFSConfig Recover command to repair collection database such that it is ready to be attached. Restore collection database on sql serverģ. You have backup of collection database on your TFS server where you want to attach databaseĢ. Not talking about in what situation you may have to do this operation of attaching collection database on another server while it was not detached from live server:ġ.