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microsoft/azuredatastudio
Azure Data Studio is a data management and development tool with connectivity to popular cloud and on-premises databases. Azure Data Studio supports Windows, macOS, and Linux, with immediate capability to connect to Azure SQL and SQL Server. Browse the extension library for more database support options including MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.
Azure Data Studio was Microsoft's cross-platform SQL Server / Azure SQL GUI, built on the same Electron + VS Code base as VS Code itself. It's now retired as of February 28, 2026 — the README leads with this. Microsoft is pointing users to VS Code + the MSSQL extension instead.
- The VS Code lineage means the extension model is real: the architecture genuinely supported third-party extensions for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc., not just SQL Server
- Custom ESLint plugins in `.eslintplugin/` (layering checks, import patterns, NLS string validation) show the team took code hygiene seriously for a large TypeScript monorepo
- The build system is thorough — per-platform pipeline YAMLs, mangle/treeshaking steps, asar packaging, and a full localization pipeline across 10 languages
- It's retired. The last push date is the retirement date. There is no roadmap, no future releases, and the download page will eventually go dark — adopting this now would mean inheriting a dead codebase
- The repo is a VS Code fork with heavy SQL-specific layering on top; the forked architecture made it hard to pull upstream VS Code improvements without merge pain, which contributed to why Microsoft gave up on it
- The extension marketplace was never as well-stocked as VS Code's, so the multi-database story in practice was thinner than the README implies