Retiring Azure Data Studio is a not a wise decision, it is a bad mistake !

[awbmansour]

Type: Feature Request

Azure Data Studio was the right product for the development community. It provides a central Data oriented development environment, where source code, data stores, debugging and troubleshooting are all centralized in one place.

Retiting Data Studio without providing a similar or comparable alternative is not a wise decision.

The classical MSQL Studio is not a good alternative to Data Studio and way less in functionality for Data Developers. VS Code with all available extensions today does not provide an alternative either, it does not even come closer to what Data Studio is.

Please, recosnider, or please migrate Data Studio functionality to vs code.

Thank You.

Azure Data Studio version: azuredatastudio 1.51.1 (95e6a0e, 2025-02-08T00:29:26.043Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100
Restricted Mode: No
Preview Features: Disabled
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[simonsabin]

maybe add comment to https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-mssql/wiki/roadmap as to what you'd like to see from ADS in the mssql extension.

[jbauerrfid]

Azure Data Studio also helps when developing on Linux, because SSMS is available for Windows only.

(unless Microsoft wants that all the Linux devs migrate their stuff to PostgreSQL...)

[kburtram]

Thanks for the feedback! We really do want to make sure there’s a solid path forward for Azure Data Studio users well before anything sunsets in 2026.

If there are specific gaps you’re seeing in the vscode-mssql extension, it’d help a lot to have those flagged over here or as a comment on the roadmap. The more detail we have, the better we can prioritize and avoid missing something important.

I’ll close this one out since it’s not something we can act on directly, but totally open to continuing the convo in the places linked above.