{"id":29061,"date":"2019-11-18T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T17:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sql-server\/blog\/?p=29061"},"modified":"2019-11-15T10:11:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T18:11:00","slug":"reflections-on-pass-summit-2019-from-the-sql-tools-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sql-server\/blog\/2019\/11\/18\/reflections-on-pass-summit-2019-from-the-sql-tools-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on PASS Summit 2019 from the SQL Tools Team"},"content":{"rendered":"
Last September at Microsoft Ignite 2018, Rohan Kumar, Corporate Vice President of Azure Data, announced the general availability of Azure Data Studio. This month, a little over a year later, Azure Data Studio took PASS Summit 2019 by storm, from keynote demos to community sessions to customer conversations at the Microsoft booth, we experienced overwhelming support for the immense growth of Azure Data Studio since its general availability announcement.<\/p>\n
The conference kicked off with an exciting keynote by Rohan, who announced several general availability and preview milestones for Azure Data Studio and SQL Server, including the general availability of SQL Server 2019, the preview of Azure SQL Database Edge,<\/a> and the preview of Azure Arc<\/a>. Rohan\u2019s keynote was enriched by demos from team members, with several using Azure Data Studio to demonstrate the power of the newly announced capabilities of SQL Server. My favorite example is Asad Khan\u2019s, Partner Director of Program Management for SQL Server and Azure SQL, demo of a connected factory powered by SQL. In his demo, he highlighted Notebooks in Azure Data Studio while showing how devices collecting data at the edge can stream data into a SQL Server 2019 Big Data Cluster. Then, he visualized the data using the SandDance extension<\/a> that received a huge spike in applause from the audience.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In addition to the day one keynote, Azure Data Studio was demoed in 16 total sessions including four sessions hosted by community members centered entirely around Azure Data Studio. Notebooks in particular made a huge splash at PASS Summit. By 4:00 PM on the first day of the conference, Steve Clement, an attendee tweeted, \u201cFive sessions so far this week and all 5 have used ADS Notebooks. I\u2019m noticing a theme here. #PASSSummit.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n For those looking forward to the future of SQL Server Tooling, Vicky Harp, Principal Program Manager Lead, SQL Server Tools and Udeesha Gautam, Senior Software Engineering Manager, SQL Server Tools, gave a first look at upcoming features in a highly attended session of over 350 attendees titled What\u2019s new in SQL Server Tools<\/em>. Highlights from their session include:<\/p>\n\n