What is Microsoft SQL Operations Studio?

Introduction

SQL Operations Studio is a free, light-weight data management tool that runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, for managing SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, and Azure SQL Data Warehouse;

Download and Install instruction for SQL Operations Studio Public Preview available here: Download SQL Operations Studio

Below is the feature list of SQL Operations Studio:

• Cross-Platform DB management for Windows, macOS and Linux with simple XCopy deployment
• SQL Server Connection Management with Connection Dialog, Server Groups, and Registered Servers
  
  
  
• Object Explorer supporting schema browsing and contextual command execution
  
  
• T-SQL Query Editor with advanced coding features such as autosuggestions, error diagnostics, tooltips, formatting and peek definition.
  
  
• Query Results Viewer with advanced data grid supporting large result sets, export to JSON\CSV\Excel, query plan and charting
  
  
• Management Dashboard supporting customizable widgets with drill-through actionable insights
• Visual Data Editor that enables direct row insertion, update and deletion into tables
• Backup and Restore dialogs that enables advanced customization and remote file system browsing, configured tasks can be executed or scripted
• Task History window to view current task execution status, completion results with error messages and task T-SQL scripting
• Scripting support to generate CREATE, SELECT and DROP statements for database objects
• Workspaces with full Git integration and Find In Files support to managing T-SQL script libraries
• Modern light-weight shell with theming, user settings, full screen support, integrated terminal and numerous other features

T-SQL code snippets

It also provides T-SQL code snippets which generate the proper T-SQL syntax to create databases, tables, views, stored procedures, users, logins, roles, etc., and to update existing database objects. To learn more, see Create and use code snippets.

(T-SQL) IntelliSense

SQL Operations Studio offers a modern, keyboard-focused T-SQL coding experience like SQL Server Management Studio that makes your everyday tasks easier with built-in features, such as multiple tab windows, a rich T-SQL editor, IntelliSense, keyword completion, code snippets, code navigation, and source control integration (Git).

Connection management (server groups)

Server groups provide a way to organize and share connection information for the servers and databases you work with. For details, see Server groups.

Integrated Terminal

Use your favorite command-line tools (for example, Bash, PowerShell, sqlcmd, bcp, and ssh) in the Integrated Terminal window right within the SQL Operations Studio (preview) user interface. To learn about the integrated terminal, see Integrated terminal.

Information from MSOS documentation: Microsoft SQL Operations Studio

Conclusion

It is a nice lightweight cross platform tool for SQL Developers and DBAs. I found it very intuitive and easy to use for managing database. Nice step by Microsoft toward OSS and cross platform development using such good Electron based tool rather SQL Server 2017 is also cross platform.

Introduction to Angular 4 and TypeScript- Setting Up the Development Environment

In this article, you are going to learn that how setup the development environment for Angular and TypeScript.
TABLE OF CONTENT

• Introduction
  • What is Angular?
  • Why do we need Angular?
  • Architecture and Building Blocks of Angular Apps
• => Setting Up the Development Environment
• Your First Angular App
• Structure of Angular Projects
• Webpack
• TypeScript Fundamentals
  • What is TypeScript?
  • Creating First TypeScript Program
  • Declaring Variables
  • Types
  • Type Assertions
  • Arrow Functions
  • Interfaces
  • Classes
  • Objects
  • Constructors
  • Access Modifiers
  • Access Modifiers in Constructor Parameters
  • Properties
  • Modules
• Angular Fundamentals
  • Creating Components
  • Generating Components Using Angular CLI
  • Templates
  • Directives
  • Services
  • Dependency Injection
  • Generating Services Using Angular CLI
• Exercise

Introduction

Before we start code with Angular, there are some prerequisites to install first. In this article we set up everything what we need to start work with Angular 4. Before we more further to learn Angular we need to make some decisions related to selection of programming language, Editor and setup our tools to get everything ready.

What Language to select for Angular?

There several languages we could use to build an Angular application. Either we can use JavaScript or TrypeScript.

JavaScript

The JavaScript language specification standard is officially called ECMAScript or ES. Most browsers don't yet support higher version ES 6 named ES 6. So, ES 6 code must first be translated to ES 5. Code developed with ES 6 must be compiled by a tool that converts that ES 5 syntax to comparable ES 5 syntax before the browser executes it. That way we as developers get the benefits of the new ES 6 productivity features and the browsers still get code they understand. Since Angular is a JavaScript library we could use any of the many compile to JavaScript languages to build our Angular application. But the most common language choices for Angular include the ES 5 version of JavaScript. ES 5 code runs in the browser today without translation so no compile step is required. If we want to take advantage of some of the new ES 6 features to improve productivity such as classes, the let statement and arrow syntax, we can write our Angular code using ES 6. We then translate our code to ES 5 before running it.

TypeScript

Another language is TypeScript. TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript and must be translated. One of the key benefits of TypeScript is its strong typing, meaning that everything has a data type. Because of this strong typing, TypeScript has great tooling including inline documentation, syntax checking, code navigation, and advanced refactoring’s so TypeScript helps us better reason about our code. The Angular team itself takes advantage of these benefits and uses TypeScript to build Angular 2. Most of the demo code in the Angular documentation at present also uses TypeScript. For these reasons, TypeScript is the language of choice for many Angular developers and we will also use this throughout entire tutorial.
TypeScript is an open source language that is a superset of JavaScript and compiles to plain JavaScript through translation. It is strongly typed so every variable, every function, and every function parameter can have a data type.
How does TypeScript determine the appropriate types when using JavaScript libraries that are not strongly typed? By using TypeScript type definition files. These files contain the definition of each type in a library. These files are named with the library name .d.ts. TypeScript implements the ES 6 class-based object orientation plus more. It implements classes, interfaces, and inheritance so if you have experience with an object-oriented programming language such as C#, C++, or Java, using TypeScript may feel very natural to you. We will learn TypeScript in detail later in this tutorial.

Dart is another option. It is a non-JavaScript-based language for building Angular applications.
We've selected TypeScript as our Angular language.

Editor or IDE for Angular
Once we've picked a language, we select an editor or IDE that fully supports development in that language. Then we set up the development environment to get started with Angular. In these there are lots of editors and IDEs offer support for TypeScript and we can check the documentation of TypeScript Editor Support, but we only get the clever Intellisense as we type if we use a supported IDE. Initially, this was only Microsoft's Visual Studio.

• Visual Studio
• Visual Studio Code
• WebStorm
• Sublime Text
• Vim
• Atom
• Notepad++

Some of the support TypeScript out of the box and by including a plugin. Select any one of these supported Editors or whichever suits you best, but keep in mind that working with TypeScript will be much pleasant if you select an editor that understands TypeScript.
We are going to use either Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code throughout the tutorial. It support it much better than other IDEs or Editors because Visual Studio 2017 now has ability to debug the TypeScript code as like C# code.

Setting up Development Environment
Setting up development environment for Angular require to Install npm or Node Package Manager

Install npm or Node Package Manager
First thing you need is the latest version of the Node. Visit the Node.js website and download the latest version of the Node.


It is runtime environment for executing JavaScript code outside the browser. Node provides some tools to build Angular projects.

npm or Node Package Manager is a command line utility that interacts with a repository of open source projects. Now Node Package Manager has become the package manager for JavaScript. Using npm, we can install libraries, packages, and applications along with their dependencies.

We'll need npm to install all the libraries for Angular. Then we help us to execute scripts to compile our code and launch our Angular application.
After installing Node, we can verify it by running command “node –version” on command prompt that it has been install successfully or not.


With npm installed we are ready to set up our Angular application and create our first Angular application.

Conclusion
We have learnt how to setup the environment for Angular development. If we have installed tools required for development then we good go for creating our first Angular application.

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