The Ashdar Partners Blog

Ashdar Partners (that's me) has recently rebooted our web site. You can see it  here .  It fulfills all of our requirements, which are: Have a web presence, because it shows at least some minimum level of competence. Be as simple as possible, because simpler is better. Be served entirely out of GitHub, because GitHub seemed easier than Azure. That is all.

Recently, Microsoft announced that they will be sunsetting Azure Data Studio (ADS).  In other words, ADS is off to Software Valhalla, where it will join Query Analyzer and SQL Enterprise Manager. (And SQL Server for Itanium and SQL Server for Alpha and Multiplan and Professional Development System and QuickBasic and QuickC and many, many other things (Microsoft or not) that exist only as memories.) This announcement  was a bummer, but I was surprised at my lack of surprise. It was more of a "yeah, I guess that makes sense" rather than a "oh, wait-what?" or "I thought they were going to get rid of SSMS". Remember when Microsoft helpfully (?) installed ADS when you installed SSMS? I've been using SSMS since SQL Server 2005 When I started working with SQL Server, I used Query Analyzer because that is what was available. Which means that I used Query Analyzer for about six or seven years. How could it have been that long? No one remembers good old QA anymo...