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Azure Data Studio Retirement

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carlosrobles
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Feb 06, 2025
We’re announcing the upcoming retirement of Azure Data Studio (ADS) on February 6, 2025, as we focus on delivering a modern, streamlined SQL development experience. ADS will remain supported until Fe...
Updated Feb 18, 2025
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m60freeman
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Mar 10, 2025

It looks like the SQL Server Profiler being used in ADS is really some kind of wrapper around Extended Events. Can that extension work from within VS Code or VS Studio?

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    dfusters
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    Jun 11, 2025

    I came here to find this exact question. It looks that the only way to execute a profiler in an Azure SQL database is using ADS, however that's not possible with the SQL Server extension for VSCode.