Tag: ops-studio

VSCode Extensions in SQL Ops Studio

The list of extensions for SQL Ops Studio is still pretty small. But since it’s a fork of VSCode, it’s possible that any given VSCode extension just might work fine in Ops Studio. If that’s the case, here’s what you can do.

  1. Go to the VSCode Marketplace and find the extension you want. In my case, I’m adding the tsqllint extension that I mentioned in a previous post.
  2. Under the Resources heading on the extension’s Marketplace page, you’ll see a link to “Download Extension”. This is a .vsix file that you’ll want to save to your local system.
  3. In Ops Studio, under the File menu, click “Install Extension from VSIX Package”. Pick the file you downloaded. Once it’s installed, Ops Studio will prompt you to Reload for the new extension to take effect.

And that’s all there is to it! Once again, I’m indebted to ck (twitter|blog) for finding this.

If you try this with an extension and run into a problem, I’d like to hear what it was. I’m curious about which extensions don’t carry over well, and why they have a problem.

Running PowerShell files in SQL Operations Studio

As I’ve used SQL Operations Studio more and more, I’ve also been finally using PowerShell in more situations. Given that I like the editor and that there’s a built-in terminal, I’ve been running those in my Ops Studio instance. But for a while I didn’t have a slick way of running an entire PowerShell file in the terminal. Usually, I’d just Ctrl+A/Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V, which is a bit awkward.

But among all the other ways you can customize Ops Studio, you have a lot of control over the key mappings. One way to edit these mappings is to pull up the Command Pallette (Ctrl+Shift+P) and start typing “key”, and you’ll see “Preferences: Open Keyboard Shortcuts”. You’ll also see it mentions the Ctrl+K/Ctrl+S shortcut. This will bring you to the basic Keyboard Shortcuts window, where you’ll need to click “keybindings.json”. Either way, just like Ops Studio’s overall settings (and VSCode’s, for that matter), you get a JSON file you can now tweak. Actually, two of them, with the defaults on the left and your own settings on the right.

Here’s the mapping I’ve added:


{
"key": "shift+f5",
"command": "workbench.action.terminal.runActiveFile",
"when": "editorTextFocus && editorLangId == powershell"
}

The effect of this is that pressing Shift+F5 while focus is on your PowerShell script file will cause Ops Studio to run that file in the terminal window. As an old SSMS and Visual Studio user, F5 seemed natural to me, and I noticed that Shift+F5 wasn’t already taken.

Note that this runs the file, not necessarily what you have in the window. So you may want to precede this with Ctrl+S while you’re working.

My gratitude to ck (twitter|blog) for pointing me in the right direction here. When it comes to either Ops Studio or PowerShell these days, I just assume he’s smarter than me.