But as my comments in presentations are also guidelines, directions, and pointers for the attendees who download the scripts later, I like the readability that the Text cells offer that you don’t always get by looking at green text that’s the same font and size as the rest of your code. I don’t want to get carried away with this so it will be a balance. It may take a while for my “formatting magic” to kick in for this. Naturally, I stopped what I was doing, updated my Azure Data Studio, and find this now exists: Excuse me – I have some SQL Notebook demos to go update…. And as I am putting this blog together, I see someone tweet about a markdown editor toolbar. I did some searching and found this site which has a great list of the markdowns for the text editor. Images and colors in the text? I have a feeling that this, just like using SELECT * in production, may prove to be a bad idea. Since I was able to use some HTML formatting, I now wonder if I can use other HTML code in the formatting: I used the asterisks and lines to visually create sections in other parts of the scripts. It’s a minor detail but I really liked the visualization. It’s using tags to create formatting! I recognize some of the tags from HTML but there are some non-HTML bits as well, like the use of asterisks to create the lines around the word SELECT in the header. But then you see the details behind the scenes for the text cells: With Notebooks, I came up with this instead:įor a visual person like me, it’s a much nicer way to do this. In my scripts before, you would see something like this: This means that I can write instructions and descriptions in text and not just in comment blocks. When I have seen Notebooks before, one of the things that I really liked was that there was a text component to the layout. I didn’t give myself a lot of time to get ready – just a couple of days. I decided this was the perfect opportunity to play around more with SQL Notebooks in Azure Data Studio (ADS). I was honored that they picked me to present my “Back to the Basics: T-SQL 101” session. This was a virtual event designed for those who are new to the Microsoft Data Platform. I had the honor of being part of the first Data Platform Discovery Day event, held over two days – one for US and one for Europe.
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