Quickstart: Use Azure Data Studio to connect and query data using a dedicated SQL pool in Azure Synapse Analytics

This quickstart shows connecting to a dedicated SQL pool in Azure Synapse Analytics using Azure Data Studio.

Prerequisites

To complete this quickstart, you need Azure Data Studio, and a dedicated SQL pool in Azure Synapse Analytics.

• Install Azure Data Studio.

If you don't already have a dedicated SQL pool in Azure Synapse Analytics workspace, see Quickstart: Create a dedicated SQL pool using Synapse Studio. For a standalone dedicated SQL pool (formerly SQL DW) outside of an Azure Synapse workspace, see Create a dedicated SQL pool. Remember the server name, and login credentials! For more information on the differences, see What's the difference between Azure Synapse dedicated SQL pools (formerly SQL DW) and dedicated SQL pools in an Azure Synapse Analytics workspace?.

Connect to your dedicated SQL pool

Use Azure Data Studio to establish a connection to your Azure Synapse Analytics server.

1. The first time you run Azure Data Studio the Connection page should open. If you don't see the Connection page, select Add Connection, or the New Connection icon in the SERVERS sidebar:

   

2. This article uses SQL Login, but Windows Authentication is also supported. Fill in the fields as follows using the server name, user name, and password for your Azure SQL server:

   Setting	Suggested value	Description
   Server name	The fully qualified server name	For example the name should look like to this: myworkpsace.sql.azuresynapse.net for a dedicated SQL endpoint in an Azure Synapse Analytics workspace (recommended), or for a standalone dedicated SQL pool (formerly SQL DW) outside of an Azure Synapse Analytics workspace, use the Azure SQL logical server: sqlpoolservername.database.windows.net.
   Authentication	SQL Login	SQL Authentication is used in this tutorial.
   User name	The server admin account	This is the account that you specified when you created the server.
   Password (SQL Login)	The password for your server admin account	This is the password that you specified when you created the server.
   Save Password?	Yes or No	Select Yes if you don't want to enter the password each time.
   Database name	leave blank
   Server Group	leave blank

3. If your server doesn't have a firewall rule allowing Azure Data Studio to connect, the Create new firewall rule form opens. Complete the form to create a new firewall rule. For details, see Firewall rules.

4. After successfully connecting your server opens in the Servers sidebar.

Create a database

You can use an existing dedicated SQL pool for this exercise, including the one created by default, or you can create a new pool.

For dedicated SQL pools in Azure Synapse, navigate to the Azure Synapse Analytics workspace.

1. Select Manage.
2. In the Analytics pools section, select SQL pools.
3. Select + New to create a new dedicated SQL pool.
4. Give the dedicated SQL pool a new name TutorialDB and pick a performance level. Set to the smallest size to reduce costs for this quickstart.
5. Select Create.

For standalone dedicated SQL pools (formerly SQL DW), navigate to the Dedicated SQL pool (formerly SQL DW) in the Azure portal.

1. Select the link for Server name, such as contosowdw.database.windows.net, to go to the Azure portal page for the logical SQL server.
2. Select + Create dedicated SQL pool (formerly SQL DW) to create another dedicated SQL pool in the logical SQL server.
3. Give the dedicated SQL pool a new name TutorialDB and pick a performance level. Set to the smallest size to reduce costs for this quickstart.
4. Select Review + Create.

Create a table

The query editor is still connected to the master database, but we want to create a table in the TutorialDB database.

1. Change the connection context to TutorialDB:

2. Paste the following snippet into the query editor and select Run:

   Note

   You can append this to, or overwrite the previous query in the editor. Note that selecting Run executes only the query that is selected. If nothing is selected, selecting Run executes all queries in the editor.

   -- Create a new table called 'Customers' in schema 'dbo'
   -- Drop the table if it already exists
   IF OBJECT_ID('dbo.Customers', 'U') IS NOT NULL
   DROP TABLE dbo.Customers
   GO
   -- Create the table in the specified schema
   CREATE TABLE dbo.Customers
   (
      CustomerId        INT     NOT NULL,
      Name      [NVARCHAR](50)  NOT NULL,
      Location  [NVARCHAR](50)  NOT NULL,
      Email     [NVARCHAR](50)  NOT NULL
   );
   GO
   

   

Insert rows

1. Paste the following snippet into the query editor and select Run:

   -- Insert rows into table 'Customers'
   INSERT INTO dbo.Customers
      ([CustomerId],[Name],[Location],[Email])
      SELECT 1, N'Orlando',N'Australia', N'' UNION ALL
      SELECT 2, N'Keith', N'India', N'[email protected]' UNION ALL
      SELECT 3, N'Donna', N'Germany', N'[email protected]' UNION ALL
      SELECT 4, N'Janet', N'United States', N'[email protected]'
   

   

View the result

1. Paste the following snippet into the query editor and select Run:

   -- Select rows from table 'Customers'
   SELECT * FROM dbo.Customers;
   

2. The results of the query are displayed:

   

Clean up resources

If you don't plan to continue working with the sample databases created in this article, then delete the resource group.

Next steps

For more information, visit Connecting to Synapse SQL with Azure Data Studio.

Now that you've successfully connected to an Azure Synapse Analytics and ran a query, try out the Code editor tutorial.