How to Install Azure Data Studio on Ubuntu 20.04

Azure Data Studio is a neat little graphical tool for managing databases.

It’s available on Windows, MacOS, and Linux. On Linux it’s available on Red Hat (RHEL), SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and Ubuntu.

This tutorial shows you how to install Azure Data Studio on Ubuntu 20.04 via the GUI. Screenshots included.

I’ve also included the commands for installation via the command-line in case you prefer that method.

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Change the Priority of an Account within a Database Mail Profile (SSMS)

Here, I demonstrate how to change the priority of a Database Mail account within a profile in SQL Server using the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) graphical user interface.

If you want to see how to do it using T-SQL, see Change the Sequence Number of an Account in Database Mail (T-SQL).

The priority and the sequence number are the same thing (when you change it with T-SQL you use the @sequence_number parameter).

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How to Install SQL Server

SQL Server used to be available on Windows machines only. If you didn’t have Windows, you didn’t install SQL Server.

Now, SQL Server is available on Windows, Linux, and even Mac (via Docker containers).

This obviously means that an article titled “how to install SQL Server” is not as simple as it used to be!

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