Azure Data Studio

Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2019–2025), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Azure Data Studio, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 8 complaints

Clunky to use, with bloated menus and endless trees in most database IDEs2025-05-24
Database project editing and deployment is less complete and refined than the Windows Visual Studio version2021-06-26
Handles big SQL files poorly and feels slow with large result sets2021-04-12
Opting out of tracking requires manually editing a JSON config file and restarting2019-11-09
Opting out of tracking requires visiting a link, editing settings.json, and restarting2019-04-13
Install hangs on starting pgsql service; then 'Provider doesn't exist' error on any action2019-03-21
Can't set a non-default port from the command palette, forcing manual settings file edits2019-03-19
Data view doesn't work well with very long text fields2019-03-19