I’m getting a Macbook Pro!
YES! YES! YES!
Or as they say in the World Cup, GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!
My boss knows about my lust after the grooviness known as the Apple Macbook Pro, and he just scored me the coolest project. I get to be the pilot guy for supporting Macs internally. I’m way psyched.
Now for the wild part – figuring out how to do my work on it. I’m a SQL Server database administrator, and I already know the Microsoft SQL Management Studio doesn’t work on Macs, but I’ll be using Parallels Desktop to run that. Beyond that one application, though, I’d rather get everything running natively on Mac OSX wherever possible – after all, that’s the entire point of supporting Macs internally. If the user’s just running Windows apps, then there’s no support difference.
And besides, Mac-native stuff would just be cooler, muhahaha.
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Azure Data studio works for mac!
It’s been retired: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-data-studio/whats-happening-azure-data-studio?tabs=dev
Yeah it was a bummer, but I used it for how-to-think-like-sql-server-engine course and it worked like a charm. Sad to learn later that it was getting retired.
You’re lucky…
Are you running Microsoft SQL Management Studio in Coherence mode in Parallels, or just jumping into the VM environment? RoyalTSX is a great program to manage connecting to different VMs. Would like to hear what you’re using for that.
I concur.
I was recently introduced to Royal TSX.
I absolutely love the program.
It is absolutely brilliant.
I am currently running all my VMs on PROXMOX, and I have setup SSH, Remote Desktop Connections and Terminal connections to my VMs being hosted on the Proxmox box
I have a mac for work, and I run SSMS 22 through parrallels in coherence. Its feel almost like native software. Then docker containers to run SQL Server locally. Dont miss my old lenovo at all.
I use Microsoft’s free RDP client.
I have windows in work and Mac in personal use. I use Windows Apps as remote connection in Mac. Not cool but acceptable. For SQL client, I use VS code + SQL extension in Mac. So far so good.