SqlToolsService Known Issues

If you've experienced a SQL Tools Service crash

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Known Issues

• The mssql extension process may crash due to a bug in the product. It requires to restart VS Code to recover. Before restarting VS Code, please save your files.

• Installation Prerequisites: this extension requires the user to install some components needed by .Net Core applications, since this is used for connectivity to SQL Server.

  • For Mac OS, see OpenSSL requirement on macOS

  • For Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 or lower, see Windows 10 Universal C Runtime requirement

• Process is terminated due to StackOverflowException.

  • There is a bug in the SQL Parser which can be triggered by certain T-SQL syntax. Please disable diagnostics if you hit this issue using the following user setting "mssql.intelliSense.enableErrorChecking": false.
  • Tracking this with issue https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-mssql/issues/340

• Connection profiles are not loaded from user settings for Visual Studio Code - Insiders

  • Workaround: store connection profiles in the user settings file used by the Stable build of Visual Studio Code (documented here)
  • Tracking this with issue https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-mssql/issues/340