Grouping and the Central Management Servers Extension
Let's see how we can better organize our connections with groups and the central management servers extension.
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Grouping and color-coding your connections
Azure Data Studio allows you to organize your connections into groups that can optionally be color coded, both on the sidebar, and at the top of the tabbed SQL editor windows. You have complete flexibility with grouping your connections, which might be based on:
- Server Names
- Functional Names (e.g., Dev/Test/Prod)
- Physical Locations
- Roles (e.g., Admin/Execute/Read-Only)
You can also use any other grouping that facilitates your connection navigation.
As an example, the figure on the right demonstrates grouping and color-coding based on development environments.
To create your own groupings, you can use the same “Connections Details" form that we used in the last section (see the “Server group” field near the bottom of this form), or you can alternatively use the ...