PySpark development is now fully supported in Visual Studio Code. Through an extension built for the aforementioned purpose, users can run Spark jobs with SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters.

Azure Data Studio Notebooks also received updates, including: The ability to create or open Notebooks using an integrated Notebook viewer, which in the new release supports connecting to local kernels ...

Microsoft introduced a preview of the latest edition of its flagship RDBMS, SQL Server 2019, highlighting new Big Data capabilities integrated into the core database engine.