How to connect a database in Atom Editor? - sql

Question

I want to connect my database in atom and execute directly from the editor. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Install a package "data-atom" Reference. You can do it in two ways :
1.Through command line (windows) :
apm install data-atom
make sure you have ssl false, if not then type
apm config set strict-ssl false
before "apm install"
2.Open atom and go to settings and click on "+Install" and look for "data-atom" package.
Once you downloaded, restart atom and do "alt+shift+r" to open database window. Fill in the configuration and you are good to go.
Hope this helps

Answer 2

Install data-atom as recommended already by Sdembla. But beware, the recommended commands in the documentation for these packages do not work, until you first use "Edit connections", to create a connections file for it to work with.
Interestingly this also applied to the "data-ace" Atom package.
The exact steps (assuming you've installed the data-atom package, and restarted Atom) are...
click Packages > Data Atom > Edit connections
replace the generic file contents ("[ ]") with a connection config, like that shown in guzman's question here:
[
{
name: "WindowsAuthentication"
protocol: "sqlserver"
user: "username"
password: "password"
server: "apphost/Username"
database: "master"
options: ""
}
{
name: "SQLServerAuthentication"
protocol: "sqlserver"
user: "userlogin"
password: "password"
server: "apphost/sqlexpress"
database: "master"
options: ""
}
]
the other commands (eg ctrl-shift-R) should now work 😎
it's important you Save this connections file, otherwise the commands will stop working again.