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Install Azure Data CLI (azdata) on macOS

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For the macOS platform, you can install the azdata-cli with Homebrew package manager. The CLI package has been tested on macOS versions:

  • 10.13 High Sierra
  • 10.14 Mojave
  • 10.15 Catalina

Install with Homebrew

brew tap microsoft/azdata-cli-release
brew update
brew install azdata-cli

Important

The azdata-cli has a dependency on the Homebrew python3, freetds, unixodbc, zeromq packages, and will install them. The azdata-cli is guaranteed to be compatible with the latest version of these dependencies published on Homebrew.

Verify install

azdata
azdata --version

Update

Update your local repository information and then upgrade the azdata-cli package.

brew tap microsoft/azdata-cli-release
brew update
brew upgrade azdata-cli

Uninstall

Use Homebrew to uninstall the azdata-cli package.

brew uninstall azdata-cli

Next steps

For more information about big data clusters, see What are SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters?.