Do I need to install MySQL for Visual Studio?

No. You can use MySQL without Visual Studio because the two are independent of each other . MySQL is an open-source database and Visual Studio is a Microsoft collection of developer tools.

MySQL for Visual Studio provides access to MySQL objects and data from Visual Studio . As a Visual Studio package, MySQL for Visual Studio integrates directly into Server Explorer providing the ability to create new connections and work with MySQL database objects.

Visual Studio Code is a graphical code editor for Linux, macOS, and Windows. It supports extensions, including the mssql extension for querying a SQL Server instance, Azure SQL Database, an Azure SQL Managed Instance, and a database in Azure Synapse Analytics .15 Mar 2022