Microsoft has released SQL Server Management Studio 22.9.0, delivering another round of updates to its primary graphical tool for administering SQL Server and related Azure database services. Updates ...

SQL Server Management Studio should be launched after connecting to a SQL Server instance. As soon as you run SSMS for the first time, the Connect to Server window appears. Object Explorer > Connect > ...

I'm down on SQL Server Management Studio right now. I basically just spent a day trying to swap out the evaluation version of SQL Server 2008 R2 with the Express version, and SSMS just wouldn't ...

Double-click on SQL Server 2017 SSEI Developer.exe after opening the .exe file. 2. Select the version that you would like. The third step is to accept the terms. The fourth step is to choose the ...

Late in 2017, I informed you about a public preview for a new data management tool from Microsoft called SQL Operations Studio. SQL Operations Studio is a very flexible and lightweight data management ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

As a heavy user of other RDBMS data platforms, I have long appreciated the extra effort that Microsoft put into their data management and administration tool, the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).

Microsoft's SQL Server toolbox is a morass of acronyms, from SMO to SSMS to SOS, and differentiating one from the other can be a challenge. I recently caught up with Vicky Harp, lead program manager ...