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 ...

The latest version has reached general availability a few months after the release of v18.4. It brings a bunch of new features and general bug fixes, along with more specific improvements. In November ...

In announcing SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 21 Preview 1 this week, Microsoft revealed Copilot AI for the tool is also being previewed, privately. A Copilot for the tool that helps users manage, ...

There are some nifty, better-than-SSMS tools that cost nothing to use. One of them is already in your toolbox and you might not know it. I'm down on SQL Server Management Studio right now. I basically ...

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).

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 ...

Sometimes you become the accidental DBA, or you are the DBA by choice. Either way, you can choose to spend time working in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to look at things such as backups or the ...

SQL Server is primarily built around a row-based table structure that connects related data elements in different tables to one another, avoiding the need to redundantly store data in multiple places ...

Docker containers are great for SQL Server development and test scenarios, as they allow database administrators and developers to deploy SQL Server instances within seconds. Users are able to spin up ...

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 ...