In November, Microsoft released version 18.4 for the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), introducing some key features such as support for materialized view scripts in SQL Data Warehouse.

We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 18, which can be used to manage any SQL infrastructure, has been released and is now ...

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is the principal interface for working with Microsoft SQL Server. However, many subtleties of this powerful tool evade even the most seasoned professionals.

2 is that same query as executed in SSMS (yes, I finally did get it to install). Figure 2. The same query as executed in SQL Server Management Studio. (Click image to view larger version.) Obviously, ...

Microsoft has updated its SQL Server Management Studio to version 17.3 ... properly import complex flat file structures," Microsoft said in a blog post. [Click on image for larger view.] The Import ...

Figure 1. Setting up a Utility Control Point in SQL Server Management Studio. (Click image to view larger version.) You can then click on the "Create a Utility Control Point (UCP)" link ...

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 ...