SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) may collect standard computer, use, and performance information that may be transmitted to Microsoft and analyzed to improve the quality, security, and reliability ...

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.

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. It also ...

> If you want to learn how to use Transact-SQL (T-SQL) F1 Help, please view the [Transact-SQL F1 Help](#transact-sql-f1-help) section. > If you want to learn about tasks that you can do with the ...

This SQL Server Management Studio 18 RC1 build has some important updates as seen below: SSMS improvements: Enabling XMLA endpoint connectivity to Power BI datasets: XMLA endpoints provide access to ...

After a brief gap since releasing SQL Server Public Preview 6, and having survived through the February 2019 Snowcalypse in Seattle, I’m happy to share that everyone in the SQL Tools team has made it ...

Figure 1. A SQL Server query against the Northwind database executed in PowerShell. (Click image to view larger version.) Fig. 2 is that same query as executed in SSMS (yes, I finally did get it to ...

“When I joined the SQL Tools team as a PM [program manager] back in October 2018, my top priority was to release SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 18,” he wrote.