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.

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.

If you are a developer experiencing “Connect to Server” errors using SQL Server Management Studio on your local machine or development box, consult the checklist below to quickly find, and fix ...

Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 18, which can be used to manage any SQL infrastructure, has been released and is now generally available to users with a long list of updates and improvements.

How Do I Get Sql Server Business Intelligence Development Studio? Business Intelligence Development Studio should now be open. Choose Business Intelligence Project from the list of projects… Click on ...

Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools. To provide an example using real source, I created a simple Winforms ...

Microsoft has updated its SQL Server Management Studio to version 17.3, adding two features along with various minor enhancements and bug fixes. SSMS 17.3, made available for download earlier this ...

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 ...

Launch Microsoft SQL Server 2008, SQL Server Management Studio, by clicking on the Start button. You can select the SQL Server name by expanding the drop-down menu for ‘SQL Server’ on the Connect to ...

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 ...