"An object explorer allows developers to easily make connections to their SQL servers and databases and explore the hierarchy of the SQL Server instance," Yu explained. "Users can also easily launch ...

Benefits of Object Explorer Object Explorer provides a hierarchical user interface to view and manage the objects in each instance of SQL Server. The Object Explorer Details pane presents a tabular ...

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is part of a suite of SQL tools that Microsoft offers free of charge for your development and management needs. SSMS is an integrated environment to access, ...

Two caveats: First, even if you’re working with SQL Server 2016, your database’s compatibility level must be set to 130 or higher to use these features. You can view your database’s compatibility ...

Installing the Power Tools resulted in a new "Projects" node in SSDT's new SQL Server Object Explorer, or SSOX, (with SSMS-like functionality), where you can see the schema of your database and add, ...

Click "Tools," then "Options," then SQL Server Object Explorer" in Management Studio to open the object explorer. Right-click the "Databases" folder in Object Explorer, and click "Synchronize ...

Figure 1. Get started by running SQL's version of PowerShell. Let's start off with looking at the SQL Server services running on a given machine. Use the Get-Service cmdlet to find out about services ...