Users of SQL Server Management Studio can monitor all their connections via a heatmap, alarms list and realtime diagnostics for FREE. Once installed and configured, users can monitor their connections ...

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) contains Internet-enabled features that can collect and send anonymous feature usage and diagnostic data to Microsoft. SSMS may collect standard computer ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...