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 ...

Untangle SQL Server connection strings Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools.

Learn how to install and configure SQL Server Management Studio, download a SQL Server, and connect them on a Windows 11/10/Server computer..

Query result Fixed an issue introduced in SQL Server Management Studio 18.3.1, where grids would be drawn slightly too narrow and show “…” at the end of the longest string in every column. SQL ...

Object explorer Fixed an issue where some menu items like SQL Server import and the export wizard were missing or disabled when connected to SQL express. See UserVoice for more details. Fixed an issue ...

Check if you can connect via SSMS and what connection properties you use there (windows auth or etc). Check in SQL Server Configuration Manager if your SQL Server instance is running.

I had this happen a while ago but enabling tcp/ip seemed to fix it but now I cannot connect again and I cant figure out why. Tcp seems to be enabled in configuration manager. Please am I doing ...

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.