As a heavy user of other RDBMS data platforms, I have long appreciated the extra effort that Microsoft put into their data management and administration tool, the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).

Microsoft's SQL Server toolbox is a morass of acronyms, from SMO to SSMS to SOS, and differentiating one from the other can be a challenge. I recently caught up with Vicky Harp, lead program manager ...

While SSMS must be version 2016 or 2017, the SQL Server engine that produced the dump can be SQL Server 2008 or newer. When invoked, the SQL Server Diagnostics pop-up dialog asks for you to provide ...

Microsoft has announced the release of SQL Server Management Studio Preview 3, which brings many features, including "initial" support for ARM64. SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is the tool of ...

DBAs will have to start thinking in terms of groups instead of single servers. SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) also has much better object-level stats than ever before. This is a perfectly ...

Devart releases dbForge Tools SQL Server 7.1, featuring extended compatibility with SQL Server 2025, SSMS 21 Preview, and Windows Server 2025. PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC ...

DBAs will have to start thinking in terms of groups instead of single servers. SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) also has much better object-level stats than ever before. This is a perfectly ...

SQL Server 2005 also promises better performance. I didn’t run performance benchmarks for this review, but in addition to allowing DBAs to partition the database to balance load, Microsoft has done a ...

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