The tool's Always Encrypted functionality was also improved, as described in another post published by Microsoft yesterday titled " Always Encrypted Assessment in SQL Server Management Studio 21." ...

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.

Connect to your SQL Server instance, then in the object explorer pane drill down and highlight a container, such as Tables. Then click View => Object Explorer Details from the top menu bar.

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 ...