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 ...

We are excited to announce the release of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 17.3! Download SSMS 17.3 and review ... helping the wizard “learn” the structure of a flat file to infer column names, ...

Another compression feature, called Sparse Columns, allows you to store nulls ... in terms of groups instead of single servers. SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) also has much better object ...