Fill out the Connect to Server form and click Connect: If you're connecting to an Azure SQL Server, you might get prompted to sign in to create a firewall rule.

The XMLA command templates that are provided in Template Explorer can be used to create scripts for monitoring and updating [!INCLUDE ssASnoversion] objects, regardless of whether the instance is in ...

The mssql extension for Visual Studio Code, used to support SQL Server connections and T-SQL editing, has been updated with IntelliCode functionality and a new Object Explorer, among other new ...

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.

The solution is to use an XMLA script to make the change. The easy way to do this is to open up the server properties dialog in SQL Management Studio by right clicking on your instance name in the ...

Object Reference Not Set to an Instance of an Object on Windows Interestingly, this issue isn’t exclusive to Microsoft Visual Studio and may appear in other applications relying on Visual Studio ...

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 ...

Policy-based management is accessed in SQL Server Management Studio under “Management” in the object explorer as “Policy Management”. Getting started with policy-based management can be accelerated by ...