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Last week, at the Pass Data Summit, they announce the new version of SQL Server Management Studio: SSMS 21

You can find the preview in here.

It’s a good opportunity to test this new version before installing it by customers…

After downloading the file vs_SSMS.exe (4,3 MB), start the file to doanload and install it.

For the installation, you have 2 possibilities: “Install while downloading” (the default) or “Download all, then install”.

I chose the last one to install SSMS on a VM for testing…

During the download, you have a link to the release note and see the news features available in this version:

You have also the possibility to install a Visual Studio 2022 Preview.

This version of SQL Server Management Studio is now based on Visual Studio 2022 and supports 64-bit to avoid out-of-memory errors…

Now, start SSMS 21:

The first choice you need to make is the authentication:

Or the best option at the begin: “skip for now”

After clicking on “skip for now”, SSMS is running:

I tested first a funny part:

Before this version, the background of SSMS was limited to 3 options:

Now, you have more choice:

I chose the Dark Theme to continue my test…

One of the new options is the Database Scoped Configuration included in the database Properties:

I’m already happy to test this new version of SQL Server Management Studio and will continue to test it…

See you in the next blog post!

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New SQL Server Management Studio Version 21 – First Test