Configure SSMS Dark Mode Step By Step
You’re using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and would like to use Dark Mode. You’ve looked at the configuration options and don’t see a way to configure it.
2026-08-31
Management Studio (SSMS)
You Can’t Trust “Edit Query Text” in SSMS’s Execution Plans.
When there are IF branches or conditional logic, “Edit Query Text” only shows you the branches that actually executed. It’s easy to miss whole swaths of code that didn’t happen to execute one particular time.
2026-05-20
How to Draw Line Graphs in SSMS
Ever just need a quick visualization of some numbers to get a rough idea of the trend, like this
2026-04-15
Query Hint Recommendation Tool in SSMS 22
SQL Server Management Studio keeps adding features, but unless you look you probably don’t notice. In this article, we look at the new Query Hint Recommendation Tool in SSMS 2022 and how this can be used.
2026-03-18
What’s New in SSMS 22
SSMS 22 has several new features. Is there a compilation list of the new features? How will these features help me as a SQL Server professional?
2026-03-13
SSMS 22 Offline Installation
Beginning with SQL Server Management Studio 21, Microsoft stopped providing the direct download package/binaries to install SSMS, instead it just downloads the SSMS installer. This installer then starts the installation of SSMS and downloads what is needed to install SSMS. Sometimes there may be a need to do an offline installation where you do not have access to the internet. In this article, we walk through the steps to do an offline install of SSMS.
2026-02-27
2025-12-22
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Working with Indexes on SSMS
Overview In SQL Server, indexing is a technique used to improve the performance of queries by reducing the amount of data that SQL Server needs to scan. You can think of it like a table of contents in a book—it helps SQL Server find data more quickly. In this article, we will cover the following […]
2025-09-02 (first published: 2025-08-07)
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Helpful Management Studio Settings and Features
Learn a few tips and tricks to make your work with SSMS much more efficient and helpful.
2025-05-19
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2025-02-14 (first published: 2025-02-12)
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Negative and Positive Numbers
If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?
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