SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 19.1 and Recent Changes, Part 1


Toward the end of May the SQL Tools team released SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 19.1, which had many bug fixes as well as new functionality and a couple noteworthy changes.  In addition, as users have been upgrading to SSMS 19.x, we’ve heard reports of confusion and misunderstanding related to selected settings.  In this series of posts we’ll clarify the impact of changes between 18.12.1 and 19.x, as well as discuss what’s new in 19.1. 

 

Dependency Changes

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), like many other applications, has dependencies on client libraries and drivers. For SSMS, there are three, of