A First Look at SSMS 20


Recently Microsoft released SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) v20.0, which is a major release of the primary tool that many of us use to work with SQL Server. Over the last few years, the tools team at Microsoft has worked to separate the tools from the various editions, giving us separate SSMS downloads. There have been separate releases in the v16, v17, v18, v29, and now v20 versions. I asked how often many of you update, and it seems some people update regularly, but I still run into people who are running the version that came with their SQL Server