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Announcing the Release of SQL Server Management Studio 22 Preview 5

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erinstellato
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Nov 06, 2025
Hi all – this week we released SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22 Preview 5!  It’s a smaller preview with a set of fixes for GitHub Copilot, you can view the list in the release notes.  For those...
Published Nov 06, 2025
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HiteshDavey
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Nov 07, 2025

Happy to see MS is investing in reviving every corner of SSMS. Hope to see many new productive features in the future updates.

One thing you overlooked or missed out to enhance is result grid. Result grid need your attention in the following area...

  1. Show result aggregates in status bar for entire/selected cols or rows for SUM, COUNT, MIN, MAX, AVG, NULL COUNT, NOT NULL COUNT
  2. Option to FIND value in result grid.
  3. Alternative grid row/col color
  4. Option to independently zoom in/out result grid
  5. Option to sort data by clicking col header
  6. Excel like option to freeze result row/col Pane
  7. Outlook like option to group/ungroup the result by drag/drop col header.
  8. Auto format numeric value cols to display thousand separator's 
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    erinstellato
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    Nov 07, 2025

    HiteshDavey​ I recommend you visit the feedback site (https://aka.ms/ssms-feedback), search to see if those requests already exist (many of them do) and upvote them.  For any suggestions that do not exist, please feel free to create a new ticket.  Please do not create one feedback item with multiple requests.  The option to zoom in and out on the results grid is available in SSMS 22 preview. Thanks.