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SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 19.1 and Recent Changes, Part 3

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Jun 19, 2023
This is the final post in a series covering changes in SSMS 19.  Please review Part 1 and Part 2 for details about Microsoft.Data.Sqlclient, MSAL, removal of the SQL Vulnerability Assessment, and mor...
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Hello jheim1215 and thank you for taking time to share your feedback. 

 

First, my recommendation if you find a bug in SSMS is to always, please, check to see if an issue already exists on the feedback/ideas site.  If it does, please add your comment and vote.  As I said, comments and votes help us understand how many users are affected and influence priority for issues and releases.  Traditionally we do release SSMS once a quarter (SSMS 19.0 in January, SSMS 19.1 in May), but we are prioritizing SSMS 20 for a variety of reasons.  That said, as I've stated previously, we reserve the right to release a 19.2 version.

 

For anyone who would like to see a 19.2 release, we need to know what issues in 19.1 have the most impact - please go find those issues in feedback/ideas and comment/upvote.

 

Second, can you help me understand what you mean by this statement "Also some nice plugins not built for 19 (I know you don't support if plugins installed)...and now v20....I can see why they give up."  I'm not sure if this is a question or just a comment...I'm also not clear who "they" refers to and what they are giving up on.  Any clarity is appreciated.

 

Lastly, I am being real.  I am not trying to push people off of SSMS to Azure Data Studio.  I realize you don't know me personally, but I have no interest in lying or misleading the SQL community.  Suggesting otherwise is completely unfair.  I'll restate here for clarity:

We have not deprecated SSMS.

We continue to invest in SSMS.

There is room for both SSMS and ADS in the SQL Data Tools space, and on any person’s machine. 

 

I'll go further and say: there exists functionality in SSMS that we currently don't plan on adding to Azure Data Studio.  While I know many folks would love one tool for everything, the investment required to port everything from SSMS over to ADS is significant and not something we are planning to do.  But we need a tool that is cross-platform for users (we support SQL Server on Linux, we need to have a tool for folks on Linux), and it is not possible to make SSMS run on Linux.  Therefore, we need to make ADS a more complete experience for users.

 

Please let me know if you have further questions.