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SSMS 22 - Not seeing the Database name information in the Status Bar and Title bar is gone.
I installed SSMS 22 yesterday and am trying to get used to the features.
I am not a fan of the new layout.
I might be in the future, but at the moment, not so much.
Status Bar settings are all set to [True]
But nothing is showing in the Status Bar.
There is no Title Bar anymore. WHY Would they take away the Title Bar? That is insane.
So, my question to the Forum is this.
How do we get the Database Name information in the Status Bar?
As stated, everything is set to TRUE in settings.
Also, will the Status Bar show the title of the Editor file you are working on?
(I miss the old design, to be honest. )
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If my new setup (Management Studio 22.10.1) is the same as yours, then the "title bar" is missing because the "Compact menu bar" option is turned on. You can turn it off, and get the title bar back.
Start from the top menu: Tools > Options > All Settings > Environment > Visual Experience
Among the options is: (Tick mark) "Use compact menu bar - Combines the title and menu bars to increase vertical space. You must restart the application for this setting change to take effect."
Click on the tick mark to remove it, then terminate the Management Studio app (close it, keys Alt+F4), and when you start it again, you should have your title bar.
I thought it must be there somewhere... when I searched, there's a third-party add-on, "DevArt dbForge SQL Complete", whose features include making the Management Studio title bar more interesting. For $149.95 Standard price, I expect it does more than that - and I haven't decided to buy yet - but I'd also expect them to notice when Management Studio doesn't HAVE a title bar any more. And in case they drop by on this thread, they're welcome by me to update their own online documentation to say where Microsoft have PUT IT. Unless that is a Microsoft trade secret, of course. As far as I remember, I just poked around the Management Studio screen and found it (after looking via Bing, at DevArt's web site - and also here), so if it's secret, it isn't very.
The database name and other information should be displayed in the status bar of SQL scripts.
Never mind on this one.
The Status Bar for the Editor is on the bottom, OR you can set it to the top.
The IDE Status Bar does not show anything; I don't know why I thought that it did.
I still miss the Title Bar.
