Announcing the Release of SSMS 22 Preview 4

Microsoft

Oct 27, 2025

Happy Monday! The SSMS team is excited to announce the release of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) Preview 4. Building on feedback from our community and the momentum of previous previews, this release brings new features, important bug fixes, and further improvements to your SSMS experience.

What's new in SSMS 22 Preview 4

This release introduces several bug fixes reported via the SSMS Developer Community as well as a few feature enhancements. Learn more about SSMS 22 Preview 4, including how to download and install and what known issues exist, by visiting our documentation site. To update an existing installation of SSMS 22, launch the Visual Studio Installer and select Update or check for updates within SSMS by going to Help > Check for Updates.

Connection Dialog

Updates to the connection dialog include a new Reset button – allowing you to clear the fields in the Connection Properties section.

Quickly clear the Connection Properties field by selecting Reset.

Also included in this release: a fix for the feedback item New Query from Object Explorer Does Not Inherit App Name from Highlighted Database.

SQL Server 2025 Support

Additional support for SQL Server 2025 features was added in this release, including options to create Vector and JSON indexes. From Object Explorer, right-click Indexes > New Index > JSON index… or Vector Index… Also in Object Explorer, you can now view information for dimension and base type parameters for Vector data types.

A bunch of snippet files were added, including snippets for creating various index types, creating and altering external models for AI embeddings, and managing security and schema objects. View and manage available snippets by going to Tools > Code Snippets Manager… or insert snippets directly into your TSQL code by right-clicking in the query editor and selecting Insert Snippet…

Query Editor and Status Bar

SSMS 22 Preview 4 includes a few UI improvements, including a fix for a scrolling behavior issue with the query editor. Now, when the results grid has focus but the mouse pointer is hovered over the query editor you are able to scroll using the mouse wheel. We also resolved an issue that caused color contrast issues in the status bar when certain custom colors were selected from the Connection Dialog.

Scroll the Query Editor using the mouse wheel, even when the Results Window has focus.

Clear Entra ID Token Cache

We introduced a new Help menu item to resolve an authentication issue that can occur when you are recently added to an Entra ID group and try to connect to a server with the new access. SSMS caches the Entra ID token for an amount of time, but this refresh time limit can be bypassed by going to Help > Clear Entra ID Token Cache and re-connecting to your server to pick up the new Entra ID Token.