Easy-to-use graphical management tool for managing SQL Server

SQL Server Management Studio

SQL Server Management Studio 18.3

  -  534 MB  -  Freeware

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What's new in this version:

New item:
- Data Classification Add Data Classification information to column properties UI (Information Type, Information Type ID, Sensitivity Label, and Sensitivity Label ID are not exposed in the SSMS UI)
- Intellisense/Editor Updated support for features recently added to SQL Server 2019 (for example, "ALTER SERVER CONFIGURATION")
- SMO/Scripting Added support for Support scripting of Azure SQL DW unique constraint
- SMO/Scripting Data Classification
- Added support for SQL version 10 (SQL 2008) and higher
- Added new sensitivity attribute 'rank' for SQL version 15 (SQL 2019) and higher and Azure SQL DB
- SMO/Scripting SQL Assessment API - Added versioning to ruleset format
- SMO/Scripting SQL Assessment API - Added new checks
- SMO/Scripting SQL Assessment API - Added support for Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
- SMO/Scripting SQL Assessment API - Updated default view of cmdlets to display results as a table

Bug fixes:
- Analysis Services Fix scaling issue in MDX Query Editor
- Analysis Services Fixed an issue in XEvent UI that prevents the users from being able to create a new session
- Database Deployment to SQL Azure Fixed an issue (in DacFx) which was causing this feature not to work
- General SSMS Fixed an issue, which was causing SSMS to crash when using the sorting feature in the XEvent viewer
- General SSMS Fixed long outstanding issues where SSMS Restore database may hang indefinitely

See UserVoice items for more details:
- Restore Database - Select Backup Devices Slow to Load
- SSMS 2016 very slow in the database restore dialogs
- Restoring database is slow
- Restore Database from Device HANGS on clicking "..."
- General SSMS Fixed an issue where the default language for all logins was shown as Arabic
- See UserVoice item for more details: SSMS 18.2 default language display bug
- General SSMS Fixed the hard to see the dialog for Query Options (when the user right-clicks on the T-SQL editor window) by making it resizable
- General SSMS The Completion time message visible in the Result Grid/File (introduced in SSMS 18.2) is now configurable under Tools > Options > Query Execution > SQL Server > Advanced > Show completion time
- General SSMS In the connection dialog, replaced Active Directory - Password and Active Directory - Integrated with Azure Active Directory - Password and Azure Active Directory - Integrated, respectively
- General SSMS Fixed an issue that prevents users from being able to use SSMS to configure auditing on SQL Azure-Managed Instances when located in a TZ with negative UTC offset
- General SSMS Fixing an issue in XEvent UI where hovering over the grid was causing rows to be selected
- See UserVoice item for more details: SSMS Extended Events UI Selects Actions on Hover
- Import flat file Fixed the issue where Import Flat File was not importing all data by letting the user choose between a simple or rich data type detection
- See UserVoice item for more details: SSMS Import Flat File fails to import all data
- Integration Services Add new operation type StartNonCatalogExecution for SSIS Operation report
- SMO/Scripting Fixed an issue, which was causing SMO to throw errors when fetching properties when SMO.Server.SetDefaultInitFields(true) was being used
- Query Store UI Fixed an issue where the Y-axis did not scales when Execution Count Metric was selected in Tracked Query View
- Vulnerability Assessment Disabled clearing and approving baseline for Azure SQL DBs