09Jun 2025 by Grant Fritchey No Comments

SSMS 21 Fixes Irritating Problem

SQL Server
I have a proper blog post coming out tomorrow for T-SQL Tuesday, but today, celebrate with me that SSMS 21 finally, at long last, fixes the irritating fact that the New Session window in SSMS for Extended Events always opened to the wrong size. Here's SSMS 20: At the bottom of the screen on the right, there's actually more to be seen. Now, every version of SSMS from 2012 to version 20 has hidden the Causality Tracking. If you resize the window (I was in the habit of maximizing it as soon as I opened it), you can see Causality Tracking. Here's SSMS 21: There it is! Causality Tracking! WHOOOP!! There's been a whole bunch of other, little, fixes all over SSMS 21, but this one, I'm excited about. Now,…
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12May 2025 by Grant Fritchey 2 Comments

SSMS 21

SQL Server
Just a quick one this morning. I'm on the road and haven't worked up a full blog post, apologies. I've been using the preview for SQL Server Management Studio 21 for a little over a week now. You should check it out. It's been mostly stable (I got a crash. I didn't report it because I couldn't replicate it). I think the most interesting thing has been how much it's largely the same. It's in a new home within Visual Studio. However, the majority of the behaviors I've hit so far have been normal. Heck, Redgate SQL Prompt is working for me and my team told me we don't support SSMS 21 yet. I've spent most of my time in Extended Events and the Live Data Window. So much of…
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