Welcome to release 20.2.1 of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)! Full documentation for this release and for previous releases can be found here: SSMS documentation.

To connect to these data sources, you must do the following: Install the appropriate ODBC driver on the computer that contains the data source.

Fixes a vulnerability that lets users who have access to certain stored procedures perform SQL injection and run arbitrary code by using elevated privileges. The English version of this package has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table.

Consider installing the latest version of the SQL Server OLE DB and ODBC drivers instead of using the native SQL Server drivers that ship with Windows. Not only are the newer drivers faster, but they support new features in Azure SQL that the previous drivers don't.

After you have extracted the PSSDIAG files from the package on the Microsoft Download Center, run Pssdiag.exe to start the data collection. When PSSDIAG starts, it first opens, and then configures the log files it has been configured to capture. This process may take several seconds.

Describes the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 18.8 release.

Fixes an issue in which you experience the performance issues because of high CPU usage in SQL Server 2016 and 2017.

Assume that you use the SqlLocalDB feature in Microsoft SQL Server 2019 or 2017. In this situation, you can't start correctly or connect to a shared instance of SqlLocalDB.

Select the tables that you want to upsize, and then use the arrow buttons to move them to the Export to SQL Server list. Alternatively, you can double-click a table to move it from one list to the other.

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