SQL Server Management Studio

4 engineers on Hacker News describe using SQL Server Management Studio first-hand: 0 endorse it, 2 regret it, 0 are mixed.

27%trust

4first-hand users

4in production

endorse 0mixed 0regret 2uses, no opinion

“fighting T-SQL debugger HRESULT crashes in SSMS whilst trying to reverse engineer a huge shitty black box SQL sproc”

regret · production · hp50g · 2013-04-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“The practice also hurts what little support SMSS has for quick searching the db object list”

regret · production · jasonkostempski · 2012-10-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“the project I was leading integrated with SQL Server Managment Studio, which forced us to use .NET 2.0.”

neutral · production · bartread · 2025-10-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We replaced SSMS + SQL Server with Python + SQLite run in AWS Lambda.”

neutral · production · thesketh · 2022-04-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?