I'm shocked!
SHOCKED, I say!
A Microsoft update changed my existing settings. I prefer the 'Classic Connection Dialog' because...it's what I've used for eleventy billion years. But, no! MS has to fuck up the end user experience for everyone.
Sigh.
Every time I update a Microsoft tool I depend on (for work), I'm filled with dread wondering what gratuitous horse crap they're going to foist on me.
More Copilot?
Banner Ads for MS services?
Changes to keyboard shortcuts?
New UI where everything is moved around and difficult to find?
It never ends...
I wonder in which version of SQL Server Management Studio #SSMS or #SQL it will be before #Microsoft finally fix the most irritating bug...
"Description: Failed to compiled scripts contained in the package."
Failed to compileD??? Grr!
@awilbert
When I first heard about AI/Copilot inclusion with SSMS, I voiced my displeasure on LinkedIn. It was not well received.
But seeing that ad in SSMS made me feel vindicated with regards to my criticism of MS. They have become so terrible. đ
Microsoft tried to stuff an ad bar into #SSMS, then pushed an update saying you can simply disable it if you don't like it... by editing the registry.
I saw some comments in another posting about this where people were saying "SSMS is free, and Microsoft needs to make money somehow." *facepalm*
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Please-dont-show-ads-in-SSMS/11010321
Headline: New Year's Resolution for DBAs: Make Peace with Copilot
Me: This article is quite a bit different than what the title led me to believe. Really good stuff here.
https://www.sqlfingers.com/2025/12/new-years-resolution-for-dbas-make.html
Do you write a lot of paper checks? (I don't--typically it's just one per month.) If so, do you screw up the year when writing in the date for the first few weeks/months of the new year?
This is my TSQL version of that. I'm off to a good start. đ
Dave Mason
Alberto Morillo
robrich
Matt
Adam Wilbert