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Today we released SSMS 21.3.6, bringing several bug fixes and introducing a new feature that has been a long-standing customer request: rename tabs! Update to the latest version of SSMS by going to Help > Check for Updates or open the Visual Studio Installer to download and install the update. If you don’t have SSMS 21 yet, you can learn more about downloading and installing it here. As always, please refer to our release notes to see the full list of new features, bug fixes, and known issues.

Renaming unsaved tabs

Have you ever had 10, 20, 30+ tabs open in SSMS and find yourself jumping between them trying to find which SQLQuery#.sql you need to reference? Don’t need to save the file, but wish you had a way to rename the tab so you know what’s in it? Hopefully we just made the task of tab hopping a little easier: today we are excited to introduce the ability to rename unsaved tabs in SSMS 21.3.6. Simply right-click a tab, select Rename and enter a new name. If you decide you want to save the tab, the save name will default to what you renamed the tab to.

Bug fixes in 21.3.6

We’ve continued to focus on fixing issues reported by the community on the Developer Community site. I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again, thank you for the feedback and thank you for being such an enthusiastic product community. Your feedback really makes a difference and shapes the future of SSMS!

• Connection dialog: fixed several issues in the Modern connection dialog (Preview) including:
  
  
  
  • New connection dialog is leaking connections
  
  
  • New connection dialog – cancel should not close but allow changing to a different connection
  
  
  • Importing earlier version of SSMS from SSMS 21
  
  
  
  

• Copilot in SSMS (Preview): addressed an issue that erroneously caused an Azure OpenAI jailbreak response, causing the Copilot to try less effective alternatives to assess the database schema and return a valid query


• Files: Fixed a bug that caused multiple instances of SSMS to open when opening `.sql` files.


• Git: fixed several issues in the Git diff tool including:
  
  
  
  • Git Changes, diff coloring
  
  
  • Diff tool does not allow copy of code selection unlike Visual Studio
  
  
  
  

• Object Explorer: fixed several issues in Object Explorer including:
  
  
  
  • Performance regression: object explorer takes ~60s to expand table nodes in large databases
  
  
  • Object explorer is showing wrong database name