You will also note that they add features at a high pace, so trying to list the missing features now isn't going to help you since the list will change again in a few weeks.
If you look at their release notes you will see that the team releases often (sometimes more than one release per month) and you will also see some releases fix regressions in previous releases (which means they broke stuff in one release they had to fix in the next one). SQL Server Operations Studio is still in prerelease status so it's likely to have a lot more bugs than Management Studio and it still lacks a lot of features SSMS has.
#LEARN SQL SERVER ON MAC HOW TO#
SQL Server operations studio will run natively on a Mac.īob Ward has a good step by step guide on how to set everything up: Take the SQL Server Mac challenge SQL Server Management Studio will not run on Mac natively, maybe you might have some success using Parallels Desktop. The tool allows you to connect to SQL Server instances on-premises (the cool kids say ‘on-prem’ ) and in the cloud. If you don't need things like Distributed Transaction Coordinator or some of the unsupported features you should be OK. Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio mostly referred to as SSMS is a tool used for configuring, managing, and administering data. However, a lot of features still aren't supported when not running on windows (even though Microsoft is working on adding some of them). The procedure for that installation can be found here You can install SQL Server on Mac using docker images.