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Installed update to 7.7.18.19115. Opened SSMS. Connected to DB. Closed SSMS and waited about five minutes with no restart of SSMS. Happy Day. Will update if issue persists. / comments
Installed update to 7.7.18.19115.Opened SSMS. Connected to DB. Closed SSMS and waited about five minutes with no restart of SSMS. Happy Day. Will update if issue persists.
Add another one to the list here. Sean B's work around of closing connections before closing program seems to work. SeanB said:
I have been having this problem too for a few months. Today I upgraded from SSMS 19.3 to SSMS 20.1 (Windows 11 box). Although SSMS is supposed to import options and customisations, it definitely doesn't do them all - including toolbars. I like my toolbars to have my most used tools and not filled with stuff I don't want. So I modified the toolbars to the way I wanted, then exited out of SSMS. Unfortunately, SSMS automatically restarted (again) and the toolbars had all reverted (or, more specifically, nothing had been saved). After various fumbling about, I found a workaround how to stop this happening: Disconnect from all servers before exiting SSMS.
The object explorer should be empty. This will stop SSMS restarting, and also allow you to save changes to toolbars (and perhaps other things). (Note that it seems to be OK if you didn't actually open any databases, but if you have opened a database, then disconnecting from the server, before exiting SSMS, allows you to exit without restarting).
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Add another one to the list here. Sean B's work around of closing connections before closing program seems to work. SeanB said:
I have been having this problem too for a few months.Today I up...