'Today, we are pleased to announce the latest generally-available (GA) quality release of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 16.5.1. This update fixes a couple issues listed below.
Get it here:
Download SSMS 16.5.1 release
New in this release
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Fixed an issue where Invoke-Sqlcmd erroneously inserts multiple rows when check constraint occurs. Microsoft Connect Item: 811560
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Fixed an issue where Japanese Management Studio 2016 does not work completely in creating Availability Group.
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Fixed an issue where clicking query plan XML does not open the SSMS Graphical UI.
Please visit the SSMS download page for additional details, and to see the full changelog.'...
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlreleaseservices/announcing-sql-server-management-studio-16-5-1-release/?WT.mc_id=AID522292_EML_4737731
'Today, developers can use SQL Server in a variety of environments including on-premises, in datacenters, in virtual machines, in clouds such as Azure, AWS and Google, and also as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering with Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Data Warehouse.
We recently announced SQL Server v.Next CTP1 on Linux and Windows, which brings the power of SQL Server to both Windows - and for the first time ever - Linux. Developers can now create applications with SQL Server on Linux, Windows, Docker, or macOS (via Docker) and then deploy to Linux, Windows, or Docker, on-premises or in the cloud.
As part of this announcement, we have released new SQL tools and also updated existing SQL tools. Developers can use these tools to connect to and work with SQL running anywhere, including SQL Server on Linux, Windows or Docker.'...
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/dataplatforminsider/2016/12/01/using-sql-tools-with-sql-server-on-linux/?WT.mc_id=AID522292_EML_4737731
'I have been working in various roles in the SQL Server Technical support team for the past 15+ years. Currently working as a content manager in the team and am responsible for driving content readiness for our customers and engineers. Among other things related to content, I work with SMEs within our support team to create new KB articles and improve existing ones for various SQL issues to ensure we always have content that is perfect and discoverable. Knowledge sharing is a passion of mine and am greatly excited to use this channel to provide even more troubleshooting resources to our customers within this new experience!'...
https://docs.com/ramu-konidena?fromAR=1#home
'There are multiple ways by which we can find a list of SQL Server instances name instances on a machine. In this blog, I would show a few ways to do it.'...
http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2016/11/12/sql-server-get-list-sql-server-instances-installed-machine/