SSMS Tips and Tricks 4-7: Viewing client statistics
While SQL Server is quite fast at executing queries, when you are connecting from a client application like SSMS, you might wonder how much time SQL Server spent executing the query, as opposed to how long the communication with the server took.
This type of information is available in the Client Statistics.
Let’s see an example. If I connect to a server in an Azure data center, I’ll have higher latency than for one in my own site. That will affect the wait time for a server response. I’ll connect to a server that I have aliased as SDUAzure. The server is in the Australia South East data center.
2025-08-11