Shortcut: Using dark theme in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is based on the Visual Studio shell. What is puzzling sometimes is that features that are present in Visual Studio are not present in SSMS. One of these relates to themes. “Out of the box”, Visual Studio looks like this:
When you write code, the windows look like this:
Some people don’t like the “whiteness” of the whole screen and find darker colors easier to work with for long periods. In Visual Studio, you can change this. In Tools, then Options, you can change the theme:
2018-05-31