SSMS Tips and Tricks 5-3: Using the XML editor and increasing the XML output size
Most people use SSMS to edit SQL queries. No big surprise there. The files will have a file type of .sql.
But what many people don’t understand is that SSMS inherits many of its underlying Visual Studio’s abilities to edit other document types.
For example, if you open a .txt text file, you can edit it just fine, and you can also include files like this in SSMS script projects. That can be useful for additional notes and documentation.
2025-08-23