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It is running W.Server 2012 R2 and it has 2 cores with 12 gigs of RAM and over 6GB free in the virtual drive where it is installed on.
When you click the app shortcut/icon, do you get the splash screen? Any errors? Also, after waiting for the app tpo open, open Task Manager, do you see SSMS - SQL Server Management listed in the processes list?
What is the operating system, and what are the resources of the computer? Are you at the desktop of is it a remote connection? I'll give that a go and see what I can find! I installed it to follow the steps above but the program never managed to start. I have no idea what he did, but maybe someone else reading this knows more?īasically I'm trying to do the following to fix the error:ĭid it ever work on the computer? If so, wehat changes happened before it started failing? I would try to monitor the application to try to catch where the failing happens, if the application is not loaded, something is shotting it off, try Sysinternals' Process Monitor. A colleague fixed it by having me get the latest backup and the he did something to graft something in that onto the running system. You are using SQL Management Studio but you want to look at some Windows (operating system) databases, not Microsoft SQL databases? Never tried that, but did recently have a case where the SQL master database was corrupt and SQL Management Studio would crash when you got to point of trying to connect or list the databases. Your best option is Microsoft Sysinternals Process Monitor.Ĭheck this post -> Fix SQL Management Loading Issue
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The splash screen pops up then it disappears so I'm a bit perplex about the lack of any logs.Īny 3rd party software that you can think of could "sniff" what's going on when attempting to open it? I just tried filtering it and nothing either, it detects 0 records the moment I apply the filter. Look in the Event Viewer / Application, you can filter by Source - MSSQLSERVER You can see the boot screen pop up and disappear shortly after, but nothing happens. Re-installing an older version of SSMS.Choosing repair using the installation launcher.