I still miss the tool it replaced, SQL Query Analyzer/Profiler. To this day it's my favourite SQL 'IDE'.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/msdn-magazine/2005...
Those features/tools are still part of SSMS today.
Yeah, it's specifically the old applications I miss.
They were really well designed, incredibly snappy and responsive. When SSMS was launched it was really slow and clunky on my computer.
I switched to Postgres around that time so I'm 20 years out of touch at this point.