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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.

I had forgotten about query analyzer, didn't it exist alongside ssms? I think I used to roll it out when things got really serious

Query Analyzer was eventually superseded by SSMS but there was an overlap period IIRC.