{"id":69,"date":"2011-08-12T07:59:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T07:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sqlserverlearner.azurewebsites.net\/2011\/08\/12\/cannot-open-object-explorer-in-ssms\/"},"modified":"2011-08-12T07:59:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T07:59:56","slug":"cannot-open-object-explorer-in-ssms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sqlserverlearner.com\/2011\/08\/12\/cannot-open-object-explorer-in-ssms\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannot open object explorer in SSMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Problem:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen you try to open object explorer in SQL Server management studio object explorer does not come up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fix:<\/strong><br \/>\nReset the window layout.<br \/>\nTo reset the lay out in SQL Server Management Studio, Select <strong>Window <\/strong> Menu and Select <strong>Reset Window Layout<\/strong> Option<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nWindow &gt; Reset Window Layout<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_1179\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1179\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sqlserverlearner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Cannot-Show-Object-Explorer-in-SSMS-Reset-Window-Layout.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Cannot-Show-Object-Explorer-in-SSMS-Reset-Window-Layout-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Cannot View Object Explorer in SSMS - Reset Window Layout\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1179\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reset Window Layout<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This should fix the issue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Problem details:<\/strong><br \/>\nAll the options of opening object explorer will be unsuccessful and object explorer does not show up.<br \/>\nusing menu view &gt; object explorer<br \/>\nusing F8 Shortcut key<\/p>\n<p>Even if SSMS is reopened object explorer does not show up, also after restarting the system object explorer is not visible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem: When you try to open object explorer in SQL Server management studio object explorer does not come up. Fix: Reset the window layout. To reset the lay out in SQL Server Management Studio, Select Window Menu and Select Reset Window Layout Option Window &gt; Reset Window Layout This should fix the issue. Additional Problem&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,3],"tags":[187,188,189,190,191,192,193,194,195,196,197,198,199,200,201],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlserverlearner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlserverlearner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlserverlearner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlserverlearner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlserverlearner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sqlserverlearner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlserverlearner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlserverlearner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlserverlearner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}