SQL Server Management Studio free time tracking

How much time do you spend in SQL Server Management Studio? Get the WakaTime plugin and track your programming in real-time.

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Measure Your Coding

The WakaTime plugin for SQL Server Management Studio gives you real-time metrics per project, file, branch, commit, feature, operating system, language, etc.

Gain Insights

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Improve Your Productivity

Compete with your friends on private leaderboards, improve your daily coding average, and check your rank against other WakaTime users.

Used by Top Companies

I love the insight WakaTime gives me on my projects. With WakaTime I know exactly where my time went down to the file.
TJ Holowaychuk
Creator of Express.js
WakaTime is brilliant! It makes me so much more productive.
Maya Wright
Software engineer
You can’t improve what you don't measure. I use WakaTime to measure my coding and improve my productivity.
Robert Adams
Software engineer

Open Source

We value Open Source and make a point to release all our plugins on GitHub under a BSD License.

Install the plugin

  1. Download the latest release.

  2. Right click the downloaded zip file, click Properties, click Unblock.

  3. Unzip the content.

  4. Run AddPackage.bat to add WakaTime extension into registry white list.

  5. Copy the folder WakaTime.v18 to the desired installation folder:

    C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 18\Common7\IDE\Extensions

    Or, for SSMS versions before v18 copy the folder WakaTime to the desired installation folder(s):

    • v2012 - C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Tools\Binn\ManagementStudio\Extensions
    • v2014 - C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\120\Tools\Binn\ManagementStudio\Extensions
    • v2016 - C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\130\Tools\Binn\ManagementStudio\Extensions
    • v17 - C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\140\Tools\Binn\ManagementStudio\Extensions

  6. Enter your API Key, then press enter.

  7. Use SQL Server Management Studio like normal and your stats will automatically show on your WakaTime Dashboard.

Note: If you see error Appid denied the loading of package {52D9C3FF-C893-408E-95E4-D7484EC7FA47} and the extension is blocked, try running as administrator.