So I am unfortunate enough to work in an organization who uses SSMS18, meaning I don't have the built-in debugger for SSMS. I am relegated to using VS2019 Professional to set break points and step through stored procedures. No Biggie, right?
Well when I select "Execute with Debugger" (can't see the selection in GIF for some reason) it loads then executes and never hits my breakpoint.
I followed these posts below to no avail.
How to debug stored procedure in VS 2015?
This one I could not find what he was describing in step 6, but I debugged a SQL-Query in VS2019 before, but that was a local instance and not a remote server like it is in this case.
Cannot execute breakpoint inside stored procedure from VS 2017
below is a gif of what is happening
Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
Download and Install a version of SSMS < version 18. Then you will be able to debug.