Since I really want to switch most of my SSMS usage to a tool being less resource intensive, as a truckload of my work is just running scripts, not browsing through data: [WayBack] Use the Visual Studio Code mssql extension for SQL Server | Microsoft Docs
This tutorial shows how to use the mssql extension for VS Code. This extension allows you to edit and run Transact-SQL scripts in VS Code.
This will also make it a lot easier to run my code from a Mac.
–jeroen