Template Explorer (Day 18)
You may have noticed that in many places in SSMS, you can create a new item and SSMS opens up...
2018-01-18
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Template Explorer (Day 18)
You may have noticed that in many places in SSMS, you can create a new item and SSMS opens up...
2018-01-18
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Template Variables (Day 7)
Do you have scripts that you need to run frequently, but every time you need to set some different parameters?...
2018-01-18 (first published: 2018-01-07)
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Add color to connections (Day 17)
Have you ever wished for a visual indicator that you are connected to a production instance of SQL Server? Well,...
2018-01-17
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Add color to connections (Day 17)
Have you ever wished for a visual indicator that you are connected to a production instance of SQL Server? Well,...
2018-01-17
147 reads
Assign a keyboard shortcut to menu items (Day 16)
You may have noticed that there are many menu commands that don’t have a keyboard shortcut. For instance, SQLCMD mode...
2018-01-16
363 reads
Assign a keyboard shortcut to menu items (Day 16)
You may have noticed that there are many menu commands that don’t have a keyboard shortcut. For instance, SQLCMD mode...
2018-01-16
104 reads
Query Shortcuts in SSMS (Day 15)
There are several shortcuts that can be assigned to run a stored procedure. Known as Query Shortcuts, these can be...
2018-01-15
314 reads
Split Screens (Day 2)
Have you ever wanted to see different parts of the same query window at the same time? Well, in SSMS,...
2018-01-15 (first published: 2018-01-02)
2,304 reads
Object Explorer Drag-N-Drop (Day 14)
Did you know that items in the Object Explorer can be dragged and dropped into a query window? This can...
2018-01-14
300 reads
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The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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