The SSMS Super Clipboard (Day 13)
We’re all used to using the clipboard in Windows programs. You copy something into it with Ctrl+C, and paste it...
2018-01-13
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Wayne Sheffield
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Changing Case (Day 12)
In yesterday’s tip, I showed an example of changing a block of text from upper case to lower case. However,...
2018-01-12
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Block Select/Replace (Day 11)
While Regular Expressions lets us work with text not cleanly formatted, if you are trying to work with text that...
2018-01-11
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Regular Expressions (Day 10)
Have you ever downloaded a script from an internet site, only to find that there are extra blank lines between...
2018-01-10
450 reads
Multi-Server Queries (Day 9)
Have you ever had to run a query on multiple servers? You could connect to each server one by one...
2018-01-09
424 reads
SQLCMD Mode (Day 8)
Have you ever had a script where you needed to run parts of it on different instances of SQL Server...
2018-01-08
432 reads
SSMS Solutions (Day 1)
Since SSMS is built upon Visual Studio, many of the features available to Visual Studio are also available to SSMS....
2018-01-08 (first published: 2018-01-01)
3,228 reads
Vertical Scroll Bar Map Mode (Day 6)
Have you ever had a long script that you are trying to scroll through? Do you wish that you could...
2018-01-06
530 reads
Working with Query Files (Day 5)
So you’re working with a query that you have loaded from a saved file. And now you want to open...
2018-01-05
362 reads
Pinned Tabs (Day 4)
Have you ever been working in SSMS where you need to frequently access one particular script, but you are spending...
2018-01-04
409 reads
Blogs
How to: Regain SysAdmin Access to a SQL Server Instance Without the SA Password
By gbargsley
Hello, reader! Today, I’m going to walk you through a scenario that many DBAs...
Secure Your SQL Estate: Best Practices for Azure SQL Security
By Chris Yates
The Castle and the Keys Imagine your Azure SQL environment as a sprawling digital...
The Book of Redgate: Meetings
By Steve Jones
I think we might have forgotten this a bit, but on one of the...
Forums
Visual Studio SSIS Package Showing Up Blank
Hi all, this is my first time posting on this forum, thank you all...
MySQL 5.6 not writing any logs
We are using MySQL version 5.6 in our Windows Server 2012 R2 environment. We...
How to resolve issue of custom Audit log table containing incorrect data?
We have created a parent table, child table & Audit log table in SQL...
Question of the Day
Change Tracking Default Retention
I run this command on my SQL Server 2022 database:
ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks2017 SET CHANGE_TRACKING = ON;What is the default data retention period? See possible answers