Controlling what appears in the status bar and query tabs (Day 32)
When you run a query in SSMS, you are probably aware that the status bar contains many pieces of information...
2018-02-01
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A Discussion of SQL Server-Related Topics
SSMS Activity Monitor (Day 31)
SSMS provides an Activity Monitor, a process that displays various information about what all is going on with the instance....
2018-01-31
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Reports in SSMS (Day 30)
SSMS has a lot of reports available for you to use. Most of the reports in SSMS are off of...
2018-01-30
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Presenting with SSMS (Day 29)
If you are presenting with SSMS, then there are some extra steps that you need to take. These steps are...
2018-01-29
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Saving SSMS Settings (Day 28)
Over the last several weeks, we have been making several changes to various settings in SSMS. Now that you have...
2018-01-28
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Comparing Query Plans (Day 27)
When you are performance tuning code, you will frequently examine the execution plans to see what is happening. As you...
2018-01-27
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A month of SSMS tips and tricks
Wayne’s Tips and Tricks for SSMS
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS ) is a program that many just launch daily (or only...
2018-01-26
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Working with Comments (Day 26)
We all know that we should liberally document our code with comments, so that others (and even yourself) will know...
2018-01-26
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Using the SSMS Web Browser (Day 25)
One of the things that I do with my code is to include reference links to what I was doing...
2018-01-25
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Using the SSMS Web Browser (Day 25)
One of the things that I do with my code is to include reference links to what I was doing...
2018-01-25
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Blogs
Don’t Fear the Technology
By Brian Kelley
The concern that a particular technology is going to destroy the world seems to...
Creating a Custom SQL Server Security Checklist Using the DoD STIG
The STIG is detailed, which is a good thing, but I found myself wanting...
Creating a Local Model Chatbot on Windows
By Steve Jones
After my session at VSLive last week, I had a few questions from the...
Forums
Querying Multiple Tables for the Same Information
I have about 100 Tables that are all suffixed with _Modify. These tables record...
Make It Routine
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Finding Gaps in Sequential Data Using SQL Server
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Question of the Day
Negative and Positive Numbers
If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?
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