Using the Lightweight Tools

This week Steve is interested in whether the newer lightweight environments, like VS Code and Azure Data Studio, are capturing your interest.

Using All Your Tools

Steve looks at a number of tools that you should spend time learning and building a level of comfort that enables you to use them in your daily work.

Leaving SQLCMD

SQL SERVER – Maximizing Query Execution Plans On Screen – A Quick Tip

My most of the Comprehensive Database Performance ...

A Clean Values Clause with SQL Prompt

I’ve had this code in a snippet for a long time: I appreciate the markup to prevent SQL Prompt from doing this, which used to always happen. I can’t...
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SQL SERVER – How Do I Evaluate Monitoring Tools?

Today, I am going to talk about the 3 important properties which I look for in all the SQL Server Performance monitoring tools.
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Embed Azure Data Studio Notebooks in your website

Notebooks are a functionality available in Azure Data Studio, that allows you to create and share documents that may contain text, code, images, and query results. These documents are...
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Launching ADS from SSMS

If you haven’t heard, SSMS v18 went GA (Generally Availability) recently. You can download it from Microsoft, though if you have a preview version, you do need to uninstall...
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SSMS v18 and Azure Data Studio: The Golden Age of SQL Server Tooling

Yesterday, SQL Server Management Studio 18.0 shipped. Here’s the official announcement, the download page, and the release notes. Yes, it’s still free, and yes, they’re still adding features. Yes,...

AutoRecover in SSMS

Periodically there is a crash, power surge, or sudden reboot of your computer. Of course, you had SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) open and you were working on something important. That seems to be the only time there is a crash/reboot. You can lose work that that was open in SSMS but has not saved.