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.
2023-06-12 (first published: 2019-12-19)
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Tools for development
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.
2019-12-07
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2019-11-18
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SQL SERVER – Maximizing Query Execution Plans On Screen – A Quick Tip
My most of the Comprehensive Database Performance ...
2019-05-23
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...
The...
2019-05-13
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.
First appeared on SQL SERVER – How...
2019-05-08
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...
The...
2019-05-07
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...
The...
2019-05-06
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,...
2019-04-25
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.
2019-04-12
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A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers