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
Tools for development
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
Azure Data Studio Notebooks: GitHub Issues
There are a couple of Azure Data Studio GitHub issues near and dear to my heart that I’d like to point out in the hopes that it’ll raise their...
2019-04-10
2019-03-19
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2016-08-11 (first published: 2015-06-12)
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The Ultimate Tool List
This week Steve Jones looks at a few tools that can help your productivity and links to a few more.
2013-12-30
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2013-12-27
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Free Tools for the SQL Server DBA Part 2
After a very popular first article on tools for the DBA, David Bird is back with a list of some utilities you might find very handy for working with SQL Server.
2010-01-22 (first published: 2008-12-04)
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2008-11-21
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #199 Invitation: Back to on-prem?
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again! And we’re almost to number 200! T-SQL Tuesday...
Data Skew in Data Engineering: What It Is and How to Fix It
You kick off a distributed job expecting it to finish in minutes — but...
Error Deploying GraphQL in Fabric: dm_exec_describe_first_result_set
A while ago we suddenly had an error while trying to deploy one Fabric...
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Question of the Day
Secure Cached Plans
The DMV, sys.dm_exec_cached_plans, contains rows for each cached plan on an instance. In Azure SQL Database, not every used has rights to every database, as there does exist an instance behind each database. How is security handled for this DMV in Azure?
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