As a guess - did the person who installed SSMS install it using an admin account on the machine and install all of the components as "all user" not "current...

A lot to unpack there, but to summarize git is included with VS, but there is no server associated with it. So all the git stuff would be local which...

I would argue that by doing that you may be wasting space. For example, you said you have a 1 TB disk for TempDB, but if TempDB never goes over...

As far as I am aware, there is no source control module for report builder. But that being said, there is no reason you need visual studio either. There area ...

why would you want to turn off autogrow? Autogrow is there so you don't need to manually grow if an unexpected query runs that causes database growth? I mean, with...

Maybe I'm a bit slow here, but is there a reason you need all of that?

With REPLACE, if the character doesn't exist in the string, it should return the string,...

Most people on this forum are English speakers, but I will do my best with google translate to try to help.

If I am not mistaken, READPAST is not a valid...

My understanding is that with write heavy databases, RCSI can help as the read operations are no longer blocked by the writes. That being said, you are going to see...

"The maintenance installation script that creates all of the stored procedures is over 9000 lines. I am not going to spend the hours reviewing that "

I dont review the 9000...

Now, nothing against Ola Hallengren's script, but I prefer something I can support and that is more targeted to my environment. I also prefer small, specific scripts...

Just because I was curious, I looked into this and I am a bit skeptical on it.

I found this website with more information on it:

https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Experimental_Verification_of_the_NKTg_Law_Using_NASA_Neptune_Data_(2023%E2%80%932024)

Where some assumptions are being made...

Just to add to the advice - I would advise against SELECT * unless it is absolutely necessary. The reason being if the source metadata changes (column added or column...

interesting.   i generally rdp into that machine and more often than not when i disconnect, ssms is still left running under my creds.   let me see if that makes...

Another thing it can be that I have seen is if I leave SSMS open and connected to a system for a long period of time, SSMS gets slow. If...

As a guess - how much free resources (memory specifically) do you have when it gets into the funk and what is your max memory configuration? I am thinking it...