Category Archives: SSMS
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What is (local)?
Leave a commentApril 27, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
When connecting to a SQL Server instance sometimes you’ll see (local), localhost or even just a single period (hard to …
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Change the size of the grid results view in SSMS
1March 4, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
After my post last month about configuring your tools I’ve been on a make my life easier kick and one …
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Configure your tools : T-SQL Tuesday #123
5February 11, 2020 by Kenneth Fisher
Happy T-SQL Tuesday! Thanks for hosting this month Jess Pomfret (blog|twitter) and great topic. Life Hacks. There is one thing …
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What does the User Mapping tab of Login Properties really tell us.
4June 24, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
In case it’s not clear, we are talking about the Login Properties GUI in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). Now, …
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A transport-level error has occurred when sending the request to the server.
4March 27, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
Brent recently did a post called In Azure SQL DB, what does “The connection is broken and recovery is not …
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What version of SQL is SSMS scripting for?
Leave a commentMarch 25, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
Recently (honestly it’s been a few years now) Microsoft split the lifecycle for SSMS out from the general SQL Server …
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Error in SSMS: Attempted to read or write protected memory.
2February 18, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
There are a lot of reasons to write a blog post. One of my favorites is when I’ve been asked …
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Savings changes is not permitted. The changes you have made require the following tables to be dropped and re-created.
4December 17, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
Microsoft does a lot of things to try to help us not shoot ourselves in the foot. This little error …
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SQL Homework – December 2018 – Configure SSMS
Leave a commentDecember 3, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
I’ve committed to posting a piece of homework for you to do each month. I post at the beginning of …
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Dealing with multiple AD accounts
8November 19, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
To help promote the seperation of duties one of the things my company has done is to divide our permissions …
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