Category Archives: SSMS
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What is the Object Explorer Details tab good for?
Leave a commentOctober 17, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
For a long time there I would see the Object Explorer Details tab show up when I opened SSMS (SQL …
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Copying formatted text out of a grid column.
3August 27, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
I was reading a post today by Bert Wagner (b/t). Displaying Long Variable Values in SQL Server By the way, …
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Code I’d Hate To Live Without: T-SQL Tuesday #104
1July 10, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
It’s TSQL Tuesday again! This time our respected host is Bert Wagner (b/t). Quick aside, if you haven’t seen his …
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SSMS’s Dark Theme
3April 4, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
There has been talk of a dark theme for SSMS for years. Does it exist, will it exist? Well, the …
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Help it takes forever to open the SQL Server Log!
Leave a commentJanuary 24, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
Just to be very clear, I’m talking about the SQL Server Log, not database logs. Sometimes this is called the …
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SQL Homework – September 2017 – Create a home lab
2September 5, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
As I wrote my post about installing the latest version of SSDT I realized that my homework posts missed something …
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Default SQL Agent Reports – Top Jobs
1July 24, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
Looking at what a job has been doing is important. Particularly if something is going wrong. Now there are several …
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Default Database Reports – Disk Usage by Table
2July 19, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
Every now and again you need to know how big a table is. Or several tables. Or all of the …
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Default Instance Reports – Configuration Changes History
Leave a commentJuly 17, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
Hey, who changed the max memory setting for the xyz instance? The good news is that this information is captured …
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Default reports in SSMS
1July 13, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
As DBAs our stock in trade is information and there is certainly an impressive amount available. The diagnostic views are …
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