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SSMS Tools Pack now supports Denali CTP1
Earlier today, Mladen Prajdić ( blog | twitter ) released an updated version of his SSMS Tools Pack (v.1.9.4), a free add-in for Management Studio that provides a ton of helpful functionality that...
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Connect Digest : 2011-03-26
This week I have collected five important bugs involving Management Studio, and I hope you'll visit them, provide input and vote on the ones you think are worthwhile. #651176 : SSMS tries to access...
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Connect Digest : 2011-04-11
This week I decided to focus on some of the long-outstanding issues with IntelliSense in Management Studio. While I know many of you are using 3rd party tools like RedGate's SQL Prompt, not everybody...
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SQL Server v.Next (Denali) : Getting Ctrl+R to work again
Ctrl+R is a good friend of mine - we go way back. It is very handy to use this command not only to hide the results pane away and focus on the query at hand, but to also be able to bring the results...
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SQL Sentry Plan Explorer : New release and an SSMS add-in
Today we released a new build of SQL Sentry Plan Explorer. The build # is 6.2.34 and you can download it from the usual location . Plan Explorer Changes The updates in this release include the...
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Connect Digest : 2011-08-08
This week I reported a few bugs - one with sp_helptext, one with Activity Monitor in Management Studio, and one in the new sys.dm_server_services DMV. #683234 : sp_helptext treats non-system objects as...
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How to find missing indexes quickly in SQL Sentry Plan Explorer
This question came up on twitter, and I thought a quick blog post would be better than a series of 140-character snippets. Management Studio does not do the best job at highlighting missing indexes. If...
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A demo kit for SQL Sentry Plan Explorer
Plan Explorer is a free application from SQL Sentry , designed to make execution plan analysis faster and easier. It was developed in response to customer demand for deeper query analysis, but was...
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SQL Sentry Plan Explorer v1.3
On Friday, we published a new version of our free query plan analysis tool, SQL Sentry Plan Explorer . As noted in the change list , we've added a couple of important features. SQL Server 2012 support...
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Getting graphical ShowPlans back in SQL Server 2008 R2
For those of you using the SQL Server 2008 R2 version of Management Studio, and have applied Service Pack 1, you have probably noticed that clicking on a ShowPlan in grid results no longer shows the...
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Connect Digest : 2011-12-01
Where is my graphical ShowPlan? Many of you on SQL Server 2008 R2 are experiencing a major annoyance with SSMS since installing service pack 1 - when clicking a plan from grid results, you get raw XML...
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T-SQL Tuesday #25 : T-SQL Tips 'n' Tricks
This month's T-SQL Tuesday is being hosted by Allen White ( @SQLRunr ) and is about sharing your T-SQL tips and tricks . Since I know many people will share their T-SQL magic and wizardry, I thought I...
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Comparing multiple plans in SQL Sentry Plan Explorer
I’ve seen the question a few times now: “How do I compare two plans side-by-side in Plan Explorer?” Management Studio allows you to view multiple graphical plans that are visible simultaneously, either...
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Why people think some SQL Server 2000 behaviors live on... 12 years later
A long, long time ago in a galaxy you can reach out and touch right now, ORDER BY in a VIEW meant something. If you had a view like the following: CREATE VIEW dbo.Rubbish AS SELECT TOP 100 PERCENT...
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Connect Digest : 2012-07-06
I've filed a few Connect items recently that I think are important. In #752210 , I complain that the documentation for DDL triggers suggests that they can prevent certain DDL from being run, which is...
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