Recently I have been on the LEAN improvement quest to make a 2 second improvement in my process every day. Part of that improvement is to avoid switching to the mouse when you don’t have to. Here are some shortcut keys that I find very useful in SQL Server Management Studio, some of which I just discovered recently. Window + …
Throughout my career I have worked with different programming and database tools. Thinking back the tools that I enjoyed using were the tools that were easy to get the job done, and the tools that I hated using were the tools that were the most difficult to use. Being good at what I do means mastering the tools so that …
The problem with using the default maintenance plans is that SQL Server Management Studio makes it easy to turn on some features that are really bad practice. Transcription: Steve Stedman 0:09Welcome to today’s training video. I’m Steve Stedman. I’m the founder of Stedman Solutions. Today we’re going to talk about one of the common items reported by the sequel daily …
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Database mail is a critical part of getting notifications from your SQL Server when things go wrong. The problem comes when you have a database mail SMTP account where every 3 months the password expires and needs to be reset. Given you have many SQL Servers that are all using that same SMTP account to send email you may have …
Recently while working on a SQL Server for a client I came across the following error when I attempted to view the SQL Server logs in SSMS. From there I decided I needed to track this down, so I attempted to run the sp_readerrorlog stored procedure, which also failed, but it provided more informaiton. The full error message was: Msg …
While doing a recent server move, I came across the need to script all agent jobs and save them to a file so that if we needed to reference what was there after the move we could get at the agent jobs without having to restart the old SQL Server. It made me realize that sometimes what you want to …
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At the end of my SQL Saturday presentation today on Advanced Common Table Expressions, which is about the 12th time I have presented on CTEs, I was asked a question that I have been asked many times after I present. I am blogging about this because I have been asked about it so many times. This one one of those …
# The key to twitter is to follow the right hash tags. What hash tags do you follow related to Microsoft SQL Server? Here are a few of the twitter hash tags that I follow: #SQLServer The generic SQL Server hash tag. Most anything goes on this hash tag. #SQLHelp The #SQLHelp hash tag is great when you need to …
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Throughout my career I have worked with different programming and database tools. Thinking back the tools that I enjoyed using were the tools that were easy to get the job done, and the tools that I hated using were the tools that were the most difficult to use. Being good at what I do means mastering the tools so that …
Recently I have been on the LEAN improvement quest to make a 2 second improvement in my process every day. Part of that improvement is to avoid switching to the mouse when you don’t have to. Here are some shortcut keys that I find very useful in SQL Server Management Studio, some of which I just discovered recently. Window + …