Thursday, May 25, 2006 - Posts

Top Trick in Management Studio

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I blogged last July about the ability to select column headers when copying from a grid in Management Studio into excel or notepad, and that it left something to be desired when copying one value.

Well for the RTM they change the behaviour so that if you select more than one column the headers are include otherwise they are not.

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posted Thursday, May 25, 2006 9:30 PM by SimonSabin with 0 Comments

Are you allowed to be sizeist in the database world

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Well even if your not, one of my real bug bears is fat tables. These aren't large tables they are fat tables, wide ones with lots of columns or large data types.

The reason this gets is is people develop databases with 10s of rows in them. Then end up with millions of rows in them in a live environment and find this things just don't perform.

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posted Thursday, May 25, 2006 5:33 PM by SimonSabin with 1 Comments

and now for something completely different...

Euanga is leaving the SQL team and joining the Visual Studio Team on Team Test. I relaly hope Euan can take some of his immense SQL knowledge and push for some great SQL testing tools.

Euan your shirts have always been memorable, you must be glad with a new team you can now get a new one. Good luck with your new team.

posted Thursday, May 25, 2006 4:51 PM by SimonSabin with 0 Comments

Mythbusters, SQL Server History follow up

Fantastic insight into the size of the SQL teams by the number of signatures on the boxes right from version 1 up to 2005 (much bigger box)

Mythbusters, SQL Server History follow up

posted Thursday, May 25, 2006 12:46 PM by SimonSabin with 0 Comments

IIS Site launch

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Microsoft have launched a new site

"Inside you will find deep technical content, training, blogs, forums, searchable tech center and more. Also inside is the most comprehensive look at IIS7 which is available publicly as of today as part Vista Beta 2 and Longhorn Server Beta 2"

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posted Thursday, May 25, 2006 9:56 AM by SimonSabin with 0 Comments

Moving my blog

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I am moving my blog from sqljunkies to sqlblogcasts.com  http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/simons

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posted Thursday, May 25, 2006 1:03 PM by SimonSabin with 0 Comments

Tab groups in SQL Server Management Studio

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Every wanted to compare two scripts side by side in Query Analyser so you've tried to tile the windows, only to realise that you've got 8 windows open so you end up with a mad mosaic of tilled windows. where you can only see a few lines of each window.

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posted Thursday, May 25, 2006 10:41 AM by SimonSabin with 0 Comments