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August 6th, 2008

SQL Studio Management Tab Naming

Working a significant amount of time in SQL Server Management Studio this week, I was again reminded that there’s one lack of usefulness in the application that gets really annoying.
The screenshot of the interface above I’ve highlighted how the tabs appear when you have multiple query windows open.
If you open just a table or […]

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August 5th, 2008

Using SQL Profiler Tool

I’ve been immersing myself in a lot of SQL work the past week or so for a project going on at work. I’ve come a long way in my knowledge of SQL up to this point and the past few days have expanded that understanding into some new areas as well.
One of those areas is […]

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April 10th, 2008

Top 10 Features in SQL Server 2008

Dan Rigsby (@danrigsby) shared some slides of information including his Top 10 Features of SQL Server 2008 at the IndyNDA meeting in Indianapolis, IN.

LINQ
Intellisense for SQL Server
FileStream Datatype
Date & Time Datatype
DateTime2 & DateTimeOffset Datatype
Hierarchical Datatype: i.e. org charts
Spatial Datatype: geography, geometry
T-SQL […]

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