15Mar 2010 by Grant Fritchey 1 Comment

SNESSUG March Meeting

Misc, SQL Server
Aaron Bertrand showed up to teach us tips and tricks for SQL Server Management Studio. We had to move our meeting night because of a conflict at our wonderful host, New England Tech. But we still had 12 people show up. For SNESSUG, that was a good turnout. I gave away some swag that I had received from Microsoft and some stuff that we had purchased. Bribary works (at least that's my theory, so feel free to bribe me, whenever). Aaron's presentation was great. He's just showing nothing but meat. There's no fluff. He's just showing a series of tips & tricks in SSMS and explains why you want to use them. First revelation, -nosplash has no effect whatsoever on load time. He called it a placebo. It just kept…
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22Jan 2009 by Grant Fritchey 7 Comments

SQL Server 2008 Management Studio Trick

Tools
I just had a Tremors moment. "Everybody knows about 'em Earl, we just never told you." Except that no one I showed it to has ever seen it before. So maybe this is something a little new. I had a database selected in the Object Explorer window and I had the Object Explorer Details window open. I noticed a little icon at the bottom of the screen: Then I saw that the bar above it was a moveable bar. So I moved it and saw this: Whoa! So then I tried a table, HumanResources.Department from AdventureWorks2008: Which caused me to check a procedure: Each line has a little icon on the side that lets you copy it, line by line. It's really just a way to display the basic properties…
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01Apr 2008 by Grant Fritchey 1 Comment

Performance Studio

Tools
I just found out about some new functionality coming out in SQL Server 2008 called Performance Studio. It's actually largely a framework around which you can build performance monitoring routines for an entire enterprise. This sounds terrific. I'm going to dig into a bit and make it my presentation for the Heroes {Community} Launch event at SNESSUG next week. Here's a Technet webcast on the topic. Here's a very nice blog entry over at SQLTeam (I suppose I should ad them to my blog roll) discussing the function of the Data Collector, the foundation for this new framework. Performance Studio only works with 2008 systems though, so that's something to take into account. Although I see an interview with Brad McGehee that says it's not enterprise ready. Another something to take…
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