The topic for this month’s TSQL Tuesday, hosted by Allen White, is an invitation to share your tricks.  Before I get into my trick to share, I wanted to mention that Allen is a pretty awesome speaker too.  I got to see his session “Gather SQL Server Performance Data with Powershell” at the SQL Saturday [Keep reading...]

Today I am continuing from my introduction to SSMS Template Explorer.  Part 2 today is a quick look at creating your own templates.  I mentioned in the previous post that if you delete one of the Microsoft provided templates, it will be recreated when you next launch SSMS.  Another thing of note: if you make [Keep reading...]

I have used several different methods for collecting SQL scripts (both that I have written, and have borrowed from others) to reuse.  A few that come to mind include: 1. saving the scripts in individual .sql files somewhere on my hard drive, 2. storing the scripts as an individual page in Microsoft Onenote. 3. saving [Keep reading...]