Questions related to tools included with or designed for SQL Server.
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Alternatives for SSMS solutions & projects?
According to the official SQL Server Documentation, the use of "Solutions, Projects, and Items" is deprecated. A conspicuous (though somewhat cryptic) warning banner at the top of the MSDN page ...
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Management Studio 2012 Backward Compatibility
Two quick questions for anybody that's tried this:
Will Management Studio 2012 install and run side-by-side with, say, Management Studio 2008? I vaguely recall not being able to do this with 2008 ...
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Software tool to visualize and print DB diagrams
I have some SQL Server databases and use SQL Server Management Studio to manage them.
However, I find that is not very friendly to create, design and print database diagrams (for existing tables).
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Editing built-in templates in Management Studio
I'm running SQL Server Management Studio 2008 (10.0.5500.0) and was attempting to edit the built-in template "Create T-SQL Trigger (New Menu)". I open the Template Explorer, right-click the template, ...
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SQL Server 2008: Diff table data on different servers with exact schema
I'm trying to find a good open source tool that simply compares data in a database on one server to a table (of the same schema) on another server. Then I want to generate INSERT statements for the ...
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RedGate Data Compare without reregistering tables
I am using the RedGate Data Compare tool and set up all my tables with the settings I want to use. This took about 4 hours. I want to be able to use these settings for different DBs but when I select ...
