Do you still use SQL Server Management Studio or do you use Azure Data Studio? I was recently asked during my recent Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, Well, the answer is I am still using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) as I find it very comfortable and it still has many features which are not available in Azure Data Studio (ADS). I do not think that ADS is a replacement of SSMS. They are built for a totally different purpose for a different audience.
SQL SERVER – Read Only Routing Error: Client Unable to Establish Connection Because an Error was Encountered During Handshakes Before Login
I have helped many clients in deploying Always On Availability Group. Based on their requirement they keep using additional features provided by availability groups. This time they wanted to use always-on availability group read-only routing feature. Their goal was to offload read-only workload to the secondary replica. This was failing with error: Client unable to establish a connection because an error was encountered during handshakes before login.
SQL SERVER – Priority Boost and SSMS 18
Just the other day, I had a very interesting experience while using the latest SQL Server Management Studio 18.0 preview 7 (SSMS 18.0) during one of the Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. My client said they have realized that SQL Server does not have settings of Priority Boost settings available in SQL Server anymore. Actually, this is not true, let us quickly understand the same.
SQL SERVER – FIX: Database Diagram Error 15517 – Cannot Execute as the Database Principal Because the Principal ‘dbo’ Does Not Exist
Today’s blog post is directly inspired by the conversation I had during my Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. During the consulting engagement, one of the developers reported below error in the database while trying to open a database diagram.
SQL SERVER – How to Invoke SSMS Help From Command Prompt?
This particular question I just received in my recent SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop. It was a very interesting question and hence I am going to blog about it. The question which I received was – How to Invoke SSMS Help From Command Prompt?
How to Find Table Cardinality from the Execution Plan? – Interview Question of the Week #213
Question: How to Find Table Cardinality from the Execution Plan?
SQL SERVER – Availability Group Seen in SSMS but missing in Cluster Manager. What’s Wrong?
One of my existing clients has sent me an interesting question. In this blog, I would share one interesting situation where my client has created an availability group and it was visible in SSMS, but no role was visible in failover cluster manager.