Question: How to Generate Script for SQL Server 2005 from SQL Server 2019?
Answer: Actually, I got this question from my client.
SQL SERVER – Boost SQL Server Priority and SSMS 18
Boost SQL Server Priority appeared in the historical SSMS 18.5.1 interface. I showed where to inspect that engine setting.
Count TempDB Data Files: Five Ways to Check in SQL Server
You can count tempdb data files with the Properties window, three queries or the error log. This post shows all five checks with their results, explains what each one reads, and compares the count with the number of CPUs. It also covers the case where the Properties window won’t open.
Execution Plan Wait Stats: Read Them in SSMS and XML
Execution plan wait stats list what one execution of a query waited for, so you don’t have to guess from server-wide totals. This post shows where to find them in SSMS and in the plan XML, reproduces a lock wait with two query windows, and explains the common wait types. It ends with Query Store, which keeps wait totals for many queries.
User Statistics Report in SSMS: Who Is Connected
The User Statistics report in SSMS shows the users who are connected to a database. This post opens the report, answers the same question with a query over sys.dm_exec_sessions, and finds the one application that holds many sessions.
SSMS Command Line Options: Server, Database and Login
SSMS command line options open Management Studio already pointed at a server and a database. This post finds SSMS.exe, lists the switches that SSMS 22 documents in its own usage text, and shows how to turn them into a shortcut without saving a password.
Azure Data Studio- Export Any SQL SERVER Query As JSON
Recently, one of my clients’ Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check asked me if I know a way to export any query as JSON with SSMS.