Earlier today, Mladen Prajdić (blog | twitter) released an updated version of his SSMS Tools Pack (v.1.9.4), a free add-in for Management Studio that provides a ton of helpful functionality that isn't available with the native tools.  I'm really glad this happened, because I've installed Denali on all of my VMs and have been using it for most ...

One of the reasons for contained databases (see my previous post) is to allow for a more seamless transition when moving a database from one server to another.  One of the biggest complications in doing so is making sure that all of the logins are in place on the new server.  Contained databases help solve this issue by creating a new ...

Sorry to call this out in a separate post (I talked about a bunch of SSMS Connect items the other day), but Aaron Nelson (blog | twitter) jogged my memory today about an issue that has gone unfixed for years: the custom coloring for Registered Servers is neither consistent nor global. For one of my servers, I've chosen a red color to show in the ...