The newest version of SQL Server Management Studio is now available for download. Lots of new features and fixes. The details and download links can be found here. Happy managing, Andy Kelly

    SQL Updates Newsletter – July 2017 It has been a few months since my last post on these but here is the latest update about the monthly newsletter that a good friend of mine (Fany Carolina Vargas) from Microsoft puts together each month. This shows a whole host of goodies related to SQL Server which include but are not limited to ...

  I missed posting the last few months of these but here is the latest update about the monthly newsletter that a good friend of mine (Fany Carolina Vargas) from Microsoft puts together each month. This shows a whole host of goodies related to SQL Server which include but are not limited to the following: Recent Releases and ...

  Microsoft released a few more Cumulative Updates for SQL Server 2014 as listed below. There are a number of interesting fixes so I highly recommend if you have SQL Server 2014 to take a look at the list of hotfixes included in each update. SQL 2014 SP1 CU11 SQL 2014 SP2 CU4 Happy patching, Andy

  Here is the latest update about the monthly newsletter that a good friend of mine (Fany Carolina Vargas) from Microsoft puts together each month which shows a whole host of goodies related to SQL Server which include but are not limited to the following: Recent Releases and Announcements Recent White Papers, E-Books, Training and ...

  There was a slight issue with the SSMS version that was released a few days back (16.5.2) which has been fixed and replaced with release 16.5.3. If you want the latest SQL Server SSMS 2016 release or if you already loaded the 5.2 version you should get this one. SSMS 2016 Version 16.5.3 Andy

  There are some new updates for SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2016 that were released today. I am not sure what happened to SQL 2014 but I suspect those will be out shortly as well. Here are the links and the associated KB’s. SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2 CU16 – KB3205054 SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 3 CU7   – KB3205051 SQL ...

  This is a friendly reminder about a monthly newsletter that a good friend of mine (Fany Carolina Vargas) from Microsoft puts together each month which shows a whole host of goodies related to SQL Server which include but are not limited to the following: Recent Releases and Announcements Recent White Papers, E-Books, Training and ...

  It would be awesome if we could use source control such as TFS directly in SSMS like we can in Visual Studio but at the moment we can’t for the reasons explained by Ken Van Hyning in this blog post.  However he also explains how we can manually add some components that will give us the ability to use TFS with SSMS in the mean ...

  The SQL Nexus set of utilities are some of the most under utilized tools available to the SQL Server community. I used and touted the RML utility for many years to help people analyze trace information very fast and easily. Eventually XE traces were added to the list along with much more.  This blog post link will give you a pretty ...