I've filed a few Connect items recently that I think are important. In #752210, I complain that the documentation for DDL triggers suggests that they can prevent certain DDL from being run, which is not the case at all.      ...

This week I decided to focus on some of the long-outstanding issues with IntelliSense in Management Studio. While I know many of you are using 3rd party tools like RedGate's SQL Prompt, not everybody has that luxury - in my case, I can't justify a license for every single server I touch, since I can't connect to every environment using SSMS ...

This week I have collected five important bugs involving Management Studio, and I hope you'll visit them, provide input and vote on the ones you think are worthwhile. #651176 : SSMS tries to access disconnected network drives when in the Save File As wizardPaul Randal (blog | twitter) filed this issue when he experienced significant delays trying ...

It's been a while since I hosted a true Connect pity party digest, trying to pimp your votes for the issues I think are worthwhile.  And okay, some of these bugs haven't been filed in the Denali time frame - but those are still in Denali's version of SSMS.  And since we are not expecting a release for a year, and the next CTP won't be ...

This afternoon, Adam Machanic (blog | twitter) reminded me how the current T-SQL debugger in Management Studio is ineffective.  Sure, there are some enhancements coming in Denali (I mentioned them briefly yesterday), but there are some real key elements missing.  One of the most glaring omissions is the ability to see the contents of ...

Welcome to October!  This week I have five SQL Server items to point out to you, and two Connect-specific issues. /*------------------------------------------------------*/     SQL Server /*------------------------------------------------------*/ #331220 : Backup / Restore without index dataGreg Linwood has been pushing for ...

I missed last week because I was having fun up in Canada... mostly without any kind of computer access at all.  It was a nice break, but now I'm back in the thick of things again.  So this week, I am going to try to beef it up a bit to compensate for last week's missing entry. =================================== DELETE vs. DROP I ...

Inspired both directly and indirectly by fellow MVP Erland Sommarskog, whose programming wishlist I talked about the other day, I have decided to compile a list of my own wish list items, in the same spirit of, ''it's never too early.''  This list is restricted to issues involving Management Studio; I was going to cover all of ...