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Default database for SQL Server login

October 24, 2023

Why do SQL Server Logins have a default database? Kenneth Fisher and Aaron Bertrand explain this here and here. Here is a sample script to identify logins whose default database no longer exists on the server. Once you identify, you can assign another database as default to avoid the issues explained in the abovementioned two […]

Sensitivity Rank in Data Classification

May 27, 2020

Data Discovery & Classification is supported for SQL Server 2012 and later, and can be used with SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 17.5 or later. Starting SSMS 18.5, a new feature called ‘sensitivity rank’ was added in Data Classification. I will show details about the sensitivity rank in this blog post. I want to thank David Trigano, Program […]

SSMS – Notebook as a destination for Generate Scripts wizard

May 18, 2020

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) was released on April 7th, 2020. You can download this latest version from this link. 18.5 is an update to 18.4 with these new items and bug fixes. One of the features added in this release is to select ‘Azure Data Studio‘ Notebook as a destination for Generate Scripts wizard. […]

SSMS Memory Grant Info

May 11, 2020

Over some time, SQL Server Management Studio has expanded memory grant information. Memory grant provides memory grant estimate as well as actual runtime memory grant information. In this blog post, I will explain each element of ‘Memory Grant Info’, so we can get a better understanding of what those numbers mean? I am using this […]

T-SQL Tuesday #123: SSMS tips to make your day easier

February 11, 2020

I thank Jes Pomfret (blog|twitter) for hosting T-SQL Tuesday #123. The topic for this month is Life hacks to make your day easier. I also want to acknowledge Adam Machanic’s vision behind this project. I learned a lot from some of the #TSQL Tuesday’s and participated in a few. Thank you, Steve Jones (blog|twitter), for coordinating […]



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