A Fine Slice Of SQL Server
John Deardurff shares the news:
Microsoft has announced that SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22 is now generally available! This latest release brings powerful new capabilities to enhance your SQL Server experience:
Click through to see what’s new and see the original Microsoft blog post on the topic. One thing to note is that the query hint recommendation tool is still in preview, so you do need to select it as an individual component to install.
Leave a CommentEduardo Pivaral uses the MSSQL extension in Visual Studio Code:
You are a developer using SQL Server for your applications, and you need to quickly setup a local development environment. How can you make sure the environment is OS agnostic, so it can run on any operating system? Let’s see how we can quickly create a local container to run SQL Server using the VSCode MSSQL Extension.
Read on for the instructions. I still do the old-fashioned thing of opening up a terminal window and running docker commands, but this is pretty convenient.
Steve Jones notes one interesting change to backups in SQL Server 2025:
I’ve been a DBA (or Ops manager) for quite a bit of my career, and one of the things I’ve thought was top priority was backups. I always want to be sure I have a recovery strategy, because if I don’t, nothing matters. Things go wrong and systems fail and I need to protect systems.
Security is a close second, but backups really matter.
Something else backup-related that Steve doesn’t mention is the new form of backup compression using ZSTD. Initial testing of this has been fairly positive and I think it’s worth trying it out as well.
Leave a CommentDeb Melkin is looking forward to a pair of features:
When I look at this release, I feel like I’ve been more tuned into what’s coming out than any other. I’m still not sure how that happened. But I think overall it’s a good thing because there really is a lot being packed into this release. If you’re just trying to figure out now, you’re already behind.
There are really 2 features that I’m really excited about:
Read on to learn more about both of them.
Leave a CommentChad Callihan is excited about a limitation:
I had written most of this blog post before seeing this month’s T-SQL Tuesday invite. I decided to hold off a few days to post because, while it’s no secret, I think it’s worth pointing out to those that may not know: before you spend time testing SQL Server 2025, make sure you consider what version of Developer Edition to use.
You may read that and ask, “What do you mean? Isn’t there only one Developer Edition?” That used to be the case, but not anymore.
Read on to see why this is important for a large number of companies.
Leave a CommentTo demo what I mean, I’m going to take the Users table from the Stack Overflow database, and I’m going to pretend that we’re only storing the Id column, and the rest of the columns are JSON, stored in a UserAttributes column. Let’s create a new Users_JSON table to simulate it:
Read on and stay tuned for the way that SQL Server 2025 changes this.
Leave a Comment