Category: Random helpfulness

Converting MS Office Files

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date May 20, 2010
Categories In Random helpfulness, SQLPASS, Twitter
1 Comment on Converting MS Office Files

This is a very quick note on converting Office files, because I know I’ll need it someday… Our dear friend @LadyRuna (Andie LeTourneau) asked for help on Twitter today; someone had sent her an Excel file that was saved as a later version than she had installed. After many recommendations from the Tweeps, she said: […]

Custom Keyboard Shortcuts in SSMS

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date March 26, 2010
Categories In Beginner, Random helpfulness, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC, Tips, TSQL
3 Comments on Custom Keyboard Shortcuts in SSMS

Content rating: Beginner, Tip I KNOW I blogged about custom SSMS shortcuts before, but dang if I can find it. I use certain commands SEVERAL times a day, and I’m in love with shortcuts. So the SMS keyboard shortcuts dialog is just perfect for me. You already have three default shortcuts when you install SSMS: […]

Perfmon, .blg, .csv, and my love for the internetz

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date November 19, 2009
Categories In Intermediate, Random helpfulness, sql server, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC

I'm so in love with the Internetz, I think I'll marry it. I just semi-borked a load test I was supposed to be tracing…perfmon wouldn't start at the last minute, and in the scramble to get it going, I not only forgot to start my SQL trace, I also left the perfmon output file in […]