Category: sqlserverpedia-syndication

Demo: What’s the difference between CHAR and VARCHAR?

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date April 30, 2010
Categories In Beginner, sql server, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC, TSQL
2 Comments on Demo: What’s the difference between CHAR and VARCHAR?

Content level: Beginner / refresher At last week’s SQL Saturday 41 Atlanta, I gave my TSQL Beginner’s Kit session in the last time slot of the day, to deafening applause and accolades. Actually, there were about 12 of us in the room, and we had a really good time. One of the more popular items in […]

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 […]