1. PASS Community News
November 2015

3. Select Virtual Chapter Meetings more events and info at sqlpass
Select Virtual Chapter Meetings more events and info at sqlpass.org/events
VIRTUAL CHAPTER
MEETING
TOPIC
Virtualization
Nov 18 12:00-13:00 UTC-05:00
Architecting Virtual Environments for Business Intelligence
Global Spanish
JSON Support en SQL Server 2016 presented by Carlos Andres Ulate Hernandez
Business Analytics
Rise of the Machine (Learning) – Azure ML in BI, in Apps, and as a product in Azure Marketplace presented by Greg Beaumont
Healthcare
Nov 19 13:00-14:00 UTC-05:00
Health Plan – Payer Analytics: Uncover Insights, Reveal Trends, and Take Action presented by Carrie Nielsen
Performance
Nov 19 14:00-15:00 UTC-05:00
Optimizing your data warehouse for OLAP Processing presented by Konstantin Melamud
Saturday Night SQL
Nov 21 21:00-22:00 UTC-05:00
Reporting Tool Efficiency Discussion
Nov 25 12:00-13:00 UTC-05:00
Vista 360 grados de DataZen presented by Juan Alvarado

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7. SSMS Add-ons Presented By: Nem W. Schlecht
SQL PASS Fargo
SSMS Add-ons
Presented By: Nem W. Schlecht

8. About Me Supervisor for Border States Electric Twitter: @nemws1
Over 3 years experience w/ MSSQL
13 years experience w/ MySQL
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9. SSMS Add-Ons
SSMS Tool Pack SSMS Boost SQL Complete SQL Search SQL Code Guard ExpressProfiler Poor Man’s T-QSL Formatter SQLServerCentral SQL Scripts

10. SSMT Tool Pack Pricing/Compatibility: One of the most popular
Up to 2008R2 – Free
2012 on - $33.06 (€30)
One of the most popular
History and Sessions
Restore Last Session
Save all queries (and Editor contents)
Files
Database

11. SSMT Tool Pack (cont) Debug Sections / Regions Global Replacement Text
Run Custom Scripts
CRUD Generator
Create/Read/Update/Delete procs
Generate INSERT Statements
New Query Template
Text Format
Window Connection Coloring
SQL Snippets
Search Grid Results

12. SQL Complete Express version is free Replacement for Intellisense
Smarter
Faster
Better
Formatting

13. SQL Search
The search tool for databases Does not search data – just structures/procs

14. SQL Code Guard Check for coding pitfalls Dependencies Code Outline
Configurable
Warn
Ignore
Dependencies
What tables/procs does your proc rely on?
Code Outline
Where is that BEGIN/END?
What are the complex parts of your proc?

15. ExpressProfiler
Quick and simple Profiler Good enough 90+% of the time

16. Poor Man’s T-SQL Formatter
Consistent SQL Code formatting
Basic settings
Does 95% of the work (for me)

17. SQLServerCentral SQL Scripts
Large community of thousands of scripts
Searchable
Quick find a script that does what you need.
Incompatible with SQL Complete

18. SSMS Boost Pricing/Compatibility: Script Object Locate Object
Re-download every 120 days
Must upgrade to latest version
Script Object
Locate Object
Fatal actions guard
UPDATE/DELETE w/o WHERE clause
Executed/Editor History
Recent Sessions/Tabs

19. SSMS Boost (cont) Format SQL Regions Vertical guidelines
Includes Poor Man’s T-SQL Formatter
Regions
Vertical guidelines
Connection Management
Auto replacements
Find in Results Grid
ResultsGrid Visualizer
Object search using wildcards

20. SSMS Boost (cont) BEGIN/END block jump navigate
Custom SSMS Window title
Workspaces
Keyboard shortcuts
Dump all SSMS commands

21. SSMS Add-Ons SSMS Tools Pack SSMS Boost SQL Complete SQL Search
SSMS Boost
SQL Complete
SQL Search

22. SSMS Add-Ons (Cont) SQL Code Guard ExpressProfiler
ExpressProfiler
Poor Man’s T-SQL Formatter
SQLServerCentral SQL Scripts

23. Others ApexSQL SSMS Addins on Codeplex SQLServerCentral List
ApexSQL Complete
ApexSQL Refactor
ApexSQL Search
SSMS Addins on Codeplex
SQLServerCentral List

24. SqlSmash - Free

25. SQLTest

26. SQLTest http://www.sqltest.org/ Features
4 to 16 workloads per instance, up to 255 connections per workload, up to 1024 threads per connection.
Easy-to-setup parameterization and value substitution functionality for dynamic load scaling.
XML Reports with various level of statistics, logging and with attachments.
Drive and control test execution from SQL Server with “Server Driven Test” functionality.
Thread level iteration and command settings with “Server Driven Workload” functionality.
Evaluate response time, errors, results, checksum and records affected with “Unit Test” functionality.
Find and Replace support for connection string and SQL command.
Possibility to ignore certain errors at workload or thread or database call level.
Transaction support, can also be used to rollback changes made during tests.
Possibility to add fixed or random think times before database calls to emulate realistic load.
Synchronization of database calls across workloads.

27. Questions?
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