Comments on: SQL101: Avoiding Mistakes on a Production Database Server

By: Ronen Ariely

Ronen Ariely — Sun, 21 Jan 2018 13:51:27 +0000

>> Using Color

Using different colors for different connections in SSMS is nice, but still it’s too easy to make mistakes, since the colors appear on the bottom but the “look & feel” of the entire windows is the same. You might move a lot from one editor to the other and missed it…

The new “SQL Operations Studio” gives the power to create a whole different “Looks & feel” for each connection. You can create different Workspace for production, testing, QC, or community lectures. Each Workspace can based on different “color theme” and include different dashboards as well. There is no need to open the properties windows in order to change something, and we can create in advance different Workspaces.

* This is not a recommendation to use it always as replacement for the SSMS (yet) at this time, but you might find that for daily work for some people there are advantages (and no installation is needed so you can have it with you anywhere in USB flash disk).

By: Emma Zambonini

Emma Zambonini — Sun, 21 Jan 2018 09:06:05 +0000

I completely agree and still do these techniques because I’ve learnt the hard way. I’d also note if you do use explicit transactions remember to rollback or commit. I’ve seen forgotten transactions cause issues too.

By: Glenn Berry

Glenn Berry — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 13:50:09 +0000

In reply to SelvaDBA. The color-coded connection option works just fine on older version of SSMS. In addition, you can also use SSMS 17.x to manage older versions of SQL Server, going back to SQL Server 2008 with official support.

By: SelvaDBA

SelvaDBA — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 06:27:16 +0000

Good to know !!! But most of us still in 2012 SSMS 🙂

By: Jacki Hamilton

Jacki Hamilton — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 17:50:02 +0000

I also recommend relocating the status bar to the top of the query window. This makes it much more obvious to see, and a more visual reminder to review your connection before running the query.