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I just upgraded my SSMS to 2008 R2. I'm missing the option to select the top 1000 rows from a table, like this: Mine looks like this: I know how to change the number of rows that are displayed, but the options aren't there at all. I saw that someone submitted a bug for this a few years ago, but there was no workaround, and I'm not sure what to do. Any ideas? EDIT - Azure Problem? I just used SSMS to open my local SQL Server, and I get the option to select the top 100 rows. But in my other SSMS instance, the one that is connected to my Azure DB, I don't see it. Is it possibly an Azure

Whilst installing SSMS 2016, I get the following error and setup terminates: SQL Server 2016 Common Files: A valid destination folder for the install could not be determined. I've tried the following solutions: Delete all files in %TEMP% folder Check that BootstrapDir exists in HKLM The above 2 options where suggested on the MS sites. I have administrator privileges and I must also add that I have already installed SSMS 2016 on this machine but I removed it to clean up some space. Any ideas what I might look for to solve this problem? This is the exact error message I was getting:

Many code editors have a built-in menu item or keyboard function to get a UUID, for example when I press CTRL + SHIFT + G in Delphi it inserts a GUID at the current position in the source code. I know that I can use SELECT NEWID() to generate a UUID, but I have to go to the query result, copy the generated UUID to my clipboard (killing whatever was in there before) and then go back to the code and replace the query which is an awful way of dealing with this. Is there any function (maybe using IntelliSense code snippets?) to do this in SQL Server Management Studio that I haven't found yet? Some

I want to keep a table as history and replace it with an empty one. How can I do this through Management Studio? froadie Duplicate your table into a table to be archived: SELECT * INTO ArchiveTable FROM MyTable Delete all entries in your table: DELETE * FROM MyTable Don't have sql server around to test but I think it's just: insert into newtable select * from oldtable; select * into x_history from your_table_here; truncate table your_table_here; Either you can use RAW SQL: INSERT INTO DEST_TABLE (Field1, Field2) SELECT Source_Field1, Source_Field2 FROM SOURCE_TABLE Or use the wizard: Right

I am new to SQL Server Express and I want to create a new trigger on my table. But I found that the 'New trigger' button in my table's trigger folder shows Disabled. When I right click on trigger folder it shows 'New trigger' button disabled and in gray color. I am using SQL Server 2014 Express and Management Studio 2014. Does anybody have any idea why it is happening? Please suggest me some way out. This a known issue (bug) with SSMS 2014. Reference : https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/873249/ssms-2014-new-trigger-is-disabled-for-older-2012-2008r2-versions-of-sql-server

Need to duplicate a TABLE using Microsoft SQL Management Studio 2008 The TABLE needs to duplicate all table row (Primary Key) ID as well. Thanks. SQLMenace In SSMS open a new query window and then do something like SELECT * INTO NewTable FROM OldTable change NewTable to the name that the new table should have, change OldTable to the name of the current table this will copy over the basic table structure and all the data...it will NOT do any of the constraints, you need to script those out and change the names in those scripts I prefere the copy / paste solution as it is documented here . It

Can you apply a custom skin / appearance to SSMS? I am thinking something along the lines of a dark theme (black background, yellow font) you'd find in most IDEs NateJ SSMS 2012 is build on the VS 2010 shell. Thus, it can use compatible ".vssettings" files to apply custom color schemes. See also http://studiostyl.es/ for a gallery. mycargus I decided to try something simple on SSMS 2012 : Go to http://studiostyl.es/ Pick a theme and download it Follow these screenshot instructions Note that doing this will only affect the theme of the text editor, not the toolbar, menu, object explorer window,