Is there a way in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, to program a function key?
I'd like to map a function key to "SELECT * FROM dbo."
Yes, there is Tools-->Options-->Enviroment-->Keyboard
there are already a bunch there , you can type anything you want in the Stored Procedure column. However that will just execute, I guess you can do a PRINT 'SELECT * FROM fbo.' in your case
It's outside of the studio but I use AutoHotKey (google it). You can write little keyword macros. Even launch applications with a few keystrokes. All in an effort to reduce time on the mouse.
I would recommend that you use a free management studio tool called "SSMS Tools Pack" from Mladen Prajdic. It has a feature called SQL snippets where you can map snippets of SQL code to predefined keystrokes ("ssf" + ENTER" will do what you want using the tool).
I use it every day at different clients and its part of my SQL toolkit. Check it out here:
www.ssmstoolspack.com.
Eric
In SSMS:
Tools
Options
Keyboard
Select the desire shortcut (only 12 options, 3 of which are hard-coded and cannot be changed, which is better than none, but not by much)
Enter what you'd want run (for example, I have CTRL+0 set to "USE tempdb"
Save
These hotkeys will not be available to currently opened query windows, only windows opened after you've created them.
Note that if you make it a procedure call, such as as CTRL+1's "sp_who", hilight a block of text, and hit the hot key, the highlit text is passed in as a parameter to the procedure. Try it with CTRL+1 and see. (...and you get lots of fun and games with embedded periods which can be overridden by [bracketing it], but you'll find out about that as you go along.)
SSMSBoost add-in has this feaure:
you can define tokens and replacements for them. Example:
sel -> select * from
upd -> update # set where
symbol "#" defines, where cursor will be placed after replacement is done. You can define your own replacements.
There are certainlny much more features, for example Hitting F2 in SQL Editor will immediately script object, located at cursor. It is something like "go to definition" function in Visual Studio.
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I'm attempting to provide support for a legacy ASP/MSSQL web application - I wasn't involved in the development of the software (the company that built it no longer exists) & I'm not the admin of the server where it's hosted, I just manage the hosting for the owners of the site via a reseller account. I'm also not an ASP developer (more a PHP guy), and am not that familiar with it beyond the basics - updating DB connection strings after server migrations, etc.
The issue is that the site in question stores the content of individuals pages in an MSSQL database, and much of the content includes links. Almost all of the internal links on the site are format like "main.asp?123" (with "123" being the ID of a database row). The problem is, starting sometime in the last 8 months or so*, something caused the links in the DB content to show up as "main.aspÀ123" instead - in other words, the "?" character is being replaced by the "À" character (capital A with grave accent). Which, of course, breaks all of those links. Note that Stackoverflow won't allow me to include that character in the post title, because it seems to think that it indicates I'm posting in Spanish...?
(*unfortunately I don't know the timing beyond that, the site owners didn't know when the issue started occurring, so all I have to go by is an archive.org snapshot from last October, where it was working)
I attempted to manually change the "?" character in one of the relevant DB records to "?" (the HTML entity for the question mark), but that didn't make any difference. I also checked the character encoding of the HTML code used to display the content, but that doesn't seem to be the cause either - the same ASP files contain hard-coded links to some of the same pages (formatted exactly the same way), and those work correctly: the "?" doesn't get replaced.
I've also connected to the database directly with the MSSQL Management Studio Express application, but couldn't find any charset/character encoding options for either the database or the table.
And I've tried contacting the hosting provider, but they (M247 UK, in case anyone is curious) have been laughably unhelpful. The responses from them have been along the lines of "durrrrrr, we checked a totally different link that wasn't actually the one that you clearly described AND highlighted in a screenshot, and it works when we check the wrong link, so the problem must be resolved, right?" Suffice it to say, I wouldn't recommend them - used to be a customer of RedFox hosting, and the quality of customer has dropped off substantially since M247 bought them.
Any suggestions? If this were PHP/MySQL, I'd probably start by creating a small test script that did nothing but fetch one of the relevant records and display it's contents, to narrow down the issue - but I'm not familiar enough with ASP to do that here, at least not without a fair amount of googl'ing (and most of the info I can find is specific to ASP.net instead).
Edit: the thread suggested as a solution appears to be for character encoding issues when writing to MSSQL, not reading from it - and I've tried the solutions suggested in that thread, none make any difference.
Looks like you're converting from UNICODE to ASCII somewhere along the line...
Have a look at this to get a quick demo of what happens. In particular, pay attention to the ascii derived from inr, versus the ascii derived from unicode...
SELECT
t.n,
ascii_char = CHAR(t.n),
unicode_char = NCHAR(t.n),
unicode_to_ascii = CONVERT(varchar(10), NCHAR(t.n))
FROM (
SELECT TOP (1024)
n = ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY ao.object_id)
FROM
sys.all_objects ao
) t
WHERE 1 = 1
--AND CONVERT(varchar(10), NCHAR(t.n)) ='À'
;
I found a workaround that appears to do the trick: I was previously trying to replace the ? in the code with ? (took out the ; so that it will show the code rather than the output), which didn't work. BUT it seems to work if I use &quest instead.
One thing to note, it seemed that I was originally incorrect in thinking that the issue was only affecting content being read/displayed from the MSSQL DB. Rather, it looks like the same problem was also occurring with static content being "echo'd" by code in the ASP scripts (I'm more of a PHP guy, not sure the correct term is for ASP's equivalent to echo is). Though the links that were hardcoded as static (rather HTML being dynamically output by ASP) were unaffected. Though chancing the ? to &quest worked for those ones too (hardest part was tracking down the file I needed to edit).
On SQL queries zeppelin 0.8.1 provide table output and several visualizations of data out of the box:
And it is very useful most of the time.
But sometimes I want just select text for presentation.
Said for query SELECT version();. There table output is annoying:
What very interesting, there already implemented text output, for example for EXPLAIN:
Off course ideally for EXPLAIN query you may also expect more visualize for nods, cost and so on, but it is absolutely another question.
So, main question: How I can switch output to text form for some of my SQL queries except explain but in similar form?
Additionally, If I run some maintenance commands like VACUUM and ANALYZE I can see output in many IDE, but in zeppelin it is empty!
/*'EXPLAIN '*/ select version();
An ugly workaround can be used while JDBCInterpreter contains EXPLAIN_PREDICATE
private static final String EXPLAIN_PREDICATE = "EXPLAIN ";
String results = getResults(resultSet,
!containsIgnoreCase(sqlToExecute, EXPLAIN_PREDICATE), isComplete);
In future it's will be nice to manage output type via paragraph properties.
VACUUM and ANALYZE send messages which should be caught via Statement#getWarnings
I use UPDATE a SET GR_P = REPLACE(GR_P,'','') FROM mytable a to replace things.
But replace function is not working for below charter:
In Query analyzer it works but when I used SSIS Execute SQL task or OLEDB Source then it is giving me error:
No Connection manager is specified.
In Toad against Oracle (since that's one of your tags), I issued this (pressing ALT-12 to get the female symbol) and got 191 as a result. note selecting it back using CHR(191) shows an upside-down question mark though.
select ascii('♀') from dual;
Given that, this worked but it's Oracle syntax, your mileage may vary.
UPDATE mytable SET GR_P = REPLACE(GR_P, CHR(191));
Note if it does not work, that symbol could be for another control character. You may need to use a regular expression to eliminate all characters not in a-zA-Z0-9, etc. I suspect you'll need to update your tags to get a more accurate answer.
Maybe this info will help anyway. Please post back what you find out.
My odbc connection string for connecting to DB2i looks like this:
Driver={Client Access ODBC Driver (32-bit)};system=xx.xx.xx.xx;dbq=LIB1 LIB2 LIB3 LIB4 LIB5 LIB6 LIB7 LIB8;languageid=ENU;qrystglmt=-1;cmt=0;signon=1
The above connection string specifies multiple libraries/schemas for use. But when I try to access a file/table from a library other than the first one (like from LIB2...LIB8) I get a exception saying "FILE xx not found in LIB1"
Why does not it automatically search for the file/table in other specified libraries, it searches for the file in the first library only?
I need a workaround for this situation.
Use "system naming" mode, by adding naming=1 to your connection string.
In your library list, place a comma before the first library.
Driver={Client Access ODBC Driver (32-bit)};system=systemname;naming=1;
dbq=,LIB1,LIB2,LIB3,LIB4,LIB5,LIB6,LIB7,LIB8;languageid=ENU;cmt=0;signon=1
This works as documented in the manual:
The library list is used for resolving unqualified stored procedure calls and finding libraries in catalog API calls. ...
Note:
The first library listed in this property will also be the default library, which is used to resolve unqualified names in SQL statements.
As stated above, Schema/library list is used to resolve functions/procedure names, not tables.
Let assume you need to read data from lib1.tab1 and lib2.tab2;
Here my personal workarounds (from easy to complex):
a) ask the db admin to have - for each table you need to use - the corresponding schema name, then do "select * from lib1.tab1 join lib2.tab2 on [...]" ;-)
b) ask the db admin to create on schema "MyAlias" several alias (create alias) for each table you want to use. Then do "set current schema=MyAlias" followed by all the SQL statement you need e.g. "select * from tab1 join tab2". Since you’re querying myalias.tab1 which is an alias pointing to table lib1.tab1 it should work.
c) Complex: create your own SQL function that returns the corresponding schema_name for a table (e.g. myfunct('TAB1'). This could be done reading system view “qsys2.systables” where table_name=’TAB1’ and returning TABLE_SCHEMA column, which is a varchar(128). Once you got it, build up a dynamically prepared using the variable you just obtained. E.g.
"set mylib = myfunct('TAB1').
"set mystmt = 'select * from '||table_schema || ‘.tab1’ …”
Prepare mystmt and then execute mystmt.
I did something similar in VBA using ado ibmdrda and it worked.
hope this helps.
f.
In Management Studio, you can right click on the tables group to create a filter for the table list. Has anyone figured out a way to include multiple tables in the filter? For example, I'd like all tables with "br_*" and "tbl_*" to show up.
Anyone know how to do this?
No, you can't do this. When we first got Management Studio I've tried every possible combination of everything you could think of: _, %, *, ", ', &&, &, and, or, |, ||, etc...
You might be able to roll your own addon to SMSS that would allow you to do what you are looking for:
The Black Art of Writing a SQL Server Management Studio 2005 Add-In
Extend Functionality in SQL Server 2005 Management Studio with Add-ins
The first one is specifically for searching and displaying all schema objects with a given name so you might be able to expand upon that for what you are looking for.
I'm using SQL Server Management Studio v17.1 and it has a SQL injection bug in it's filter construction, so you can actually escape default
tbl.name like '%xxx%'
and write your own query (with some limitations). For example to filter tables that are ending with "_arch", "_hist", "_purge" I used following filter value
_arch') and RIGHT(tbl.name, 5) != N'purge' and RIGHT(tbl.name, 4) != N'hist' and not(tbl.name like N'bbb
You can use SQL Server Profiler to see the constructed query and adjust it as needed.
Not sure if this same bug is available in previous SQL Management Studio versions or when it will be fixed, but for now I'm happy with the result.
I've used Toad for SQL Server (freeware version) which has very nice filtering options.
At first it looks like it could use a CONTAINS query (e.g. "br_*" OR "tbl_*"), but it doesn't seem to. It seems to only support a value that is then passed into a LIKE clause (e.g. 'app' becomes '%app%').
The "sql injection" method still works (v17.5), but with a twist:
zzzz' or charindex('pattern1', name) > 0 or charindex('pattern2', name) > 0 or name like 'zzzz
(I used the 'zzzz' to bypass the '%')
It doesn´t work if '_' or '%' is used in the patterns (or anywhere on your code), because it will automatically be replaced by '[_]' or '[%]' before evaluation.
As others have said, you cannot do this in SQL Server Management Studio (up and including 2014).
The following query will give you a filtered list of tables, if this is all you need:
SELECT
CONCAT(TABLE_SCHEMA, '.', TABLE_NAME) AS TABLE_SCHEMA_AND_NAME,
TABLE_SCHEMA,
TABLE_NAME
FROM
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES
WHERE
TABLE_SCHEMA IN ('X', 'Y', 'Z') -- schemas go here
ORDER BY
TABLE_SCHEMA,
TABLE_NAME;
The SQL injection method still works (somewhat) as of SSMS 2017 v17.8.1, although it puts brackets around the % symbol, so it will interpret those literally.
If you're using the Name->Contains filter, Profiler shows:
... AND dtb.name LIKE N'%MyDatabase1%')
So, in the Name->Contains field: MyDatabase1') OR (dtb.name LIKE 'MyDatabase2 should do it for simple cases.
This is old I know, but it's good to know that it can works if you input just entering the "filter" text. Skip * or % or any other standard search characters, just enter br_ or tbl_ or whatever you want to filter on.
Your in luck, I just conquered that feat, although my success is small because you can filter by schema which would allow you see more than 1 table but you have to type the filter text in each time you want to change it.