How to create a new SQL Server 2. There are many reasons that a Windows administrator would want to create a new SQL server instance. Organization and segregation are two of the main reasons. Andrew Jacops is a system/network administrator with over ten years experience managing Windows environments and the network infrastructures they run on. Latest posts by Andrew Jacops (see all)As an analogy, think of your SQL server as a folder.
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Inside this folder we have many sub directories that allow us to organize and segregate our stored files. A lot of the time, the data in these sub folders will have the same or similar names.
Or we just want to put pictures of cats under the . Creating a new SQL server instance is like creating a new subfolder. We can create a new instance that is just for testing applications and have another for production. We can also have two programs that have the same database name using the separate instances. Creating separate SQL instances also cuts down on hardware and licensing costs.
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- Similar to ENUM, you can use the numeric value. Example (Testing SET Data Type): Read 'set. Date and time (as well as currency) are of particular interest for database applications.
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Administrators can use the same license for a single server. This article explains how to install a separate SQL server instance side by side on the same server. The first thing we need to do is acquire the installation media. When the auto run screen comes up, we want to select the Installation option to start the installation wizard.
The next screen asks us what type of installation we want to perform. Although it may not be the most obvious choice, select New SQL Server stand- alone installation or add features to an existing installation. The installation will now run the Setup Support Rules wizard to ensure that everything is good to go. Upon completion it will report what issues, if any, were found and give a detailed report if you wish to view it.
Click OK when you are finished looking the information over. The installation will then search for the latest updates. You may choose to skip this scan and check for updates later. Click Next >. We are going to create a new SQL server instance, so select the Perform a new installation of SQL Server 2. Next >. Enter your license key.
Unless your organization requires something different for licensing compliance, his should be the same key as the license key for the original instance of SQL server installed. The next box in the installation wizard is the EULA. Read and if you accept the license terms click Next >. Here you also have the opportunity to send Microsoft usage data for analysis. The next option depends on your environment and what you require from this SQL server installation. For the scope of this article, All Features With Defaults is selected.
Click Next >. The Feature Selection page lists all of the components that are going to be installed. Because we selected All Features With Defaults absolutely all of the options will be selected. Again, make sure that you select the options you require from creating this SQL server instance. Extra options will just slow the server down by requiring more resources. Click Next >. The wizard runs through another rule check. This time it is for the Installation Rules. This screen, like the previous checks, will give information about the check and allow you to see more details if there is something that needs to be fixed.
Click Next >. Finally we are that the part of the installation wizard where we can name our new SQL server instance. This should be something informative and easy to recognize. Remember, you will be using this name to access the instance you create. For the purpose of this article, I will create the SQL server instance named New.
Click Next >. Disk space requirements are then checked against what the installation requires. This is not the size of your database. You will need to allow sufficient space for your databases to grow comfortably. Click Next >. The Server Configuration dialogue box will allow you to configure what services of this instance you would like to automatically start.
Change all of the services allowed to Automatic. Click Next >. For the database engine configuration, I have chosen to use Windows Authentication Mode. You may choose to use mixed mode if you wish. Click the Add Current User button to add the user you are logged in as, or the Add. Once complete, click Next >. The next window is for the analysis services configuration. Again, click the Add Current User or the Add.
This service can be configured at a later time. For the distributed replay controller we will again click the Add Current User or the Add. In this case I chose to use New.
Select an appropriate working directory and result directory by clicking the ellipses (. These should be directories that will easily be recalled. Click Next > when complete. On the Error Reporting dialogue box, select whether you would like to send Windows and SQL server error reports to Microsoft.
I left the box unchecked as this is a test server. Click Next >. Finally, we are at the last rule checking window.
This part of the installation wizard will ensure all of the previous information entered will allow the installation for the new SQL server instance to complete successfully. Click Next > after reviewing any required information. Our Ready to Install dialogue box gives all of the information we used to create the SQL server instance. At this point, review the information ensuring that it is correct and click Install.
The install will take some time depending on the resources available to the box. Although it is not required, an after- hours or low traffic period would be preferred to lessen the impact on the production environment.
After some time, we are presented with the final window for the installation wizard. This box will give the status of every step in the process. Click the Close button after reviewing any pertinent information to end the SQL server instance installation wizard. Accessing the new SQL Server Instance ^Accessing the newly created SQL server instance is as easy as adding the instance name after the server name. For example, our installation is localhost\New. Again, for this article we would use localhost\New.
From here we can manage it just as we would manage any other single SQL server. Summary ^Whether for licensing, organization, or segregation purposes, creating a SQL server instance is by far the cheapest and easiest way to implement a SQL server into your environment. Maintaining a clean landscape is much easier using separate instances.
SSMSBoost add- in - productivity tools for SSMS 2. Sql Server Management Studio)SSMSBoost add- in adds missing features and improves your productivity when working with Microsoft SQL Server in SQL Server Management Studio. The main goal of the project is to speed- up daily tasks of SQL DBA and T- SQL developers and to help you avoid destructive DML executions in production environments. Currently both versions have the same set of features. Over 2. 5 0. 00 registered users in more than 6. SSMSBoost. Just to mention some of them: Read below the overview of all features currently present in the add- in. If you select part of the identifier - SSMSBoost will perform no search and will.
If you want to generate ALTER scripts you can use . Use Extras- > Settings- >. SSMSBoost allows to locate object in seconds!
If you select part of the identifier - SSMSBoost will perform. So that you can easily. SQL Editor window.
Additionally to preferred connections it can also show databases from current server (Configurable in Settings). This function is also brought to you by SSMSBoost add- in. This feature allows you to find queries that you have run some time ago. This is done to protect your privacy. You decide. if you want to have your work logged or not. One of cases when this feature helps can look like. Have a look at it please- Thanks, Dev.
Jack, that is perfect. Just what I wanted to have ! Just forgot: would you please provide the same data split by months ? Use Settings to enable it and make some minor set up. The feature is disk- size optimized. No data will be written if there were no changes since last snapshot. We have also added the possibility to perform search for previous versions of current document using specialized Editor Contents History search form.
The major advantage. SSMSBoost remembers document. If documents are new and were not saved (Query. SQL Editor Contents History feature. All documents will be re- opened and re- connected as nothing has happened.
You will have to enable it in manually if you want to use it. This feature is for you: Define connections to different servers/databases in SSMSBoost settings. These connections will be also shown in Quick Connection Switch combobox on SSMSBoost toolbar. Define Server Aliases: If Server names you are working with are too long and have no meaning like customerserver. DEVELOPMENTcustomerserver. PRODUCTIONAssign custom color for each connection that will be used in SQLEditor window footer.
It will help you for example to distinguish between development. If you define color for preferred connection, where no database is specified, this color will be applied whenever any.
Use 'Important DB Alert' to protect your live environments: as far as you change connection to database that has this option turned on. Tooltip will appear in colors defined by you and showing text that you have pre- defined. You can use following replacement patterns. Below you can see how does alert look like: This feature can protect you from occasional data modifications in live environments and can actually save you time or even your job ! Later - to go Settings- > Preferred connections and fill- in remaining properties, if you need. Auto replacements allows you to write frequently used SQL commands more quickly. SSMSBoost detects these parameters and automatically shows Parameters replacement dialog, saving you additional clicks/keystrokes.
Following parameters can be used in Autoreplacements: . These parameters will be replaced with actual information after Autoreplacement has been triggered. For example you can create an Autoreplacement to place a Username/Timestamp comment into source code.
By right- clicking the cell with required value and selecting . No matter than SSMS truncates long data from VARBINARY/VARCHAR fields when outputing. Results. Grid: SSMSBoost works with internal storage of SSMS and extracts complete cell value. Below you can see how a picture from . You define Visualizer name, file extension for saving data and also an application. If you leave Application path empty SSMSBoost will perform .
Then associate in Windows . Picture viewer will analyse contents of . This trick might also work with other picture viewers or other programs. Results Grid Scripter allows to script data using flexible scripting templates to clipboard or to disk. It is some kind of table data exported as script. Datatypes are preserved. XML - results are saved as pure XML document.
HTML table - results are saved as HTML Table. It is reasonable to try each provided template at least once to understand it's purpose better. You can choose between .
Truncated. string will be also copied to clipboard, if you use native copy command. Script source code of found objects, locate them in object explorer, copy identifier to current cursor position in sql editor. If you have several instances open and try to switch between them using Alt- Tab or task- bar, you will not be able to.
SSMSBoost add- in allows to re- define the caption of the window, so that you will be able to see current document name and connection information. You can also define. Parameters can be used within main pattern as well as in sub- patterns . Pictures below show how caption of SSMS looks like and how windows appear in Aero Peek. Now you can use Ctrl+Shift- Up. Arrow / Ctrl+Shift- Down. Arrow to do it quickly and effectively.
Generally - it is something like . The best example are 2 macros that we have already created for you: Execute to Grid .
You can use all of them to create own macros. In SSMS 2. 01. 2 Microsoft has finally added native shortcut editor, but you can still use both of them. For SSMSBoost operations we provide you all internal scripting options structure available in SSMS. Finally - we all want to work more effectively with SQL Server using SSMS environment. SSMSBoost plug- in supports SQL Server Management Studio Versions for SQL Server 2.
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