In a recent tip, I outlined various hardening techniques for those who need to stay on Microsoft SQL Server 2000, rather than upgrade to the securityenhanced SQL. Should I remove Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition ENU by Microsoft Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition SQL Server Compact Edition is designed for. Should I remove Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Backward compatibility by Microsoft The Feature Pack is a collection of standalone install packages that provide additional. Info. ADO. NET Provider for Microsoft SQL Server 7200020052008 databases. Exists in namespace System. Data. SqlClient and assembly System. Data. Used the FreeTDS and. SQL Server Express 2. Finally Installed. Back in February I blogged about my less than successful attempt at installing Microsoft SQL Server Express 2. The comments from that post confirmed that I was not alone in these issues. A helpful Microsoft employee has also posted some comments, with links to specific versions of. NET you need to install. They released a community beta release in June, so I decided to give it another go. After a few hours of tinkering, I did get it installed, and Im a bit unimpressed with SQL Server Express Manager more on that below. So heres what I did this time to get it working Uninstall any. NET frameworks you have installed. Install. NET Framework version 2. Reboot Even though you arent prompted to reboot, you want to do it now, otherwise the SQL Server Express 2. They are nice enough to get you half way through the installation before telling you this. Install SQL Server 2. Express June CTP, build 9. Install The Microsoft SQL Server Express Manager June CTPThough it took me way longer than it should have to install, there were some good points to all this. Microsoft has disabled a lot of features by default, including network connections. You can use the surface area tool to enable these features. SQL Server 2. 00. Express also comes with the SQL Server Configuration Manager pretty much all this allows you to configure are network security settings. Connecting to SQL Express Manager. You would think that connecting to your SQL Server Express Manager wouldnt be too hard, simply enter your hostname, and login. So I put localhost in the Server Instance box. When you try that however you get a connection timeout. Cannot connect to localhost Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding. Microsoft SQL Server. Okay, so I probably have some ports locked down, on windows firewall, or in SQL Server express. After disabling pretty much all network security, and the windows xp firewall, I was still getting the error. Somehow I realized that you need to enter it as follows computernameSQLSERVERINSTANCENAME your SQL Server Express instance name will probably be SQLEXPRESS. The SQL Server Express Manager. So now that Im finally in the SQL Server Express Manager, I am expecting it to be somewhat like SQL Server Enterprise Manager. As I found out, it is very limited. You cant really manage your server with it at all. It provides a read only view of your SQL Express Server, and allows you to run SQL statements. In other words, you can see the tables you have, but you cant edit them, there isnt even a way to easily generate a SELECT from table. Name by right clicking. You can also see Views, Stored Procedures, and users, but you cant manage any of these objects unless you execute system stored procedures manually. The only option in the right click menu is Refresh. Another problem is that the query editor seams to always default to the master database, even if your focus is on an other one. Needless to say I was a bit disappointed with SQL Express Manager. Unless Im missing something, it seams to be pretty useless. Microsoft is clearly leaving it up to third parties to provide a decent manager for SQL Server Express. The one thing that sets SQL Server apart from other databases is the ease of administration, this however does not appear to be a feature in the Express version. I guess I cant forget that SQL Server Express is free. The database engine. The actual database engine looks to be interesting, and a big step up from MSDE, but I havent yet had time play with it. Ill post more on that when I get a chance. Conclusion. Microsoft is clearly positioning SQL Server 2. Express to compete with open source databases. But I think they have gone too far. The installation will take you a long time if you dont have the proper dependencies installed, and it is lacking in GUI management tools. SQL Server Management Studio Changelog SSMSThis article provides details about updates, improvements, and bug fixes for the current and previous versions of SSMS. Download previous SSMS versions below. Generally available Build number 1. Enhancements. New Import Flat File wizard added to streamline the import experience of CSV files with an intelligent framework, requiring minimal user intervention or specialized domain knowledge. For details, see Import Flat File to SQL Wizard. Added XEvent Profiler node to Object Explorer. For details, see Use the SSMS XEvent Profiler. Updated waits filtering and categorization in Performance Dashboard historical waits report. Added the syntax check of the Predict function. Added the syntax check of the External Library Management queries. Added SMO support for External Library Management. Added Start Power. Shell support to Registered Servers window requires a new SQL Power. Shell module. Always On added read only routing support for availability groups. Added an option to send tracing details to the Output Window for Active Directory Universal with MFA support logins off by default needs to be turned on in user settings under Tools Options Azure Services Azure Cloud ADAL Output Window Trace Level. Query Store Query Store UI will be accessible even when QDS is OFF as long as QDS have recorded any data. Query Store UI now exposes waits categorization in all the existing reports. This will let customers unlock the scenarios of Top Waiting Queries and many more. Made inclusion of the scripting parameters headers optional off by default can be enabled in user settings under Tools Options SQL Server Object Explorer Scripting Include scripting parameters header Connect item 3. Removed RC branding. Bug Fixes. General SSMSXEvent Fixed issue where SSMS opens only part of the events in. Improved Watch Live Data experience when default database is not master Connect item 1. Always On Fixed issue where Restore log backups may fail with error The log in this backup set terminates at LSN x, which is too early to apply to the database. Job Activity Monitor fixed inconsistent icons Connect item 3. Query Store Fixed Issue where user cannot choose custom date range for Query Store reports. Linked to below connect items. Fixed issue where connection dialog doesnt clear the most recently used database when saved info has named database and user selects. Object Scripting Fixed an issue where Generate database script not working and throwing an error when the user has a paused DW database on the server, but selected another non DW database and tried t script it. Fixed issue where the header for scripted Stored Procedures was not matching the script settings, resulting in a misleading script. Connect item 3. 13. Re enabled the Script button when targeting SQL Azure objects. Fixed issue where SSMS was not allowing scripting for Alter or Execute on some objects UDF, View, SP, Trigger when connected to an Azure SQL database. Connect item 3. 13. Query editor Improved intellisense when targeting Azure SQL databases. Fixed an issue where queries failed due to an expired authentication token Universal Authentication. Improved intellisense when working against Azure SQL databases particularly, when connecting to Azure SQL Database, the latest T SQL grammar 1. Fixed issue where open a query window with a connection to a non Data. Warehouse database on a server would cause all subsequent query windows for that server to Data. Warehouse databases to throw various errors about unsupported typesoptions. Always On Added seeding mode column to Always On dashboard and AG properties page. Fixed issue where it was not possible to create a Linux AG when primary is on Windows Connect item 3. Fixed several Out of Memory issues in SSMS when running queries. Connect item 2. 84. Connect item 3. 12. Profiler Fixed issue were Profiler was not working when targeting SQL 2. Fixed issue where Profiler was not honoring the trust server certificate connection option. Activity Monitor fixed an issue where Activity Monitor does not work when pointed at SQL Server running on Linux. Fixed an issue with the SMO Transfer class where it wouldnt transfer External Data Source or External File Format objects, objects of those types should now correctly be included in the transfer. Registered Servers Enabled multiserver query for UA servers it will try to use the same token for every UA server in the group. AD Universal Authentication Fixed issue where Azure AD authentication was not supported. Fixed issue where tableview designer was not working. Fixed issue where Select Top 1. Edit Top 2. 00 rows were not working. Database restore fixed an issue where restore omits the last folder in the path when moving files to an alternate location. Compress wizard Showplan Fixed issue where PDW operators were not recognized. Server Properties Fixed issue with not being able to modify server processor affinity. Analysis Services ASFixed a number of issues with Deployment Wizard to support tabular 1. Power Query data sources. Deployment Wizard can now deploy to AS Azure when running from Command line. When using Windows Auth in AS Azure the user will now see the name of the user account in Object Explorer correctly. Known issues in this 1. General SSMSThe following SSMS functionality is not supported for Azure AD auth using UA with MFA Database Engine Tuning Advisor is not supported for Azure AD auth there is a known issue where the error message presented to the user is a bit cryptic Could not load file or assembly Microsoft. Identity. Model. Clients. Active. Directory, instead of the expected Database Engine Tuning Advisor does not support Microsoft Azure SQL Database. DTAClient. Trying to analyze a query in DTA results in an error Object must implement IConvertible. Regressed Queries is missing from the Query Store list of reports in Object Explorer. Workaround Right click the Query Store node and select View Regressed Queries. Integration Services ISThe executionpath in catalog. eventmessagea is not correct for package executions in Scale Out. The executionpath starts with Package instead of the object name of the package executable. When viewing the overview report of package executions in SSMS, the link of Execution Path in Execution Overview cannot work. The workaround is to click View Messages on overview report to check all event messages. Previous SSMS releases. Download previous SSMS versions by clicking the title links in the following sections. Generally available Build number 1. Enhancements. Multi Factor Authentication MFAMultiple user Azure AD authentication for Universal authentication with Multi factor authentication UA with MFAA new user credential input field was added for Universal Authentication with MFA to support multi user authentication. The connection dialog box now supports the following 5 authentication methods Windows Authentication. SQL Server Authentication. Active Directory Universal with MFA support. Active Directory Password. Active Directory Integrated. Database exportimport for Dac. Fx wizard using Universal Authentication with MFA. For API support, see IUniversal. Auth. Provider Interface. ADAL managed library used by Azure AD Universal Authentication with MFA was upgraded to 3. In addition a new CLI interface was delivered supporting Azure AD admin setting for SQL Database and SQL Data Warehouse. For more information on the Active Directory authentication methods, see Universal Authentication with SQL Database and SQL Data Warehouse SSMS support for MFA and Configure Azure SQL Database multi factor authentication for SQL Server Management Studio. Output window has entries for queries run during expansion of Object Explorer nodes. Enabled View designer Azure SQL Databases. The default scripting options for scripting objects from Object Explorer in SSMS have changed Previously, the default on a new install was to have the generated script target the latest version of SQL Server currently SQL Server 2. In SSMS 1. 7. 2 a new option has been added Match Script Settings to Source. When set to True, the generated script targets the same version, engine type, and engine edition as the server the object being scripted is from.
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