[NFBCS] SQL Server Management Studio and large amounts of data

[Tracy Carcione]

Hi Michael.

The command on my version of SQL Server Studio is control-shift-f.  It can also be found by hitting alt to brin up menus, right-arrow to Query, down-arrow to Results, enter to bring up the submenu, then arrow up and down to find the option wanted.

I use results to file for testing, then change it back to grid for the real run so I can save to Excel.  The output from the file option is a .txt file.

Tracy

 

 

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Thank you, Tracy. How do you set SQL output to a file, in the method you are referring to?

 

Also, being new to this mailing list, does the NFB in Computer Science ever host virtual events over Zoom? If so, when is the next one? What topics are discussed?

 

Thank you,

Mike

 

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I usually know roughly what table I’m after, but I have paged down through long lists before, looking at what’s there.

 

Also, SQL has a name sysobjects, and another syscolumns, and you can use those to write a query to see what’s around.  Don’t select all columns from all tables, though!

 

I found this query to get some column names from a particular table, which perhaps you can modify:

 

 

Select a.name as table_name

 

,b.name as col_name

 

>From sysobjects a,

 

Syscolumns b

 

Where a.ID = b.ID

 

And b.name like ‘%depar%’

 

 

I like to set SQL output to a file when I’m testing or looking at something.  For me, it’s much easier to look at a file than to try to look at the grid in SQL.

 

HTH.

 

Tracy

 

 

 

 

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Subject: [NFBCS] SQL Server Management Studio and large amounts of data

 

 

Hi,

 

 

If you are using a screen reader, how do you most efficiently navigate large amounts of data? Suppose your database has over six hundred tables. One cannot use first letter navigation easily, since many table names begin with DBO. I might be browsing through the long list of tables, to get an idea of what the table name is, to write a query.

 

 

Thank you,

 

Mike

 

 

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