T-SQL Tuesday #135 – Tools of the Trade

It’s another T-SQL Tuesday! Thanks to Mikey Bronowski (t|b) for hosting. Our challenge:

I would like you to write about the tools that help you at work, those that helped you the most or were the most effective. 

Whenever there is talk of switching tools, I always here someone say, “once we are on <insert tool>, we won’t have X problem anymore.” This statement is one of my pet peeves. It’s not the tool that solves the problem. It’s making sure we implement and use the tools properly to help solve the problem. The tools themselves are just that – tools. If we don’t understand the problem, then we’re just shifting the problem to another tool.

There area so many tools that get implemented at work these days. While I use them to varying degrees, I am not always using these tools on a daily basis. And in many cases, I’m not the person responsible for setting them up. I’m a SQL Developer so my daily toolset is much smaller.

Honestly, the vast majority of my time is split between Management Studio (SSMS) or Azure Data Studio. I’m pretty simple\straightforward this way. I started playing a lot more with Azure Data Studio over the past year, but I find I’m not able to make the switch to using it full time. It really depends on the task that I need to do.

So what tasks do I do often and which tool do I use?

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