Showing posts with label pros. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pros. Show all posts

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Difference between Enterprise Manager and Query Analyzer

Hi All,

What are the pros and cons between using Enterprise Manager or Query
Analyzer for my queries.

Currently I use Enterprise Manager because I prefer the interface and
only use Query Analayzer when queries time out in Enterprise Manager,
but I'm sure there must be more to it.

Regards,
Ciarn(chudson007@.hotmail.com) writes:

Quote:

Originally Posted by

What are the pros and cons between using Enterprise Manager or Query
Analyzer for my queries.
>
Currently I use Enterprise Manager because I prefer the interface and
only use Query Analayzer when queries time out in Enterprise Manager,
but I'm sure there must be more to it.


Query Analyzer is a tool that I use daily, and it's always open on my
desktop. Enterprise Manager I only start if I need to work with Agent jobs.

As far as I know EM does not even have a query window. Probably you are
using the Query Designer, which may look nice, but which may add junk to
your queries. And there is a whole lot of things you do in it. Only in a
query window in Query Analyzer (or a command-line tool like OSQL), you can
use all T-SQL statements.

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