Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 01/24/07 13:48

(chudson007@hotmail.com) writes:
> 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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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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