Is 'Select Top 1000 Rows' functionality still available in SSMS 17.4?

  • My question is about a specific functionality in Microsoft's release of SQL Server client: SSMS 17.4? Is it still possible to R-click on a table and choose "Select Top 1000 Rows'?

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  • polkadot - Wednesday, January 24, 2018 2:08 PM

    My question is about a specific functionality in Microsoft's release of SQL Server client: SSMS 17.4? Is it still possible to R-click on a table and choose "Select Top 1000 Rows'?

    Yes.

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  • It is still a working functionality ie. it returns top 1000 rows?  Sorry, I ask.   I am facing an tech support group that will not fix this broken functionality in SQL Server 2017 SSMS on a virtual computer that I am unable to troubleshoot based on claim that SSMS 17.4 doesn't even include this functionality 'so it must be a bug' and is a bad practice.  

    If the SSMS install were on my own laptop I would repair .net framework as a start (based on forums I have read for this issue).

    I use top 1000 a lot in dev environment.

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  • polkadot - Wednesday, January 24, 2018 2:16 PM

    It is still a working functionality ie. it returns top 1000 rows?  Sorry, I ask.   I am facing an tech support group that will not fix this broken functionality in SQL Server 2017 SSMS on a virtual computer that I am unable to troubleshoot based on claim that SSMS 17.4 doesn't even include this functionality 'so it must be a bug' and is a bad practice.  

    If the SSMS install were on my own laptop I would repair .net framework as a start (based on forums I have read for this issue).

    I use top 1000 a lot in dev environment.

    Sure. It opens a new tab in SSMS, pastes the SELECT TOP (1000) ... query in and executes it, returning the correct number of rows. Appears to be working as expected.

    The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
    - Martin Rees
    The absence of consumable DDL, sample data and desired results is, however, evidence of the absence of my response
    - Phil Parkin

  • Just an FYI, I tried it and it works for me as well.

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