I use a work laptop, hate that I have to carry it around but it does make it easier to move around and i find it, it does come in...

Thanks for all the responeseses guys.

For now I am going to give Management studio another go, do you guys have any sites with some guides on all the different configurations...

I have been playing with other editors and mostlikely i will stick with Notepad++ for all my text editing needs, and stick with Management studio, since i doubt my company...

I have read that shrinking the database is not the best practice.

Also backing up the tran log with truncate_only is on its way out and is not really good to...

These commdans are run once a week:

sqlcmd -E -d "master" -Q "DBCC CHECKDB ('db_name') WITH ALL_ERRORMSGS" -o "output directory\check_db.txt"

sqlcmd -E -d "master" -Q "DBCC SHRINKDATABASE ('db_name', 10)" -o "output directory\shrink_db.txt"

sqlcmd...

Mainly formatting and syntax highlighting are key.

Simply having it open does not really do much to my system, but after a while my system does start to slowdown, and every...

I agree, I have been using the management studio, and the main reason why i asked about some of the other editors out there is that I would like to...

I use it for now, but i want something that opens faster and has some of the nice text editor features.

Basically I want the best of both worlds.

I know this...