SQL Server 2008 Management Studio has an option to Edit the Top 200 Rows. Just Right Click on the Table and you get the following options:
If your table contains many columns, opening 200 rows to edit them would be slow to execute. However not many know that this number can changed using a simple setting.
So let us say we want to edit only the TOP 5 Rows. A quick way to do this would be to go to Tools > Options > SQL Server Object Explorer and change the ‘Value of Edit Top <n> Rows Command to 5
Now when you Right Click the Table, you see the option to Edit only TOP 5 rows
A very simple tip, but known to many!
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1 comment:
Thanks for this tip. I never knew the option could be changed.
Is there any way I can use this option to return TOP rows based on a condition. For eg: Return TOP 5 Rows where x='some value'?
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