I closed SSMS 2014. The splash screen flashed for a second – the classic blue SQL Server logo. I saved my session (Session > Save as .sql) into a folder called Phoenix_Fixes . No Git. No CI/CD. Just a network drive and a prayer.
Ten minutes later, it suggested three missing indexes and one statistic update. I scripted them out – because in 2014, you never let the advisor run automatically on production. You read every CREATE INDEX like a surgeon reading a consent form. sql studio 2014
I wrote a query to unpivot a decade of quarterly sales: I closed SSMS 2014