When did copy paste stop working?

[dpodblood]

I work in an office where I am constantly copy pasting from my local PC into virtual machines, and the other way around. I find sometimes I have to right click > copy or press ctrl-c several times before it actually makes its way into the clipboard. Sometimes I need to copy a large set of results from SQL management studio into a spreadsheet; sometimes when I paste I will get the full results while other times it will only take the first few hundred rows.

Anyone else experience this? Does anyone know a way to clear the windows clipboard to make sure there is "room" for large result sets?

 

[Homerboy]

I ahve to say I never ever have had this problem... and I do A LOT of ctrl-c/v'ing

You sure your KB just doesn't stink?

 

[dpodblood]

Yep. I'm not the only one that's experienced it in my office either. Maybe it's a vmware thing.

 

[stlcardinals]

IIRC, the clipboard size is basically the amount of free memory you have.

You could always use the Import and Export Data tool for SQL to export the queries straight to an Excel file.