@PamelaMooney

Some of My Favorite Tips and Tricks

Anytime you can use the keyboard instead of the mouse, you are likely to be faster and more efficient.  When it comes to SSMS, these are a few of my favorite things…

  • Ctrl + K + O to switch connections in a window
  • Shift + Alt + Click to block select and move things around easily
Before
…and five tabs later!
  • Select a block of code, then Ctrl + K + C to comment it out (Ctrl + K + U to uncomment)
  • Ctrl + O to quickly open a file
  • Ctrl + M to turn on execution plans (Ctrl + L for estimated execution plans)
  • Alt + F4 to close SSMS
  • F7 for Object Explorer Details
  • Alt + F + A for Save File As
  • Ctrl + F4 to close current query window (Ctrl + N to open a new one)
  • Ctrl + A + K + Y to quickly and neatly format code (if using SQL Prompt)
  • Ctrl + R to show/hide query results
  • Ctrl + G to go to a particular line of code

If you have any to share, please feel free to put them in the comments!

One comment

  1. Ctrl-Shift-U and Ctrl-Shift-L – converts a text selection to all upper or all lower case (guess which does which!)

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