SQL Server Management Studio has so much capability, yet most people I meet don’t seem to have read the manual to discover it. So I thought I might post a few of features I find invaluable. This works for SQL 2005, SQL2008, SQL2008 R2 & Visual Studio. Summary: Tip 1: It is possible to “ALT + Select” to highlight a block of text to work on. Tip 2: If you press ALT & stay in the same column (vertical line), it doesn’t select a block but instead selects an entire line, not just the partial top & partial bottom lines. The following is a quick example of what I mean plus a few other uses you may not have thought of. Example: Tip 1: It is possible to “ALT + Select” to highlight a block of text to work on. eg: Hold the ALT key, Left Click & move your Mouse produces the Blue “Selected” region in picture below. You must press ALT prior to moving the mouse. If I hit DELETE, then I remove just those characters so they all line up nex...
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