Comments on: SQL SERVER – 2008 – IntelliSense Does Not Work – Enable IntelliSense

By: Terence

Terence — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:58:39 +0000

ive spent days installing hotfixes, uninstalling, reinstalling.. im tired.. Im going to bed and play with my iPad.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:29:22 +0000

hey,
I follow all the given option here, but still i’m fail to activate Intellisense in SQL Management Studio (i’m using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 10.50 SP1). Please Try to solve this problem :( :(

By: Vikas Kumar Gupta

Vikas Kumar Gupta — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:16:18 +0000

I have installed first Visual Studio 2010 and then Sql Server 2008 R2 Edition, but got this SQL Server Setup failure error.

TITLE: SQL Server Setup failure.
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SQL Server Setup has encountered the following error:

Unable to generate a temporary class (result=1).
error CS0009: Metadata file ‘c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\mscorlib.dll’ could not be opened — ‘An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format. ‘

Error code 0x84B10001.

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BUTTONS:

OK
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After googling, I found that I installed Microsoft product in wrong order, the correct order should be first installed SQL Server 2008 R2 and then Visual Studio 2010, so I uninstalled the Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Edition , and then try to install SQL Server 2008 R2, but I got this error instantly. Please try to solve this problem.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:25:35 +0000

I found on my machine and a coworker’s that if you install VS 2010 SP1 it will break intellisense for SQL server 2008 R2. In my case we did not have SP1 installed for SSMS at the time. We installed SP1 on SSMS and intellisense began working again.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:12:36 +0000

I add a tab after typing the word SELECT to make my queries easier to read. Well…using SQL Server 2008 R2 when you type SELECT and hit tab it replaces the word “SELECT” with “@@CONNECTIONS”. That’s just what you want. Maybe with the next release they could replace the word “WHERE” with “@@ANNOYING”

/rant

By: Sachin

Sachin — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 06:34:58 +0000

I tried it all, But still it is not working with SQL Server R2

By: Vijay

Vijay — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 18:28:04 +0000

Nice Article…
I was using sql server 2008 but accessing sqlserver2005 instance.
After getting connect to sqlserver2008 via connect window=>server=>browse=>select the right instance=>OK=>Connect
After getting connected, intellisence start working.

thanks a lot.
Vijay

By: mahesh

mahesh — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:15:26 +0000

i follow the all step are given but not solve the problem

By: mahesh

mahesh — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:10:14 +0000

sir ,
i have problem while accessing the intellisense i used the mssql 2008 R2
sql express 9.0 sp2 on window operating .

By: Syd

Syd — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:31:59 +0000

Works for me too. Good job! Up until now I was trying out with the previous versions of SQL.

By: Arun

Arun — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 03:32:12 +0000

Thanks, this was causing a problem for me.

By: sirish

sirish — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 08:58:40 +0000

Thankx Pinal it works like a magic!

By: cihan

cihan — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:21:26 +0000

there’re lots of command above,i didnt read them all,maybe you have found your answer.
i faced with this problem today.why intellisence doesnt work?

i found a solution and the reason for the problem is insalling VS SP1.when you install it,sql server 08 rtm intellisence stop working.

to fix it you can download the cumulative update for sql server 08 rtm.
link is here :
http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=2507770&kbln=tr

this is in turkish.but you can easily understand what you need to download.

good luck

By: Yuran Shrestha

Yuran Shrestha — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 07:00:07 +0000

Apply the following fix from microsoft to resolve the problem you face in intellisense.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2507770

By: kamlesh

kamlesh — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:25:43 +0000

Taking a database offline on a SQL Server 2008 or 2008 R2 instance will break intellisense for all databases on the instance when using SSMS 2008 R2 once the local cache is refreshed (either explicitly or through a new connection).

This only has an affect when taking a database offline that was online when the instance was last restarted. After a restart with the database offline, intellisense works again as expected.

This does not affect intellisense when using SSMS 2008.

–Kamlesh Samnani

By: R2

R2 — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 19:51:22 +0000

THX guys but only after installing the SP1 update intellisense come back to life.

By: BillVo

BillVo — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:35:14 +0000

See Microsoft Connect issue on this topic:
SSMS: Intellisense breaks when a database is taken offline
http://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/566786#details

By: arun

arun — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:30:54 +0000

Goto TOOLS – OPTIONS and Reset everything to Default.

By: VIDYASAGAR

VIDYASAGAR — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:59:57 +0000

THANKS, ITS VERY USEFUL TO ME

By: leading concepts uk ltd

leading concepts uk ltd — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:09:37 +0000

Hi there. As I found this a good starting point to my issues with intellisense Only fair to add my resolution that may help others. All the settings were as you mentioned already but did not fix my issue.
eventually with further searching for win 7 pro – was advised to install SQLServer2008R2SP1-KB2528583-x64-ENU
Restart required – i did refresh cache. I have intellisense!!!!! thanks a stack

By: db

db — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 08:01:37 +0000

I am on SQL 2008 R2 on 64 bit windows 7, using SSMS.
In my case, enabling “open new queries in SQLCMD mode” helps.

By: AspNet

AspNet — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:50:28 +0000

I still have same problem after all :(

By: David Carrillo (@dacanetdev)

David Carrillo (@dacanetdev) — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 09:45:17 +0000

I have already applied the tricks in this, by the way this is great, unfortuntely after that my SSMS Intellisense was not working. I realized that SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 is there since July and had not installed in my machine. I installed it and it is working fine. This SP contains the Cumulative Updated including the one that fix the Intellisense after install VS 2010 SP1

By: Serge

Serge — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 23:10:21 +0000

After reading this blog , I realized that having database offline caused intellisense to stop working. I put the database back online and refreshed intellisense cache ( Edit >>Intellisense >> Refresh Locale Cache) and everything is back to normal. If your database is anything but online , you will get this problem with intellisense. Is there a fix for this from MS ???

By: Ashok Vaghani

Ashok Vaghani — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:39:04 +0000

I have same problem with PROD and found that prod user has more restriction than DEV user. Try giving more access to PROD user. Sometimes in PROD env, they have tighten the security and closed some of the options.