Comments on: SQL SERVER – SELECT TOP Shortcut in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)

By: Rahul

Rahul — Wed, 01 May 2013 18:49:32 +0000

Nice tip.. how woulf with nolock work here?

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[...] SELECT TOP Shortcut in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) This tool is pretty old, yet always comes as a handy tip. I had a great trip at TechEd in India. And, during one of my presentations, I was asked if there are any shortcuts to SELECT only TOP 100 records from SSMS. I immediately told him that if he explores the table in SSMS, he can just right click on it and SELECT TOP 1000 records. If he wanted only 100 records, then he could edit that 1000 to 100 by means of going to Options. [...]

By: SV

SV — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:23:44 +0000

Thank you for the useful tip Pinal.

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By: aloknit

aloknit — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 10:08:22 +0000

nice bolg dear … it is beneficiary for people …

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By: Ronaldo Brisola

Ronaldo Brisola — Thu, 24 May 2012 19:33:09 +0000

Hi!
This is a very useful tip.

But I’m trying to find a way to create a shortcut to open a script file.
Does anybody know a tip for this?

Thank you.

By: Marc Trudel

Marc Trudel — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:48:03 +0000

Hi
How is the selected text is passed to the SP
ex:
I have this SP
ALTER PROC [dbo].[sp_MyQuickQueries] @QryId VARCHAR(30), @tbl VARCHAR (128)
and different CTRL-? use different @QryId so that I only have ONE proc instead of having one proc per shortcut key.

For CTRL-5 I assigned
dbo.sp_MyQuickQueries ‘COLUMNS_ORDERBY_NAME’, <– notice comma at end. I expected that SSMS would add the selected text after the comma but no.

In my SP I have several IF like this
IF @QryId = 'COLUMNS_ORDERBY_NAME' Begin

The SP works well when called directly.
But not from a shortcut key.
I get error

Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
Incorrect syntax near 'MYTABLE'.
MYTABLE beeing the selected text when i hit CTRL-5

Any idea ?

By: Yunus

Yunus — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 07:41:40 +0000

Great Tip, Thank U very much

By: Shashi

Shashi — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:48:01 +0000

Hi curio,
to get the top 1000 rows , ordered by the primary key descending

Type the below in query window and Click Cntrl + 3
AgreementTable order by AgreementID desc

By: Ashish

Ashish — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:41:42 +0000

sorry i mean edition of sql server. Its available in 2005 and 2008 as well if its developer or enterprise(these two I am using)

By: Ashish

Ashish — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:39:48 +0000

Depend on what sql version you using..

By: CJ

CJ — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:04:00 +0000

I also can’t see the SQL Server Object Explorer option in options – also in SSMS 2005. Any updates on this? Thanks

By: Ash

Ash — Fri, 14 May 2010 22:40:19 +0000

Yeah, I dont see SQL Server Object Explorer Node when I go to options in SSMS 2005…..How do we proceed in this case??

By: Suman Jha

Suman Jha — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:23:53 +0000

Yaa !! really nice

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:44:23 +0000

Can this be down in SSMS 2005 as well? I don’t have the SQL Server Object Explorer Node when I go to options. Thanks!

By: deepkt

deepkt — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:52:19 +0000

Nice tip.Keep posting these tricks..

By: curio

curio — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:02:04 +0000

Does anyone know how to edit the statement? I would like to get the top 1000 rows , but ordered by the primary key descending. This way, the newest records will be displayed first. This would be especially handy for history tables.

Thanks
curio

By: Nitin Sharma

Nitin Sharma — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 06:37:55 +0000

Pinal,
It was fantastic…I have implemented it…

Keep posting these tricks..

Thanks,
Niitn Sharma

By: Mike Emerick

Mike Emerick — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:09:16 +0000

This is great! Thanks for sharing this. I am a big fan of tips like this.

By: Ramdas

Ramdas — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:21:19 +0000

Nice tip, this would be really helpful if one needs to frequently audit/check a certain table for records.

By: Tejas Shah

Tejas Shah — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:16:31 +0000

Excellent short cut.

I know about Alt + F1 only. and was believe that this is only by default option.

Thanks for sharing this info.

Tejas

By: varun

varun — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 08:06:59 +0000

Thats help full. Thanks.

Question:
In ssms, I saw that for some of the clients there is a option to create a project but for some there isn’t? I am not sure if there is a edition difference. If so what are all the editions provides us an option to create a solution.

Thanks for all the help.

By: Akash Bavlecha

Akash Bavlecha — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 03:51:55 +0000

Thanks Pinal,

This is what i was looking for.