I was sitting with this exact problem right now.

Ok, what did I wrong? I found my mistake and I correct shortcut into “SELECT TOP 10 * FROM “. Than quick CTRL+3 and…
Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
Incorrect syntax near the keyword ‘from’.

Oh! common… what`s wrong?!
I check one more time shortcut – OK
I saw comments to this post – all are happy…
I run SQL Profiler and I saw: “SELECT TOP10 * FROM my_table”
WTF?!

The key point is that I changed shortcut while it was opened query window.
SSMS load all shortcuts at the beginning and didn`t reload them later, even I changed one of them.

My solution is:
You change something in shortcuts? It will works only in new query windows. Old queries have “old” shortcuts.

declare @d1 date=’01/01/2013′
declare @d2 date=’02/28/2013′

;with cte_date (row_date)as(
select @d1
union all
select DATEADD(DD,1,row_date) from cte_date where row_date<@d2

)
select * from cte_date

Now speaking directly, how we can have trick to list table rows order by PK (if table has any PK and it’ll be there most of the time)?

What I was trying to do when i post my first comment is:
I was trying to get the PK column name’s list from sys.columns, now to use sys.columns, I may need to use sys,tables to get the object id,

I am wondering if we can use a sub query in order by clause!!

For example:

SELECT * FROM employees
ORDER BY (SELECT TOP 1 C.name + ‘ DESC’ AS orderby_text FROM sys.columns c INNER JOIN sys.tables t ON c.object_id = t.object_id AND t.name = ‘employees’ AND c.is_identity = 1)

this is kumar , having one query to ask…
there are two input dates

@d1= 01/02/2013
@d2= 28/02/2013

now what’s we write the query to generate bellow output.

output:
01/02/2013
01/02/2013
……
……
28/02/2013

I spent nearly 10 minutes trying to understand your question, tried reading it in atleast 10 different ways but failed everytime.

But to make a generic statement, you can create a stored procedure that accepts parameter and perform what every search you want to do, just put the logic inside the stored procedure, if you think table name will change then make it dynamic sql sp and then execute the sp from keyboard short cuts.

If this doesn’t help then please elaborate your questions with some samples.

~ IM.