This particular question I just received in my recent SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop. It was a very interesting question and hence I am going to blog about it. The question which I received was – How to Invoke SSMS Help From Command Prompt?
There is yet another method to invoke SSMS is using the command prompt. In fact, the shortcut is SSMS.
C:\> ssms
This will bring up the SSMS just like the shortcut we invoked before. The more interesting way to look at this shortcut is to check the various options available with SSMS command line parameters. To check them, use the following command:
C:\> ssms /?
This brings us various options as shown. The most interesting option here is the capability to use the –S option like SQL Server Name and the steps it normally takes to make an SSMS studio completely operational for work would include close to 3-4 clicks. If we use the –E option, then we can load the SQL Server Management Studio directly with a query window.
Let me know if you know this trick? If you know any such tricks, please post it here in the comments section and I will publish the blog post with due credit. I am writing a whitepaper on this subject and I will soon share the link to the blog post.
Reference: Pinal Dave (https://blog.sqlauthority.com)
