{"id":894,"date":"2005-11-05T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-05T08:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/bobb\/post\/Two-cool-add-ins-for-SSMS.aspx"},"modified":"2013-03-24T18:47:52","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T01:47:52","slug":"two-cool-add-ins-for-ssms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/bobb\/two-cool-add-ins-for-ssms\/","title":{"rendered":"Two cool add-ins for SSMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nNow that SQL Server 2005 has been released, I&#39;m becoming more &quot;at one&quot; with the tools. I&#39;ve commented on a couple of cool features as things evolved, but having worked with the product since it&#39;s early beginnings I&#39;ve also learned a lot of DDL. And learned early on that, &quot;just because you can&#39;t do it with the graphic-user interface doesn&#39;t mean it can&#39;t&nbsp;be done&quot;. I&#39;m pleasently surprised of the evolution of SQL Server Management Studio. It can do almost everything&#8230;but CREATE a QUEUE or SERVICE from Object Explorer (A minor inconvenience). The cool things far overshadow the few limitations.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever&#8230;today I came across two add-ins for SSMS that I can&#39;t do without. Already. First one solves the hassle of not being able to rearrange the folder entries in SSMS Projects&nbsp;in alphabetic order. I always thought this would appear in the &quot;next CTP, right around the corner. It didn&#39;t. And Jasper Smith published this nice &quot;external tool&quot; that I now can&#39;t do without. Thanks Jasper.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#39;ve always loved intellisense. Not that I can&#39;t memorize tons of API interfaces and methods if I have to\/use them all the time. The OLE DB interfaces and methods come to mind. But I always used Visual Studio, even in the early .NET&nbsp;pre-alpha days (when EMACS for Windows made a comeback) because of the intellisense. One of the interesting side-effects with intellisense is most often, if it doesn&#39;t show up in intellisense, you&#39;re pretty sure you&#39;ve mistyped the class\/interface name.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSecond SSMS add-in I can&#39;t do without is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/products\/sql-development\/sql-prompt\/\">PromptSQL<\/a>. Very (sorry VERY, VERY (2 capital &ldquo;very&ldquo;s)) cool add in. I use it mostly in SSMS, but it also supports Query Analyzer and Visual Studio database projects. It has one superb feature I wish they&#39;d have in VS intellisense. The &quot;aggresion level&quot; of intellisense, ie, how long it wait before popping up the intellisense is configurable. Although its mostly the &quot;aggresion level&quot; of automatic statement completion in VS that&#39;s a pain, especially in VS 2005 it&#39;s way too aggressive.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnyway I&#39;ve a convert to the tools. And certain add-ins. I&#39;ve probably created my last trivial DDL without Template Explorer. And puzzled over table names without intellisense for the last time. Back to work&#8230;it&#39;s only just after midnight. What IS ASP.NET Cache Sync doing with Service Broker anyhow?&#8230;story for another day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that SQL Server 2005 has been released, I&#39;m becoming more &quot;at one&quot; with the tools. I&#39;ve commented on a couple of cool features as things evolved, but having worked with the product since it&#39;s early beginnings I&#39;ve also learned a lot of DDL. 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