A online friend and fellow moderator from the forums, Deepak Rangarajan, asked a good question this morning in a chat that is worthy of blogging about. In SQL Management Studio 2005 you could hit the F8 key as a shortcut to bring up the Object Explorer. I personally didn't know this until today, but out of the box SSMS 2008 doesn't do this. Since I started in SQL 2000 using the old Query Analyzer, I know the old hot keys for doing things like Ctl+Shft+C will comment out the current highlighted code block, and Ctl+Shft+R will uncomment it. This was not available with the default keyboard configuration in SSMS 2005, but you can change the Keyboard to the SQL 2000 settings in Tools->Options and it will work as it did in Query Analyzer. Naturally this was one of the first changes I made in SSMS 2008 when I installed it, but this also brings the F8 shortcut functionality back.
11 months ago
Hi Jonathan,
ReplyDeleteI found that this issue has been logged in connect feedback recently. Please refer the below URL,
http://connect.microsoft.com/sqlserver/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=362211