SQL Server Management Studio

Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcut Key Effect-Description

ALT + N New query window

CTRL + F4 Close current query window

F5 Execute the selected query or if nothing is selected, then execute the entire

content

CTRL + W Highlight the word where the cursor is currently located

CTRL + Shift + U Convert selected text to UPPER CASE

CTRL + Shift + L Convert selected text to lower case

CTRL + T Results to Text

CTRL + D Results to Grid

CTRL + SHIFT + F Results to File

CTRL + R Toggle display of results pane

F7 Display Object Explorer Details

CTRL + ALT + G Display Registered Servers pane

CTRL + K, C Comment Selection or line

CTRL + K, U Uncomment Selection or line

CTRL + TAB Cycle through open query windows and panes

F6 / SHIFT + F6 Cycle through the query text, resultsets and messages pane inside a query

window

CTRL + J Display Intellisense menu (Only in SSMS in SQL Server 2008 and later)

CTRL + ALT + L Display Solution Explorer

CTRL + SHIFT + R Refresh Intellisense cache

ALT + F1 Execute sp_help

CTRL + 1 Execute sp_who

CTRL + 2 Execute sp_lock

CTRL + SHIFT + ALT +

L Display the Execution Plan