MSSQLTREK

I’m assuming whoever reading this post is already aware of SQL Server 2008 SSMS brand new Enhancement “IntelliSense”. Being said that, was “IntelliSense” really Intelligent enough upto SQL Server 2008R2? IMHO, It’s not really smart enough to read our minds! But WHY?? Because, It’s not smart enough to recognize a word in middle of your Object name! For Example, if you need information regarding DB Mirroring Endpoints, you’ve to actually start your typing with  “SYS.DATABASE_MIRRORING_*******”. With all the new hundreds and hundreds of DMO’s available, it’s really difficult to remember each and every starting word of a DMO. It would be really nice if SSMS is smart enough to return all the Objects if it finds a word anywhere in the Object name. I mean, in the above example It should display a list of all DMO’s even though we just type “SYS.MIRR” irrespective of where the word “MIRR” actually present.

You know what, with SQL 2012 that is how it works 🙂 This Simply Rocks!! It makes our DBA life so simple…Yeyyyyyy 🙂

See below Screenshots for better understanding what I meant in the above paragraph.

SSMS 2008R2:

As you can see in the above Screen cap, it’s no where close to Mirroring DMV’s 😦 In other words, I’ve to remember the actual starting words in that DMV!!

SSMS 2012:

Here you can see a list of all the DMO’s which contain a word “Mirr” any where in the Object! This is what I call it as really “Intelligent”. This is something which is really really Cooooooool!!!