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Outlining not working in SSMS 18.x and 19.x
Edit, This problem is also present in SSMS 20.1, Does Microsoft care at all, or are they not capable of fixing this? In SSMS 18.x and 19.x, the outlining feature that allows you to collapse SQL c...
- Sorry for not updating the original text, this issue is also present in SSMS 19, in fact everything newer than SSMS 17 has this problem
erinstellato
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MicrosoftMake sure the setting is enabled...go to Tools > Options > Text Editor > Transact-SQL > IntelliSense, ensure that Outline statements is enabled.
erinstellato if you read my description carefully, you will notice this part:
"I have tried to uncheck outline statements in the option under intellisense and then recheck it, but that makes no difference."
the point being that I cannot enable it when it stops working, other than closing and restarting SSMS a couple of times until it starts working again, which is very annoying to have to do since it is very slow to close and to start
- erinstellatoAh, my mistake, I misread it as the Intelliense option. I have this enabled for my local SSMS (version 19 and 20 installed) and have not seen the issue. Do you have any third party extensions installed? I noticed other folks mentioned RedGate Prompt but I am not sure if you have that extension, or any other one installed. Thanks.