SSMS "Intellisense" behaviour is driving me demented
This behaviour is doing my head in and I'm hoping that there is a simple way to change it?Just to give you an example, I am starting to write a little query to check the status of FullText Indexes on database objects. This is for illustration purposes only so don't tell me what "better" alternatives there are for doing this, I just want to illustrate the behaviour that's bugging me.So the query I would like to run is:SELECT [SO].[name], [FI].[is_enabled] FROM sys.objects [SO] inner join sys.fulltext_indexes [FI] on [FI].object_id = [SO].object_idThe behaviour that annoys me can be illustrated as follows. In SSMS, type this:SELECT * FROM sys.objects [SO] inner join sys.fulltext_indexes [FI] on [FI].object_id = [SO].object_idThen go back to the *, remove it and start typing [SO] in order to get intellisense to show you column names you can choose from. So you have typed [SO] and your cursor is right behind the closing bracket:SELECT [SO]<cursor here> FROM sys.objects [SO] inner join sys.fulltext_indexes [FI] on [FI].object_id = [SO].object_id Type the dot The statement changes to:SELECT [SOUNDEX]. FROM sys.objects [SO] inner join sys.fulltext_indexes [FI] on [FI].object_id = [SO].object_idI didn't want "soundex". I wanted intellisense to show me a list of column names in sys.objects, aliased to "[SO]" by me. It does that once I hit Ctrl+Z which removes the auto-inserted [SOUNDEX] and then when I hit the dot again it shows me the list of columns. So I pick [name] and start adding the next column by typing , [FI]. And here it goes again:SELECT [SO].[name], [FILE_ID]. FROM sys.objects [SO] inner join sys.fulltext_indexes [FI] on [FI].object_id = [SO].object_idI didn't want [FILE_ID]. I wanted [FI]. and a popup showing the the column names in sys.fulltext_indexes I can choose from.Sure, this is one heck of a "first world problem" but as a touch typist this is driving me around the bend. If there's a way to change this behaviour (without losing Intellisense altogether), please tell me how.
