SQL Files open in a new SSMS instance
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When I double click on a .sql file, it starts up SSMS and loads my file. When I click on a second file, I'd like it to open in the SSMS that is currently running. Right now, it's not doing that. Anyone know where I can go to make the change? Thanks!
Thanks,
Chad
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Any reason why you want to do this? As new SSMS costs more memory than a new tab in existing SSMS
SQLServerNewbieMCITP: Database Administrator SQL Server 2005 -
Yes, that is what I would like to do - have it open in the SSMS that is already running. Right now it opens a new SSMS everytime I double-click a .sql file and it is much more difficult to manage my open files that way - particularly when they are related in some way. It is much easier to go down a list of tabs than have to ALT-TAB over. I've done some research and found people who have it working that way, I'm not sure why mine isn't... I can get it to work by dragging from Explorer to SSMS, but old habit die hard, and I keep forgetting.
Thanks,
Chad
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Have you found a solution to this issue?
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No, but I'm getting more accustomed to dragging the file into the window. I guess after doing it for a year it starts to become second nature. If you found something let me know, but I'm almost acclimated and switching now might be difficult. 😛
Chad
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I've had the same problem; I assume it is normal behaviour when starting SSMS that way.
What I do is open SSMS first, and let it connect to the server. Once it's done that, you can double-click on SQL files and they'll all open in separate tabs in the one SSMS instance.
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I had the same problem. What worked for me was to change a certain registry key.
For A solution see:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1726577/sql-management-studio-wont-open-scripts-on-double-click
However, instead of replacing /dde by "%1" I just added (a space and) "%1" at the end.
Leo
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Chad Crawford (3/6/2009)
Yes, that is what I would like to do - have it open in the SSMS that is already running. Right now it opens a new SSMS everytime I double-click a .sql file and it is much more difficult to manage my open files that way - particularly when they are related in some way. It is much easier to go down a list of tabs than have to ALT-TAB over. I've done some research and found people who have it working that way, I'm not sure why mine isn't... I can get it to work by dragging from Explorer to SSMS, but old habit die hard, and I keep forgetting.Thanks,
Chad
My system works as you want it to.
What happens when you double-click a file in Explorer is controlled by the following registry keys:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\sqlwb.sql.9.0
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.sql
On my system these keys are configured as follows:
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.sql]
"PerceivedType"="text"
@="sqlwb.sql.9.0"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.sql\PersistentHandler]
@="{5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\sqlwb.sql.9.0]
@="Microsoft SQL Server Query File"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\sqlwb.sql.9.0\DefaultIcon]
@="c:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft SQL Server\\100\\Tools\\Binn\\VSShell\\Common7\\IDE\\ssms.exe,-10000"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\sqlwb.sql.9.0\Shell]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\sqlwb.sql.9.0\Shell\Open]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\sqlwb.sql.9.0\Shell\Open\Command]
@="\"c:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft SQL Server\\100\\Tools\\Binn\\VSShell\\Common7\\IDE\\ssms.exe\" /dde"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\sqlwb.sql.9.0\Shell\Open\ddeexec]
@="Open(\"%1\")"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\sqlwb.sql.9.0\Shell\Open\ddeexec\application]
@="sqlwb.9.0"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\sqlwb.sql.9.0\Shell\Open\ddeexec\topic]
@="system"
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I am having the same problem with SSMS 2012. Unfortunately, sqlwb.sql.9.0 is not for SSMS 2012 so the above will not work.
Does anyone have a solution for SSMS 2012?
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This works if you associate .sql files with ssms in file explorer.
Right-click a .sql file in a TFS solution and select Open with...
Press Add...
The Program is C:\Windows\explorer.exe
Friendly name is Windows Explorer
Press OK and set as default -
Do you have some screen shots? In TFS Pro 2013 when a .sql file is right-clicked there is no Open With...
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I use VS2015 Pro and a co-worker just confirmed this works in VS2013 also.
Here is the right click to open with:
Here is the Add Program and Set as Default:
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Finally, something that worked! Thanks!
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This is a recurring pain for many regardless of the version of SSMS! After struggling with this inconvenience for too long and striking out in Google, I found a solution!
My SSMS was running as Administrator. I turned this off and now opening new Files open in the current running instance of SSMS, and I do not get prompted every time I Launch SSMS!
Right Click the SSMS icon, Properties, Compatibility tab, un-check "Rn as Administrator".
Hope this helps!
- evans911 wrote:
This is a recurring pain for many regardless of the version of SSMS! After struggling with this inconvenience for too long and striking out in Google, I found a solution!
My SSMS was running as Administrator. I turned this off and now opening new Files open in the current running instance of SSMS, and I do not get prompted every time I Launch SSMS!
Right Click the SSMS icon, Properties, Compatibility tab, un-check "Rn as Administrator".
Hope this helps!
What version of SSMS are you using? I ask because I don't see a check box for "Run as Administrator" in any SSMS icon on my system. I'm using the latest SSMS and SQLServer 2016 and 2017 and I don't recall seeing such a thing in 2008 or any other version of SSMS. Yep... there's an entry where I can select to run as administrator but but there's no checkbox.
--Jeff Moden
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First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
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