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Using Code Snippets in SSMS

Luis Cazares

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April 6, 2016 at 11:36 pm

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Eirikur Eiriksson SSC Guru Points: 182915 More actions · Answer 1

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April 6, 2016 at 11:39 pm

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Very useful reference Luis, thank you!

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liebesiech SSCrazy Points: 2610 More actions · Answer 2

Thanks for this! I'm one of those guys who has a folder(s) with all the useful SQL snippets but when I need it, I usually forgot where I put them...

Having the Snippets in SSMS is just great and logical at the same time.:-)

SQLvis SSC Eights! Points: 851 More actions · Answer 3

Are there any examples for creating an MDX Snippet?

cstringham SSC Journeyman Points: 94 More actions · Answer 4

Here's a tool called Snippets Generator[/url] that I've been using that allows you to past the SQL and generate the snippet.

john.w.walker Old Hand Points: 386 More actions · Answer 5

I have been looking for/wanting these in SSMS since I started using it, we have had such things in Homesite forever. Glad to hear it will be in 2012, can't wait till I upgrade.

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SQLvis (4/7/2016)
Are there any examples for creating an MDX Snippet?

I'm sorry. SSMS still doesn't support snippets for MDX queries.

I'm not sure if Visual Studio has that capability.

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cstringham (4/7/2016)
Here's a tool called Snippets Generator[/url] that I've been using that allows you to past the SQL and generate the snippet.

It's nice, but it's still missing the use of literals. That's a great functionality that would make this tool perfect.

Thank you for sharing. 😉

Luis C.
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john.w.walker (4/7/2016)
I have been looking for/wanting these in SSMS since I started using it, we have had such things in Homesite forever. Glad to hear it will be in 2012, can't wait till I upgrade.

You could update SSMS without updating your servers. Just saying 🙂

Luis C.
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akljfhnlaflkj SSC Guru Points: 76202 More actions · Answer 9

akljfhnlaflkj

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April 7, 2016 at 8:03 am

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Thanks for the good article.

Alan Burstein SSC Guru Points: 61141 More actions · Answer 10

Great article Luis. I have learned something new today. I never played around with snippets but have a dozen ideas how they can make life easier.

"I cant stress enough the importance of switching from a sequential files mindset to set-based thinking. After you make the switch, you can spend your time tuning and optimizing your queries instead of maintaining lengthy, poor-performing code."

-- Itzik Ben-Gan 2001

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SQLvis (4/7/2016)
Are there any examples for creating an MDX Snippet?

That was my first thought. 😉

You just have templates. I just found this article: http://byobi.com/blog/2013/04/ssms-templates-for-ssas-developers/[/url]

"I cant stress enough the importance of switching from a sequential files mindset to set-based thinking. After you make the switch, you can spend your time tuning and optimizing your queries instead of maintaining lengthy, poor-performing code."

-- Itzik Ben-Gan 2001

john.w.walker Old Hand Points: 386 More actions · Answer 12

I once did that and tried using a newer version of SSMS with an older database. You sure I can use SSMS 12 with SQL Server 2008 R2 databases with no problems? I am stuck on 2008 until we can upgrade Microsoft Dynamics Navision - which I hope to get approved for next year.

cstringham SSC Journeyman Points: 94 More actions · Answer 13

You can definitely do so. I use SSMS 2014 and all of our instances are 2014 except one that is an old 2000 instance and it works fine.

This of course also worked with SSMS 2005 through 2012 too.

cghersi SSC Enthusiast Points: 127 More actions · Answer 14

Thanks for the information, very useful.

I also propose the use of this (external) tool, specifically designed to share the snippets among colleagues and team members: https://www.snip2code.com. It also comes with an handy plugin for Visual Studio, if needed.

All my scripts are stored there and I can easily reach them even when I'm in RDP on the servers of my customers who don't let me connect to the server from my local Management Studio...