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  • Back to Basics,  Quick and Dirty

    Quick SSMS Tip

    September 11, 2019 /

    It is widely known that I am a horrible speller and hate to type code. I tend to use a lot of code snippets and reuse code to avoid writing it. So, when I find little tips that make coding easier for me, I like to share. Did you know that you can surround your code with a click of a button with IF, BEGIN END, WHILE code blocks? SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) gives us the basic structure of a Transact-SQL statement code block as a starting point. Take Look In SSMS In a query window, Right Click and Choose Surround With (note the hot keys of Ctrl+K or…

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