Tip-1: Exciting SSMS features derived from Visual Studio

In this series of posts, we’ll see few great yet less known and under utilized tips/features those are there since earlier versions of Visual Studio and later made their way to SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio). I am sure, you’ll love these tips.

Tip 1: Clipboard Ring – Copy Paste rediscovered
How many times it has happened that you have copied some text and before pasting it on the desired position /location, copied another chunk of text and then you realized that you lost the previous copy?
Have you ever wished for a feature which can help you accessing text previously copied to clipboard and which should be as simple as the popular copy paste shortcuts?

If you are using Visual Studio 2010 or newer, probably you already know this. Since SSMS 2012, this feature know as “Clipboard Ring” has been introduced. Either of the following two simple keyboard shortcuts will do the job.

CTRL + SHIFT + V

CTRL + SHIFT + INS

Using these shortcuts you can cycle through the clipboard ring which stores maximum of 20 copy actions.

Hopefully, you liked this tips. Please stay tuned to learn few more exciting tips in this series. Will love to hear from you. Thanks for reading 🙂