{"id":59,"date":"2012-05-15T15:33:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T20:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sqlphilosopher.com\/wp\/?p=59"},"modified":"2012-05-15T15:34:13","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T20:34:13","slug":"intellisense-space-completion-change-in-ssms-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlphilosopher.com\/wp\/2012\/05\/intellisense-space-completion-change-in-ssms-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Intellisense Space-Completion Change in SSMS 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft added Intellisense to SSMS in 2008 and many of us have come to love this feature.\u00a0 However, in 2012, one of my co-workers noticed a problem (from his perspective) in the Intellisense completion action.\u00a0 The default configuration of SSMS 2012 is such that you can no longer complete an Intellisense selection using a &#8220;Space&#8221;.\u00a0 I never noticed this issue because I use &#8220;Tab&#8221; to do my completions, which still works correctly.\u00a0 My co-worker was further annoyed to find that there is no way to change this in the SSMS &#8220;Tools&#8211;&gt;Options&#8221; dialog, as you might expect.\u00a0 However, there is a fix available.\u00a0 As noted in <a title=\"Intellisense window has input field, and doesn't commit on space\" href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/5718657\/intellisense-window-has-input-field-and-doesnt-commit-on-space\" target=\"_blank\">this StackOverflow Article<\/a>, if you hit CTRL+ALT+SPACE, the input mode is changed and space works once again.\u00a0 I hope this helps someone who may have been frustrated by this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft added Intellisense to SSMS in 2008 and many of us have come to love this feature.\u00a0 However, in 2012, one of my co-workers noticed a problem (from his perspective) in the Intellisense completion action.\u00a0 The default configuration of SSMS &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlphilosopher.com\/wp\/2012\/05\/intellisense-space-completion-change-in-ssms-2012\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1vS3B-X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlphilosopher.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlphilosopher.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlphilosopher.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlphilosopher.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlphilosopher.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlphilosopher.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlphilosopher.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlphilosopher.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlphilosopher.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}