Wednesday, September 03, 2014

Restoring Toggle Results Window as Ctrl+R in SSMS

Recent versions of SQL Server Management Studio have unmapped Control+R as the toggle for the Results window in a typical query window. Each time I work on a new SSMS environment or refresh my laptop, I find myself seeking out how to restore this setting. This blog post is as much a reference for my future self as anything.

Instead of the results pane, you may instead see at the bottom left corner of SSMS the following messages:
"(Ctrl+R) was pressed. Waiting for second key of chord..." or then "The key combination (Ctrl+R, Ctrl+R) is not a command."

Here's how to remap the Results pane to Ctrl+R, including a picture below.
  1. In SSMS, go to Tools, Options.
  2. Under Environment, click on Keyboard.
  3. In the Show Commands containing box, you're looking for "Window.ShowResultsPane".
  4. Change the "Use new shortcut in" dropdown to "SQL Query Editor." 
    • Note: This step is important - mapping Ctrl+R to "Global" won't work.
  5. Click in the "Press shortcut keys" field and hit Ctrl+R on your keyboard. Click the Assign button.
  6. Click OK.
  7. In your query windows, you can now Ctrl+R to toggle the results window all you like.



Updated: 20180105 because again I needed to this blog post as a reference myself, added the chord messages to improve SEO.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Great article