Developer Tip Quickly look up table information in SQL Server Management Studio

July 20th 2009 | Jonathan Cogley

Quickly look up table information in SQL Server Management Studio

You are working on a SQL query joining some tables when you need to know more about one of your tables … you could open another query window and run “sp_help tbUserGroup” OR you can just select the table and hit ALT F1 to do the same thing!

thanks to Mark King for showing me this trick

Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software, an agile software consulting and product development company based in Washington DC. Secret Server is our flagship enterprise password management product.Are you on Twitter? Follow Jonathan

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