{"id":222,"date":"2007-07-09T15:58:43","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T20:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"\/cgi\/wp\/?p=222"},"modified":"2019-12-06T19:19:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T00:19:41","slug":"sql-server-2005-annoyances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"SQL Server 2005 Annoyances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many annoying things about SQL Server 2005 is how it replaces SELECT ALL written as &#8220;SELECT * FROM&#8221;with a complete list of the column names. After testing a SQL statement in the SQL Pane to determine that it works, I don&#8217;t want my asterisk expanded into a three or four line list of column names. I usually want to copy and paste a working SQL statement into my documentation or notes.<\/p>\n<p>Today I discovered how to disable this behavior. Just select Tools and then Options from the menu and select All Languages under Text Editor. Uncheck &#8220;Auto list members&#8221;\u009d. This will stop the &#8220;statement completion&#8221;of the asterisk in a SELECT.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"SQL Server 2005 Annoyances\" src=\"http:\/\/img201.imageshack.us\/img201\/8903\/sqlserver2005autolistmeow6.gif\" alt=\"SQL Server 2005 Annoyances\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many annoying things about SQL Server 2005 is how it replaces SELECT ALL written as &#8220;SELECT * FROM&#8221;with a complete list of the column names. After testing a SQL statement in the SQL Pane to determine that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/?p=222\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3202,"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/3202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamsportwebdeveloper.com\/cgi\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}