If you're like most people, you probably spend a lot of time editing your SQL code in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Did you know that you can use find and replace functionality to speed up the process? Here's how

1. SQL Tips
and Timesavers
How to easily remove
new line and carriage
return from code in SSMS

3. Select the rows you need to
remove the spacing from

5. Ctrl+H to bring up the
replace dialogue

6. Make sure the SQL code is still
selected
Make sure the Regular Expressions
option is also selected

7. You can see the selection highlight
orange, ready to be replaced
Type n into the first box
Make sure that the second (Replace)
box is empty, then click Replace All

9. This has replaced the new line
character, but there is also a
carriage return character

10. Type r into the first box
Click replace all again

11. You may also need to remove
spacings, just use the technique
to remove six spaces

13. With these find a replace shortcuts you can easily make your SQL code
much more compact to read
Hope you find this useful

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