SSMS Tips and Tricks 7-18: Opening shortcuts

(Thanks to César F. for this one)

If you are working with many script files and they are all over your disk/storage, it can be painful to need to keep navigating whenever you want to open one.

However, when you use the File > Open > File option in SSMS, the dialog that opens up is capable of opening operating system shortcuts, and not just files. This means that you can have a folder of shortcuts and every time you need to open one of these files, you can just have it open the same location.

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2025-12-05