One of the things that I do with my code is to include reference links to what I was doing where applicable. SSMS provides us with a way to navigate directly to these web links, instead of having to copy the link and paste it into your browser. All that is needed for this is to Ctrl+click the link in the SSMS query window, in it’s own SSMS Web Browser. In the below screenshot, we can see two such links.

When you hover over the link, you get this little popup message:

Now, just Ctrl+click the link. SSMS will open a new tab and navigate to that link:

And there you have the SSMS Web Browser.

This post is for day twenty-five of my month-long blog series “A Month of SSMS Tips”. I have a landing page for the series at bit.ly/MonthOfSSMS. Please visit this page for an easy place to quickly view all of the other tips in this series.