SSMS 17.7/SQL Assistant 9.5.469 popup corruption

SSMS 17.7/SQL Assistant 9.5.469 popup corruption

This doesn't appear to apply to SQL Editor, but when I type something like

Where [column] = and I scroll into the functions I get a lot of 'descriptions' that are in some Chinese character.

screen shot:

https://i.imgur.com/ep9LtFt.png

Last edited by Mindflux on Tue May 15, 2018 3:45 pm; edited 1 time in total

Ok, a SSMS restart fixed it, but then I changed a database explorer option (show extended set of objects) to no and when i went back in and typed a where it had chinese characters again.

If I smash F5 while the popup is in place it seems to fix that.

Video:

https://www.screencast.com/t/hSHpbDvq

So you can see I change an option, get chinese characters and then I hit F5 and it 'fixes' the popup character issue.

Maybe some sort of memory corruption when changing sql assistant options?

*Edit:it is also not limited to Database Explorer settings. If I change some autocomplete settings it'll do it too.

Here's a video with some even more 'extended' corruption:

https://www.screencast.com/t/RC00MbYU

Now it seems the descriptions are showing all sorts of 'behind the scenes' type code.

Nice. I guess that could be classified as easter(n) egg :)

	gemisigo wrote:
	Nice. I guess that could be classified as easter(n) egg :)

I hope it’s reproducable and fixable 👍

We were able to reproduce this issue. It's a bug in the code applying changes in the options to target SSMS environment. A fix is expected in the next release.