IntelliSense is not working in SQL Server Management Studio

Question

We use SQL Server Management Studio 2008 R2. IntelliSense works with SA account perfectly. But it is not working with Windows Authentication user. The user has access master db

Answer 1

I tried all the above/below suggestions... and nothing worked.

• Going to options and toggling everything off and on didn't work.
• Toggling SQLCMD didn't work
• Going to Edit > Intellisense and toggling everything off and on didn't work.
• Changing RAM and Cache size didn't work.
• I tried rebooting and that didn't work.

But the one thing that finally (in an act of desparation where I'd try anything ... even the stupidest idea ever suggested...) that finally... DID WORK was:

I opened a new query tab. Copied my code from the script file I had open, Pasted it into the new query tab. And proceeded to be stunned in horror as intellisense began working again.

Not only did it begin working in my new query tab... but it began working in my original one as well.

Sometimes I just want to bang my head againt the desk.

Hope this tid bit helps someone. :)

P.S. Yes... I waited a while after each of the failed attempts to make sure intellisense wasn't taking it's good ole time trying to find itself. The "New Query Tab" insanity worked instantly.