Comments on: So you’ve changed the text display settings, and SSMS still won’t show more than 256 characters. http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/so-youve-changed-the-text-display-settings-and-ssms-still-wont-show-more-than-256-characters/ Tue, 07 May 2013 13:39:52 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jameslean http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/so-youve-changed-the-text-display-settings-and-ssms-still-wont-show-more-than-256-characters/#comment-1006 Jameslean Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:27:49 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/so-youve-changed-the-text-display-settings-and-ssms-still-wont-show-more-than-256-characters/#comment-1006 I don’t think you have to restart SSMS completely. The setting only takes effect for new query windows. If you’re in the middle of writing a query just copy it to a new query window and it should work fine.

– James

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