Saturday, February 25, 2012

Copy/Paste Fails in Management Studio

After opening Management Studio and doing some editing it is possible to copy/paste things in the query editor. After a while (working in another app) I come back to Management Studio and I can't copy/paste anything anymore. If I try to copy from the results window I get an error message that the clipboard operation did not succeed. If I try to copy from the query editor window it just doesn't copy. I can copy/paste in other apps without a problem.

I have seen this problem described in other forums so I'm not alone but I have 3 other computers where this problem does not occur. The one machine with the problem is hyper-threading. I wonder ....

Any other ideas? It is not the clipboard getting full but I can't rule out much else.

What is the configuration of those machines?

I believe the copy/paste cache is depend upon the operating system and resource usage, I don't see any problem with SSMS here. If it is a normal text then based on the memory usage that shouldn't be a problem.

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You are not alone, I had this happen to me also where the copy paste functionality quit working but under slightly different circumstances. I am running Windows XP Professional SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition SP2. I started working in SSMS yesterday and copy paste functionality was working fine. I did not shut down the program or my machine over night and when I logged onto my machine this morning to continue working in SSMS the copy paste functionality was not longer working. I have never had a problem with this functionality until today. I see that someone else reported it as a bug. I suggest that you also log onto the but report and validate that this is an issue. The link is: https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=126743

Maybe if everyone who has this issue reports it then someone will do more research to determine the cause of the problem.

GN

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