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I think Tab is the autocomplete trigger key in SSMS 2008. It's such a muscle memory thing for me that I'm not totally sure.

Edit:

Oh, sorry, now I understand what...

OK, just now found the options under Edit>Intellisense. After rebuilding the local cache, it seems to be working again.

But, my overall analysis still stands. This implementation of Intellisense...

Around 100 users hitting it every two weeks at about the same time, plus reporting off and on. Probably the bigger issue performance wise will be activity in other...