Why is SQL Server 2008 Management Studio Intellisense not working?

Question

I\'m being driven to insanity trying to figure out why Intellisense just fails to work at all. The server I\'m using is local and is 2008, the database is set to 2008 compat

Answer 1

After finding this thread, I discovered that my Intellisense only broke after taking a database offline, and any offline database(s) on the instance would kill Intellisense.

In this thread, explaining that in order to restore Intellisense, you must

• take the necessary databases offline, then
• restart the server instance, and finally
• refresh the Intellisense cache.

This procedure has worked for me and Intellisense is now working again.