<p>New version of Management Studio (i.e. the one that ships with SQL Server 2008) finally has a Transact-SQL IntelliSense feature. However, out-of-the-box it only works with SQL Server 2008 instances.</p>

<p>Is there some workaround for this?</p>

[{'answer_id': 4576, 'author': 'Leon Bambrick', 'author_id': 49, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/49', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>There\'s no known trick \'in the wild\' for getting around this, other than using CTP-6 of SQL Server 2008 (in favour of the RTM).</p>\n\n<p>the reasons for removing backward compatability (and a lot more discussion besides) are provided at the <a href="https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=341872" rel="noreferrer">relevant feedback in microsoft connect</a>.</p>\n\n<p>edit: sorry i don\'t know where this ctp is available, if at all</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 14485, 'author': 'Sören Kuklau', 'author_id': 1600, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1600', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>Has anyone tried either patching SSMS not to check the version (perhaps try looking at the binary differences between CTP 6 and RTM?), or patching SS 2005 to pretend to be 2008?</p>\n\n<p>Unclean, I know, but I don't see any other way.</p>\n"}]
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