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I am using SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio 2008), but I am missing some programming functions that exist in Eclipse for Java, such as:
Are there any tools for SQL Server that offer the same functionality?
Red Gate has a fairly nice suite of tools for working against SQL Server. Most of the ones that are assistive are plugins to SSMS, which I think you’re going to find is common to a lot of SQL Server tool suites. I haven’t used it, but Toad for Sql Server is used by one of the consultants here.
Looking at the two things you’ve mentioned, you may want to try viewing the execution plan for the query (Query->Include Actual Execution Plan) when executing it against the database or view dependencies (right click on object->View Dependencies), depending on your scenario. For most objects you can click and drag them into a query window to see the declaration.