2012 SQL Server Management Studio Intellisense Not Working

Question

Hi,
I have read just about every article and checked many options with SSMS and the Server.  The server is MS SQL SERVER 2012 SP1 Version 11.0.3339.0 X64.   SMSS is 11.0.2100.60.
I have refreshed the intellisense cache, made sure I wasn't in the SQLCommand Mode and that I had intellisense enabled under the Tools Options and Text_editor.
Intellsense worked great for me when I was running 2008 R2....now nothing, feeling frustrated.   Any new ideas on how to get intellisense back in line would certainly be appreciated.

Answer 1

We were having problems also with intellisense, as it completely stopped working on a SQL Server 2012 instance that was hosting over 100 client databases in a non-transactional development only environment.  We tried everything and nothing seemed to
work until I ran an optimize routine that included running DBCC DBReindex, sp_updateStats, and sp_Recompile.  This seemed to clean up what ever was blocking intellisense.  Now it is working with no problem.  I added a SQL Agent job that runs
once a week to perform this optimization.  We have not had a problem with intellisense since.
begin
    select identity(int,1,1) as [ID], sd.name as [DBName] into #Databases from master.sys.databases sd where sd.name not in ('master', 'tempdb', 'model', 'msdb')
    declare @DB varchar(128)
            , @SQL varchar(max)
            , @MinID int
            , @MaxID int
    select @MinID = min(id), @MaxID = max(id) from #Databases
    while @MinID <= @MaxID
    begin
        select @DB = DBName from #Databases where ID = @MinID
        print '*** Processing: ' + @DB + ' *****************************************************************************************************'
        set @SQL = @DB + '.sys.sp_MSforeachtable @command1="print ''?'' dbcc dbreindex (''?'', '' '', 80)"'
        exec (@SQL)
        set @SQL = @DB + '.sys.sp_updatestats'
        exec (@SQL)
        set @SQL = @DB + '.sys.sp_MSforeachtable @command1="exec sp_recompile ''?''";'
        exec (@SQL)
        set @MinID = @MinID + 1 --increment
    end
    drop table #Databases
end