The I-beam has disappeared. It's starting to make it exponentially harder to type not knowing where I am in the query. If someone knows a fix that would be awesome.
SQl Managment Studio 18 - Blinking Text Cursor hidden in Query
I encountered same issue with the OP and my SSMS doesn't have any add-ins and up to date. I have to copy all, open a New Query then paste to solve the issue.
A bit of a whack but this works! I was assuming I pressed a key and it disappeared. Tried alt key too but nope –
Micrometeorology
Just close the management studio and reopen it.
I was able to open a new tab and the cursor was back. –
Headspring
You may have hit the alt key; just pressing alt brings it back up.
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Rom
You have any add-ins installed? (try disabling them) Also try to load latest service packs for SSMS/Windows.
I actually opened a new tab which solved the problem, no need to restart the Application.
If you see your cursor changing its size and shape when you hover around this yellow line in SSMS, then you probably have clicked while on this yellow line, which changes the cursor type and makes it all weird and vintage. Just go back there and click again, you should be fine.
Pressed the insert key and it worked. Hope it works for you too!
In the SSMS query, pressing Shift and Insert fixed it for me.
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