I agree, I have been using the management studio, and the main reason why i asked about some of the other editors out there is that I would like to be able to use them to replace notpad as well and I do need to do some powershell coding in the near future, so I would not like to be bound by SQL only editors. I will try the ones mentioned and if i must I will use an editor made extensively for SQL and then use on of the other 3rd party editors for other coding projects.