• I've got something similar I wrote that I use. Possibly worth pointing out that you can bind your own stored procedures to keys using "Customise" in SSMS and QA (e.g. Options -> Environment -> Keyboard in SSIS). I guess like the author, I want something that shows the information that I think is more useful to me than alt-F1 / sp_help gives me. For example, my equivalent of alt-F1 gives the corresponding "CREATE TABLE" and "SELECT" statements for the table, which I can then just copy, paste and edit, and shows the metadata descriptions of the fields.

    I think the general point though is that you don't have to live with the metadata tools and procedures they give you - there is ample scope to extend them a bit to suit yourself better.