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title: Save Queries
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# Save Queries (Visual Database Tools)
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Save your query when you want to work with it later. Note that running your query does not save your changes.  
  
### To save a query  
  
1.  Create your query.  
  
2.  From the **File** menu, click **Save <query_name>**.  
  
    > [!NOTE]  
    > A newly created query will be given a system name. To choose your own name for the query choose **Save<query_name> As**.  
  
3.  The query will be saved in the Query folder of the project in Solution Explorer.  
  
## See Also  
[Create Queries](../../ssms/visual-db-tools/create-queries-visual-database-tools.md)  
[Run Queries](../../ssms/visual-db-tools/run-queries-visual-database-tools.md)  
[Discard Changes Made to Queries](../../ssms/visual-db-tools/discard-changes-made-to-queries-visual-database-tools.md)  
[Design Queries and Views How-to Topics](../../ssms/visual-db-tools/design-queries-and-views-how-to-topics-visual-database-tools.md)  
[Types of Queries](../../ssms/visual-db-tools/types-of-queries-visual-database-tools.md)  
[Perform Basic Operations with Queries](../../ssms/visual-db-tools/perform-basic-operations-with-queries-visual-database-tools.md)