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title: Verify Queries
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# Verify Queries (Visual Database Tools)
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To avoid problems, you can check the query you have built to ensure its syntax is correct. This option is especially useful when you enter statements in the [SQL pane](../../ssms/visual-db-tools/sql-pane-visual-database-tools.md).  
  
Some notes to keep in mind about verifying queries:  
  
-   A statement can be valid, and therefore be verified successfully, even if it cannot be represented in the **Diagram Pane** and **Criteria Pane**.  
  
-   SQL Verification can detect some, but not all SQL errors. If a query contains an error not detected during SQL verification, the database will detect the error when you run the query.  
  
-   Queries that contain parameters cannot be verified.  
  
### To verify an SQL statement  
  
-   Right-click in the **SQL Pane**, and select **Verify SQL Syntax** from the shortcut menu.  
  
## See Also  
[Run Queries (Visual Database Tools)](../../ssms/visual-db-tools/run-queries-visual-database-tools.md)  
[Perform Basic Operations with Queries (Visual Database Tools)](../../ssms/visual-db-tools/perform-basic-operations-with-queries-visual-database-tools.md)