Brent Ozar shares his configuration settings for SQL Server Management Studio:
Under Query Results, SQL Server, Results to Grid, I change my XML data size to unlimited so that it brings back giant query plans. (Man, does my job suck sometimes.)
A lot of presenters like to check the box for “Display results in a separate tab” and “Switch to results tab after the query executes” because this gives them more screen real estate for the query and results. I’m just really comfortable with Control-R to hide the results pane.
And I just went and removed a bunch of menu bar icons I never use… Good advice from Brent.