Scenes pair themes with some special effects that add pizzazz to your SSMS, reacting to a running query, an error, or an editor left alone. Carefully tuned to stay out of the way of real work, and off until you turn them on in SQL Shades Settings. See the docs for step-by-step instructions to enable and customize your scenes.
Spooky Night (Dracula theme)
A cobweb sits in an unswept corner. Bats fly while queries run, lightning strikes on errors, and spiders wait to creep in the moment you step away.
(Not a fan of spiders? [Wife: But it's so cute!] Fine, you can disable them in settings.)
Cathode Rays (Terminal Green & Amber themes)
Scanlines, a soft phosphor glow, and a blinking block caret, straight from the glory days of 9600 baud. Data rains down while queries run, static crackles on errors, and a scan band rolls through now and then, begging for a thump on the side of the monitor (it won't help... never did).
Neon Glitch (Cyberpunk & Cyberpunk OLED themes)
The text glows like a noodle bar sign at 3 a.m., the caret leaving a tail-light trail as you type. Code pulses with life while executing, glitches red on failure, and twitches a little on its own if you leave it alone long enough, as if to say: "Wake up, samurai. We have a query to run."
All three are ready to download today. Spooky Night and its Dracula theme are free for everyone through Friday the 13th, November 2026. Buy SQL Shades Pro to keep them, plus Cathode Rays, Neon Glitch and every future scene.
Try scenes for yourself
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