diff --git a/python/plugins/db_manager/dlg_sql_window.py b/python/plugins/db_manager/dlg_sql_window.py
index 67d157f3ff3..05f3ef9b9d5 100644
--- a/python/plugins/db_manager/dlg_sql_window.py
+++ b/python/plugins/db_manager/dlg_sql_window.py
@@ -62,11 +62,11 @@ class DlgSqlWindow(QDialog, Ui_Dialog):
     self.connect(self.btnClear, SIGNAL("clicked()"), self.clearSql)
     self.connect(self.buttonBox.button(QDialogButtonBox.Close), SIGNAL("clicked()"), self.close)
 
-
     self.connect(self.presetStore, SIGNAL("clicked()"), self.storePreset)
     self.connect(self.presetDelete, SIGNAL("clicked()"), self.deletePreset)
     self.connect(self.presetCombo, SIGNAL("activated(QString)"), self.loadPreset)
     self.connect(self.presetCombo, SIGNAL("activated(QString)"), self.presetName.setText)
+    self.updatePresetsCombobox()
 
     # hide the load query as layer if feature is not supported
     self._loadAsLayerAvailable = self.db.connector.hasCustomQuerySupport()
@@ -78,22 +78,18 @@ class DlgSqlWindow(QDialog, Ui_Dialog):
       self.connect(self.loadAsLayerGroup, SIGNAL("toggled(bool)"), self.loadAsLayerToggled)
       self.loadAsLayerToggled(False)
 
-  def showEvent(self, event):
-    QDialog.showEvent(self, event)
-    self.updatePresetsCombobox()
-
   def updatePresetsCombobox(self):
-    entries = QgsProject.instance().subkeyList('DBManager','savedQueries')
     self.presetCombo.clear()
+
     names = []
+    entries = QgsProject.instance().subkeyList('DBManager','savedQueries')
     for entry in entries:
       name = QgsProject.instance().readEntry('DBManager','savedQueries/'+entry+'/name' )[0]
       names.append( name )
 
-    names.sort()
-
-    for name in names:
+    for name in sorted(names):
       self.presetCombo.addItem(name)
+    self.presetCombo.setCurrentIndex(-1)
 
   def storePreset(self):
     query = self.editSql.toPlainText()
@@ -112,6 +108,7 @@ class DlgSqlWindow(QDialog, Ui_Dialog):
     QgsProject.instance().removeEntry('DBManager','savedQueries/q'+str(name.__hash__()) )
     self.presetCombo.removeItem( self.presetCombo.findText(name) )
     self.presetCombo.setCurrentIndex(-1)
+
   def loadPreset(self, name):
     query = QgsProject.instance().readEntry('DBManager','savedQueries/q'+str(name.__hash__())+'/query' )[0]
     name = QgsProject.instance().readEntry('DBManager','savedQueries/q'+str(name.__hash__())+'/name' )[0]
diff --git a/python/plugins/db_manager/ui/DlgSqlWindow.ui b/python/plugins/db_manager/ui/DlgSqlWindow.ui
index 21b07f74171..986869b4a1b 100644
--- a/python/plugins/db_manager/ui/DlgSqlWindow.ui
+++ b/python/plugins/db_manager/ui/DlgSqlWindow.ui
@@ -44,7 +44,11 @@
           </spacer>
          </item>
          <item>
-          <widget class="QLineEdit" name="presetName"/>
+          <widget class="QLineEdit" name="presetName">
+           <property name="text">
+            <string notr="true"/>
+           </property>
+          </widget>
          </item>
          <item>
           <widget class="QComboBox" name="presetCombo"/>
@@ -77,8 +81,8 @@
           <string notr="true">&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC &quot;-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN&quot; &quot;http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd&quot;&gt;
 &lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;meta name=&quot;qrichtext&quot; content=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;style type=&quot;text/css&quot;&gt;
 p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }
-&lt;/style&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body style=&quot; font-family:'MS Shell Dlg 2'; font-size:7.8pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;&quot;&gt;
-&lt;p style=&quot; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot; font-family:'Ubuntu'; font-size:11pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;</string>
+&lt;/style&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body style=&quot; font-family:'Ubuntu'; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;&quot;&gt;
+&lt;p style=&quot;-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;</string>
          </property>
         </widget>
        </item>