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  1. It would be very beneficial if I could search for objects with a certain schema across the databases I choose. I.e. SQL Search trigger on letter-sequences in schema names, just as in table or column names.

    As it is, I can only find those objects if they are referenced elsewhere with their schema given (e.g. a stored procedure or a view will give me a hint that a schema exists in a database in a galaxy, far, far away).

    12 votes
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  2. Allow multiple searches in many search tabs.
    I want to search two different things and have the search results side-by-side.

    7 votes
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  3. 3 votes
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  4. When I do a search, the results pane that contains the text of the object I currently have selected will highlight the search term within the text, but if the object has a large amount of text, I need to scroll and find it. A notch on the scrollbar, like what Google Chrome does with a find-on-page Ctrl+F search, will help with zeroing in on the term within the object's text.

    15 votes
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  5. The search facility doesn't stop even if you close the window and starts again with the same search. It doesn't have any button to stop the search if some inputs are wrong.

    25 votes
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  6. When showing results on a table definition, show the nullability defined for it as well as any default value. Now, I see three columns: name, datatype and computed value. Please add two more: Null and Default, preferably in the order: Name, Type, Nullable, Computed, Default

    6 votes
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  7. Ability to maintain settings between searches. When I switch back and forth and open and close it, it goes back to SEARCH ALL, but when I am working, I am usually focused on something and it's quite painful to have to reset the settings almost every-time., We need a checkbox option to PERSIST SETTINGS.

    When I am working on something I am usually working in one or two databases but we have 50 databases, I don't need to search all those all the time. I am usually looking for where column names are within tables, I love all the features…

    10 votes
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  8. Periodically I'll search stored procedure and functions for specific text and I'll get a lot of hits, only to discover that the hit was on a comment.

    For example if we're trying to remove a specific piece of code from all stored procedures, a DBA may make a comment "Removed XXX from stored procedure". Providing the ability to "Not search in comments" would provide a true list of areas that contain the offending code.

    19 votes
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  9. It would be useful to have the option to exclude disabled jobs from the search.

    4 votes
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  10. 1) The last dropdown just shows me the alias names I use to connect to databases so I have no idea which user I'm doing the search under which impacts results based on the privilleges. This should clearly show which user it's searching under please.
    2) I'm sat here right now, I've select 1 database to search against out of 300. Yet my search results coming back (after 20 minutes of waiting) keeps including ALL database. I've closed down the search window and tried again, same result. why?
    3) Needs to be able to export results from the search window…

    8 votes
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  11. I'd like to use my preferred monospaced font cosnsistent with SSMS. I cant find any option to change font in SQL search.

    It'll be absolutely great if I could change font for SQL search results.

    13 votes
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  12. Do not start indexing automatically but let user to start it.
    Our two database servers contain many databases. When I switch from one to another, the index is automatically started with the database dropdown box selected all databases as default. It crashes my SSMS a few times or when it did not crash, I need to wait long time to wait it to finish the indexing.

    72 votes
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  13. A set of defaults. When opened it always selects "All Objects". It would be nice to have a way to limit this to "X" by default.

    11 votes
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  14. Would be nice to have option Open in Excel the search result.

    11 votes
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  15. Export list of objects results in a search, to txt file o allow copy to clipboard the column with the objects name.

    18 votes
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  16. Similar to SSMS now where it highlights the side bar with each instance of the matched string, in the results window show me each instance that text was found.
    Also like the SSMS find feature, allow me to jump to each instance of the matching text within the page.

    14 votes
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  17. The product requires you to have at least read access to all databases on provided server... because when the product opens... and db access is lacking... then USER is failing login attempts on PRODUCTION SERVERS to which user has no access. This creates GREAT FRUSTRATION for DBA and AUDITing groups.

    32 votes
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  18. It would be useful to be able to export result set of SQL Search to a SQL script file (or any other format).

    22 votes
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  19. During installation, I cleared the option to send usage statistics back to RedGate.

    So imagine my surprise when the log file shows multiple "Usage reporting request made to" events!

    Respect your users' selections - if I choose not to submit usage reports, DO NOT SUBMIT USAGE REPORTS!

    8 votes
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  20. Add a stop/start button to the search process.
    If you change the criteria, it immediately starts searching for that criteria before you get a chance to change some of the other parameters.
    Worst case scenario it eats up all the memory and crashes SSMS if you search against "All Databases" on a production server.
    Give some control back to the UI.

    25 votes
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