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  1. We have a database that has Foreign keys, but doesn't have them set up as such via it's schema. It's a legacy system and there are technical reasons we aren't going to go back in after the fact and define them. I can't imagine we're the only place to ever run into this, it would be nice to have some sort of config file where you could manually set up things like that.

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  2. When collapsing CASE expressions shorter then XXX, the END has no space if there is a preceding parenthesis.

    Example1 = CASE t1.Col004 WHEN 1 THEN t1.Col006 END,
    Example1 = CASE t1.Col004 WHEN 1 THEN TRY_CONVERT(int, t1.Col006)END

    4 votes

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  3. When collapsing CASE expressions shorter then XXX, the END has no space if there is a preceding parenthesis.

    Example1 = CASE t1.Col004 WHEN 1 THEN t1.Col006 END,
    Example1 = CASE t1.Col004 WHEN 1 THEN TRY_CONVERT(int, t1.Col006)END,

    0 votes

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  4. Merge Command Formatting

    For MERGE commands there is no way to make the conditional requirements with 'ON' follow the same style as JOIN's ON. I noticed back on 5/17/2017 there was a closed 'Merge command formatting options' through the User Voice, stating that an experimental feature was available for SQL Prompt 7.4. What happened? In my 10.1.7.15015, within the formatting styles, there is no area for MERGE like there is for JOIN.

    9 votes

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  5. I use global temp tables (##), and intellisense doesn't pick them up, even after a refresh.

    3 votes

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  6. Include a feature in formatting to include / exclude JOIN type.

    For Example
    LEFT OUTER JOIN would become LEFT JOIN and vice versa

    Not sure this is so useful on the INNER keyword but the OUTER would be useful where people have different styles but we want to standardise work.

    9 votes

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  7. Switching or connecting to another SQL Server instance requires several steps. It'd be nice if there was a drop down menu or keyboard shortcut to show a list of instances. The list could be frequently used or created manually.

    1 vote

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  8. In the suggestion box primary key/foreign keys are visually marked. I would like to see this in the objects definition box (Summary tab) as well.

    Also it might nice to be able to select columns in there and add those columns to the qury

    3 votes

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  9. I often need to have Order By added and the following enhancements will help (same as in the grupy by intellisent)

    • order by "Primary Keys" -> Order as in table
    • order by Select-list columns -> order as in the select list
    • order by Select list columns from table x

    All three would help to type less

    Thanks

    1 vote

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  10. I would like to set "not connected" tabs to a passive color like light gray to indicate they are not actively connected to a database. Current tab coloring is set by the connection, so this isn't possible. One possible implementation is to create an environment called "not connected" and then specifying NULL in the "SERVER" field.

    This would be especially helpful for those who use SSMS's dark theme with SQL Prompt, because "not connected" tabs become nearly invisible with a black background and black font.

    6 votes

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  11. Could see there are ranked suggestions, which is good.
    Can we take this to next level by letting user add custom ranking to suggestions to see those we rank always at the top but with a requirement that you need to enter at least a single letter so that your custom suggestions starting with that letter would be the first in order of display.

    Thanks!

    3 votes

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  12. Formatting a SQL batch which contains

    BACKUP DATABASE Databasename
    TO URL = N'URL'
    WITH CREDENTIAL = N'Credential'

    leads to

    BACKUP DATABASE Databasename
    TO URL = N'URL'
    WITH AS CREDENTIAL = N'Credential'

    the AS between with and credential is wrong.

    Please fix :-)

    3 votes

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  13. Be able to read through Dynamic Queries and pick up table creation code or any other columns so SQL Prompt will be able to list out the columns in any tables that were created in that sql.

    2 votes

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  14. Following the suggestions of rule PE019 (Consider using EXISTS instead of IN) leads to performance issues, by creating correlated subqueries. Even the documentation of the rule admits that there is no longer a performance benefit of doing what is suggested. Please remove the rule or allow the rule to be disabled across a team. At the moment, the disabling of rules is done per developer, and a developer who did not know to switch off this rule, followed the advice, creating a performance problem.

    3 votes

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  15. I use T4 to generate a significant amount of SQL code. It would be useful for purposes of readability especially, to be able to call the formatter from within a T4 build process.

    1 vote

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  16. Add option to prevent SQL Prompt from looking across DBs for joins. We have DB Servers with 5000 DBs on them. SQL Prompt struggles to try and evaluate possible cross DB joins. It'd be nice to be able to turn that off so that it only tries to do analysis on the currently selected DB.

    1 vote

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  17. It would be great to be able to script out a comma separated list of the column names from the result grid. Not the data values, but the colum names. Quite often i run queries that return columns from multiple tables and want to create an insert statement with named columns from that result set.

    A competitor has that capability and I use it dozens of times a day. Either by selecting all column names from the result set or just highlighting the ones that you want.

    20 votes

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  18. When saving/opening file automatically untabify it.

    (select all then edit|advanced|untabify selected lines)

    Some how, some way, despite telling everyone to set convert tabs to spaces we constantly get tabs in our SQL code. It would be really nice to just have it automatically convert to spaces so I can save a few clicks.

    5 votes

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  19. I'm a "messy" developer who leaves dozens of tabs open while I'm working on a project, only occasionally doing a bit of a spring clean by closing what I don't need. I only just realised I can do this in Tab History by filtering for Open tabs and right-clicking on a tab entry and choosing Close from the context menu. And I love the fact that I get a preview just by hovering over the name so I can quickly decide whether or not to close each tab.

    I would like to see a cross (close) symbol added to the…

    5 votes

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  20. Would like the option to Script Object as Alter (F12) from the Object Explorer pane. So, for example, when I click on a stored procedure in the Object Explorer and click F12 (or right click and select Script Object as Alter), it would open a new tab with the stored procedures scripted as alter.

    2 votes

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