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  1. Add a feature for the formatting styles for CASE expression.

    Currently the formatting is so strange, it adds indents that don't make sense.
    It should have the possibility to add CASE on a completely new line.

    Please add :Start expression on a new line or something…

    2 votes

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  2. A nested join is indented additionally relative to the join that it is nested within:

    SELECT *
    FROM Person.Address
    --INNER JOIN Person.StateProvince
    ----INNER JOIN Sales.SalesTerritory
    ------ON SalesTerritory.TerritoryID = StateProvince.TerritoryID
    ----ON StateProvince.StateProvinceID = Address.StateProvinceID

    When joining the same tables but not writing them in a nested manner, there is no additional indentation:

    SELECT *
    FROM Person.Address
    --INNER JOIN Person.StateProvince
    ----ON StateProvince.StateProvinceID = Address.StateProvinceID
    --INNER JOIN Sales.SalesTerritory
    ----ON SalesTerritory.TerritoryID = StateProvince.TerritoryID

    It would be nice to allow the same amount of indentation that would be used if the join were nested to be used when it is not nested:
    SELECT *
    FROM…

    1 vote

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  3. It would be nice to have an option to specify different styles when there is one set of VALUES compared to multiple. For example, I would like to use "Compact, indented) when there are multiple sets of VALUES:

    INSERT INTO Employees
    ( id
    , FirstName
    , LastName
    , BirthDate )
    VALUES
    ( 2
    , 'Jane'
    , 'Doe'
    , GETDATE())
    , ( 3
    , 'Frederico'
    , 'James'
    , GETDATE());

    But compact when there is only one set of VALUES:

    INSERT INTO Employees
    ( id
    , FirstName
    , LastName
    , BirthDate )
    VALUES
    ( 2
    , 'Jane'
    , 'Doe'
    , GETDATE())

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  4. When using the Lists > "Place commas before items" combined with the CTE >" Place CTE name on a new line" options, the subsequent CTEs are getting placed on new lines after the comma is already on a new line, resulting in:

    WITH
    myCte
    AS ( SELECT 1 a )
    ,
    mySecondCte
    ( Col1, Col2 )
    AS ( SELECT
    'Test' AS ThisIsAColumn
    , 'Test2' AS ThisIsAnotherColumn
    FROM Person.BusinessEntityContact )
    SELECT *
    FROM myCte

    I believe this combination of settings should be resulting in:

    WITH
    myCte
    AS ( SELECT 1 a )
    , mySecondCte
    ( Col1, Col2 )
    AS ( SELECT…

    1 vote

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  5. The Whitespace > "Empty lines between statements" option doesn't appear to consider BEGIN/END as separate statements from the code between them, resulting in formatting like:

    WHILE @@ROWCOUNT > 20
    BEGIN
    IF @BusinessEntityID > 0
    DELETE FROM HumanResources.Employee_Temporal
    WHERE BusinessEntityID = @BusinessEntityID;
    ELSE
    BREAK;

    IF @OldId < 2000
    RETURN @OldId;
    END;

    Please modify the behavior or provide another option such that the following result can be achieved:

    WHILE @@ROWCOUNT > 20
    BEGIN

    IF @BusinessEntityID > 0
    DELETE FROM HumanResources.Employee_Temporal
    WHERE BusinessEntityID = @BusinessEntityID;
    ELSE
    BREAK;

    IF @OldId < 2000
    RETURN @OldId;

    END;

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  6. SQL Prompt - More Granular Suggestion. WHERE AND / CASE AND

    Would you add a couple of settings that give users more granular control in formatting SQL Prompt, please?

    In the CASE section, please add a section on how to handle Case AND statements, if we want the AND on a new line or the same line, and where to Align the AND.

    Also, please add a checkbox to align any '=' signs, like CASE WHEN colA = 1 then 1 else. I'd like all = signs to line up when there are multiple WHEN statements.

    Also, Please add a…

    2 votes

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  7. Currently, I can get SQL Prompt to format my SQL like this.

    SELECT
    tbl.name AS TableName,
    col.name AS ColumnName
    FROM
    sys.tables AS tbl
    INNER JOIN
    sys.columns AS col
    ON
    tbl.objectid = col.objectid

    This annoys me because the tables in the FROM statement are not aligned. I would like to be able to achieve something like below where the tables are aligned and the join and ON are indented from the table. So the tables are indented from the FROM and the INNER JOIN is indented from the table. Then, the ON can either be indented from table or…

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  8. Although used quite often, != is not ANSI compliant for NOT EQUAL. Have an option in SQL PROMPT Code Formatting to automatically replace != with the ANSI compliant <>.

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  9. I have the misfortune of trying to read an EF query. It would be extremely helpful if the «Format SQL» function in SQL Prompt could greatly reduce the verbosity and make the massively nested queries much, much easier to read.

    This is what I am doing by hand:

    • Replacing names like 'Extent6' with letters of the alphabet. I will go back later and replace these letters with more helpful names. Because the aliases of the table-valued objects are so long, so is there so much more text to plough through;

    • Removing aliases from columns whose names are identical.…

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  10. Allign all equals of a set part in an update statement

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  11. The new option would allow intending from alias (in alias = expression notation)

    5 votes

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  12. SQL Complete has a great feature to allow copying the result as html table. I wish this feature was available in RedGate. This is the feature I would use multiple times every day.

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  13. When using a synonym, the alias name generated is based on the synonym orginal table, not in the synonym name.

    So, if I have a synonym named sch1.ShortTableName that maps on AnotherDatabase.sch2.TableWithLongAndComplexName

    If I write

    SELECT * FROM sch1.ShortTableName

    It ends being

    SELECT * FROM sch1.ShortTableName AS twlacn

    It would be good that in case of synonyms, the alias name was based on the synonym name, not on the source object name.

    Or to keep backwards compatibilty, to have a setting that lets us choos either to follow the synonym name or the source object name.

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  14. Global formatting options like "Insert Semicolons", "Add brackets to all identifiers" etc should be part of a formatting style, this way changing a formatting style can also quickly switch between these options.
    Currently even after changing a formatting style these options on the screenshot below had to be manually changed one by one, it's inefficient to say the least.

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  15. I would love an option where, after adding an alias to a table, you can add it as a prefix to all columns coming from that particular table at once.

    Some keystroke like Ctrl + F2 would be nice.

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  16. SQL Prompt and SSMS do not have the option to create/remove block comments. This is a serious problem.

    We SQL Prompt users would love the option to add/remove block comments in SQL, between the marks /* and */, because they sometimes serve very different purposes.

    Inline comment options (Ctrl + K, Ctrl + C or Ctrl + K, Ctrl + U) are helpful, but they don't always do exactly what we need. Sometimes they can break things. See below.

    /*
    Sometimes we need block comments that cover multiple lines.
    Like this.
    /
    /
    Or comments where each line begins and…

    6 votes

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  17. Add an Enable checkbox in the Style Sheet | Global | Parenthesis settings.

    When SQL Prompt encounters the 'old style' usage of TOP, without parenthesis, automatically enclose the apparent 'what' in parenthesis.

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  18. Currently, FROM, WHERE, JOIN, and ODER can all be right-aligned to SELECT when formatting SQL. However, if you introduce a LEFT JOIN, the LEFT keyword is right-aligned to SELECT, and everything else is pushed over to make room for the JOIN. This is hideous and makes no sense.

    Instead, allow the entirety of "LEFT JOIN", "RIGHT JOIN", "INNER JOIN" and "OUTER JOIN" to right-align to the SELECT keyword.

    The attached images explain it better than I can.

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  19. Our dev group versions our styles. A small change between style versions can cause numerous changes in a single file making peer reviews more difficult than they need to be.

    My suggestion is to add an Format > Styles > Actions option to add style stamp. Implementation would be adding a comment with a style/version stamp at the top of the file when a format is applied. If the comment exists prior to formatting, that style will be used by SQL Prompt regardless of selected style. If the style/version is not found, the selected style is used. To change which…

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  20. Database-specific snippets.

    We have 80 or so databases scattered across 200+ instances and many tables have similar names or identical names with differing schemas: compare person.personpe, dbo.person & finance.personpe. This particular is extreme and there are more examples but the principle applies.

    I would love to be able to define pe as a snippet at a database level so that I can keep my snippet names short and so that I don't have to rename them manually when I am in SSMS with a lesser used database.

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