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  1. When redgate is writing the "in clause" for us based on selected cells it would be nice if it also put the column name in the clipboard when all fields selected are from the same column,

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  2. Currently Code Analysis does not implement all of the items that Find Unused Variables and Parameters does.

    Specifically I know it's missing:
    - Declared variables that are used before a value is assigned
    - Assigned values that are never used

    Ex.
    With this code:

    DECLARE @Test NVARCHAR(1)
    DECLARE @Test2 INT
    DECLARE @Test3 DATE

    SET @Test = 1

    SET @Test = N'Test' + @Test2

    Code Analysis will flag the DECLARE for @Test for having a NVARCHAR of size 1 and @Test3 for not being used, but it will not flag @Test2 for being used before a value is assigned to it…

    6 votes

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  3. Currently we have a standard of placing new line before and after conditions with indent accordingly such that:

    a=1
    AND
    b=2

    Current version only does:

    a=1
    AND b=2

    This is pretty much the only thing lacking from being able to just auto format all our procedures with a single click.

    4 votes

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  4. Create Install Package for installing SQL Prompt in SSDT. SSDT is a VS shell, so Prompt should be easily incorporated.

    5 votes

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  5. Hello,

    So I love the suggestion feature where I'm able to type in an object and the code appears to copy. Home run with this feature I can't thank you enough for it.

    I was wondering if it would be possible to expand on it though.

    Here is a sample. I'm looking to alter an object, let's say a stored proc...
    I usually begin by typing EXEC <name> to trigger the suggestion for stored procs to give me the object.

    Once the suggestion finds the object, the script contents appears in a side window.

    Using the COPY button in the…

    1 vote

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  6. When you select a table from the intellisense list
    Precede the table name with the database name as well
    Currently it is only inserting the schema name in front of the table name
    i.e. dbo.<table name>

    It should be <database name>.<schema name>.<table name>

    2 votes

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  7. The list is useful to drive code positioning, but that's all it does. Rules like ST011 that go against authoritative SQLPass presentations are noise. Yes, we can click the SQP Menu, nav to manage, scroll down, and finally disable, save, then refresh... (out of breath!). Just right-click and Disable rule, which also refreshes the list. That kind of useful RC-Menu. And instead of having to go to the Rule Maint to see exactly what the rule is enforcing, RC-menu has "Show Issue Help" in a bubble, built in. And for those cases where a rule isn't to be shut down,…

    4 votes

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  8. We use a data warehousing strategy that creates potentially dozens of tables for multi-class entities in the data warehouse, so we have many tables that end in "core". This leads SQL Prompt to alias the object with a final "C" that we then remove manually. For example, our InstanceCore and Database_Core tables are aliased to "IC" and "DC" when we would prefer "I" and "D" respectively.

    Can SQL Prompt's Aliasing capabilities be extended to support "Suffixes to ignore" just like the existing "Prefixes to ignore"?

    1 vote

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  9. Sometimes line-endings get messed up by source-control (looking at you Git) and "intellisense" will give you lots of green squigglies that you'd rather not commit to the branch.

    A good menu option for SQL Prompt would be 'Normalize Line Endings' with a sub-menu selection of 'Windows' or 'Unix'. Then fire off a regex expression powered search and replace on the file. It's fairly easy to do manually with a Ctrl+Shift+F in Visual Studio, but in SSMS, it's more complicated to do so manually, I think.

    Git does this to me once in a while, and I have to open the…

    9 votes

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  10. I would like the ability to copy a set of items then treat them as separate items for formatting purposes. For example, say I grabbed these values from a results table.

    'A'
    'B'
    'C'

    I would want to be able to paste them with the formatting I'd use for an insert, so they would look like this:

    ('A'),
    ('B'),
    ('C'),

    As it works right now though, copying and using the $PASTE$ placeholder will generate this.

    '($PASTE$)',
    '(A
    B
    C)',

    1 vote

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  11. SQL Prompt's "Insert semicolon" function behaves weirdly when a CTE is a the start of a control loop. For example, if I have this code:

    IF (1=1) BEGIN
    WITH numbers AS (
    SELECT 1 AS num
    UNION SELECT 2
    UNION SELECT 3
    UNION SELECT 4
    )
    SELECT * FROM numbers
    END;

    SQL Prompt will format it as
    IF (1=1) BEGIN;
    WITH numbers AS (
    SELECT 1 AS num
    UNION SELECT 2
    UNION SELECT 3
    UNION SELECT 4
    )
    SELECT * FROM numbers;
    END;

    While the code runs, I think the semicolon after "BEGIN" makes very little sense. First, the beginning…

    3 votes

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  12. At the moment to purge old tabs you need to open the tab history window and scroll to a certain point and right click and choose "Remove tabs older than this"

    This can be a bit tricky so instead could we have a button (perhaps in options?) that will prompt you for a date and purge items last closed before that date.

    8 votes

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  13. It helps avoiding join on the same column (especially at inner join).
    Example:
    UPDATE A SET Column1 = B.Column2 FROM TableA AS A INNER JOIN Table B ON A.Column3 = A.Column3.
    It happens usually by accident. The statement should be:
    UPDATE A SET Column1 = B.Column2 FROM TableA AS A INNER JOIN Table B ON A.Column3 = B.Column3.

    14 votes

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  14. So, Starred Tabs have been added, which is 1/2 of the capability I asked for a while back with "pinned tabs". We can remove tabs from Tab History either:
    1 tab at a time.....100s of times per day for me
    Older than x date - which does NOT work for me, because tabs that I want to keep around aren't always used every day

    So, now that we can "Star" tabs, how about letting us clean up Tab History a little more cleanly. Such as:
    1 tab at a time
    Older than x, except Starred Tabs
    Older than x

    This…

    2 votes

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  15. I would like to only affect the placement of commas in a column list, without applying other formatting options. This would work similar to Ctrl-B, Ctrl-B to remove brackets or Ctrl-B, C to insert semicolons, in that no other formatting would take place.

    There are times I have a rather well-formatted script but it has been written with commas at the start of the line and I prefer them at the end. A new shortcut would toggle placing commas at the start or end of the line without affecting other formatting within the script.

    5 votes

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  16. I want to be able to keep my tab history open. I am rebuilding a lost development database and using search a LOT, but after I search, find a tab I want to look at more deeply or execute, the window disappears and my search predicate and place in the list of matching tabs is lost, so I have to enter search predicate and scroll back down each time. This is a VERY useful tool, but it would be so much more useful if I could just keep it open.

    16 votes

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  17. If I declare variables and assign them values (either in declaration or subsequent SET/SELECT statement, it would be very helpful if SQL Prompt, along with displaying the declaration (e.g. @MyVar int (Scalar variable) in the pop-up, would display the last know value. So, if my declaration was:
    DECLARE @MyVar INT = 123
    the popup would show something like @MyVar int = 123 (Scalar variable).
    I realize some might be rather long (string) or not displayable at all (e.g. table variables, cursors, etc.) but what appropriate showing the value that was set and last known could be very helpful in line…

    2 votes

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  18. With the deprecation of SQL Code Guard and it's replacement by Code Analysis there is one feature that we heavily used that is now no longer there, and that is the ability to run SQL Code Guard against the whole DB not just the query on the screen.

    This allowed us to investigate new DBs that we'd inherited to see what sort of cleanup we might be looking at as well as giving us the ability to see if anything had snuck in to our existing DBs without going file by file.

    I know there are other tools (like SQL…

    16 votes

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  19. When concatenating strings, it'd be nice to be able to align the "+" sign. The following is what I get now:
    SELECT CASE
    WHEN Col = 1
    THEN 'Col 1'
    ELSE ''
    END + CASE
    WHEN Col = 2
    THEN 'Col 2'
    ELSE ''
    END + CASE
    WHEN Col = 3
    THEN 'Col 3'
    ELSE ''
    END + CASE
    WHEN Col = 4
    THEN 'Col 4'
    ELSE ''
    END AS ConcatStr
    FROM #Test;

    But what I'd like to get is:

    SELECT CASE
    WHEN Col = 1
    THEN 'Col 1'
    ELSE ''
    END
    + CASE
    WHEN Col = 2
    THEN 'Col…

    2 votes

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  20. These are the typical formatting styles I use that I would like to see definable in SQL Prompt. Currently, I use a style that gets me close then manually format the remainder to the code:

    Regarding the desired format of

    1) SELECT, FROM, JOIN, WHERE, GROUP BY, HAVING, ORDER BY all lined up
    2) TAB after SELECT, followed by first 'column'
    3) Subsequent columns on separate lines and lined up with the first one.
    4) TAB after any CASE followed by first WHEN
    5) Subsequent WHENs lined up with first one
    6) TAB before THEN (i.e. indented one tab from…

    4 votes

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