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  1. Add rule for deprecated DATABASEPROPERTY

    3 votes

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  2. My default preference is to maintain the ON keyword without a new line. I would like to be able to CONDITIONALLY place the ON keyword on a new line if, and only if the ON keyword together with the associated ON condition exceed a configurable wrap threshold.

    Example:
    -- Yield this >>>>
    SELECT *
    FROM Person.Address
    INNER JOIN Person.StateProvince
    ON StateProvince.StateProvinceID=Address.StateProvinceID
    -- >>>> instead of

    SELECT *
    FROM Person.Address
    INNER JOIN Person.StateProvince ON StateProvince.StateProvinceID=Address.StateProvinceID
    -- Assuming the JOIN clause exceeds the wrap length
    -- <<<

    This is particularly useful if the "Place JOIN table on new line" is NOT selected…

    3 votes

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  3. Find all occurrences of your search string in the results in datagrid mode. I know I should and could do this in SQL but sometime it is handle to find the customers name in a large set of rows.

    22 votes

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  4. Simple statements do not flag this:

    WITH CTE1 AS (SELECT TestColumn FROM dbo.TestTable)
    SELECT a.TestColumn FROM CTE1 a
    INNER JOIN CTE1 b ON a.TestColumn = b.TestColumn;

    However, more complex statements do:

    WITH CTE1 AS (SELECT TestColumn FROM dbo.TestTable),
    CTE2 AS (SELECT TestColumn FROM CTE1),
    CTE3 AS (SELECT TestColumn FROM CTE2)
    SELECT CTE3.TestColumn FROM CTE3
    INNER JOIN CTE2 ON CTE3.TestColumn = CTE2.TestColumn;

    In the final select clause, both CTE2 and CTE3 are flagged with 'Use alias for all table sources' (ST010).

    Seems a bit OTT to suggest references to CTEs are aliased? I accept that a CTE defines, in relational terms,…

    4 votes

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  5. When I hover over an object and get the pop-up script for that object (proc/view/function) I would like the ability to have the script default to ALTER instead of CREATE.

    99.9% of the time I manually have to edit the Create to be an Alter, this would save SO MUCH time.

    14 votes

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  6. It would be nice if the IN clause were formatted like a logical function that returns a value so that it followed the options and rules for parentheses and were indented according to its place in the logical expression. (paying attention to the ANDs and ORs if present)

    2 votes

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  7. My Name is Waleed Abrar and my license number is. I am actively looking of Static TSQL Analysis and I was really happy with the SQL Prompt. I have done some analysis and implemented some test cases. It works really good working live and parallel to development . I want to ask if it’s possible to do an offline analysis and get a HTML or Excel report for a particular database about the TSQL code Quality inside the DB. For Example I can select the Database ‘XYZ’ and then click Analyze static code. It will give me a report back…

    2 votes

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  8. Stop raising EI028 when adding columns using style:

    ALTER TABLE dbo.MyTable
    ADD TestColumnB CHAR(1) NOT NULL,
    CONSTRAINT DFMyTableTestColumnB DEFAULT ('B')
    FOR TestColumnB;

    2 votes

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  9. Arithmetical expressions and compound logical expressions all consist of operations and expressions with parentheses and orders of precedence. All of these should have the options for aligning operands, aligning parentheses, adding parentheses to make the default orders of precedence explicit. All expressions are subordinate to clauses so they should be indented under WHERE, ON, SELECT, WHEN.

    1 vote

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  10. sometimes I need to just change the casing of letters in a field name (e.g. a field has GUID and I want to make it Guid). smart rename does not allow me to change the name if the new name is exactly the same saying that a column with this name already exists.

    so I change the name to GuidXXXX and then on the generated script remove the XXXX and the script runs just fine.

    I think smart rename should not warn that the name exists if I am just changing casing of the name

    8 votes

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  11. Create a Select/Update/Insert/Delete procedure by rightclick a table.

    With option to select columns for each statement.

    34 votes

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  12. I am in the process of converting many Stored Procedures to UDFs (for various reasons).

    One thing that is irritating is that these SPs often use the SELECT x, y, z INTO #tempTable pattern.

    Would that be possible for you to generate the equivalent DECLARE @tempTable TABLE ( x TYPE,y TYPE,z TYPE) statement?

    That would have proven to be very helpful!

    2 votes

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  13. Add to the Results To options an Excel Like grid that presents the results i8n a grid but allows for Excel like functuionality without re-executing the query.

    I often am sending my data (via copy & paste) to Excel for aditional reserahc because the query takes a long time to run and I alrady have the core data I needd, I just need to fin tune it bu re-sorting or even re-aggregating the data differently.

    It wulod be a killer plus if Microsoft simply reaplced the existing SSMS Grid with a mini-version of Excel but since Thats not likely any…

    8 votes

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  14. Convert selected CODE or a complete stored procedure to Dynamic SQL Code.

    16 votes

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  15. The reason I would like to see the folders is strictly for organizational purposes. I have so many procedures and tables in one database that I have to scroll through them all to find what I’m looking for. If I could organize by schema (or however I choose) and very quickly and jump back and forth between the different folders, that would help me out tremendously. The SQL filter function is so slow when going back and forth.

    What if I could organize sql instances that I'm connected to in one SSMS. Production and Development folders?? Just another thought.

    18 votes

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  16. Show a visual indication when open transactions exist in a query window (@@TRANCOUNT > 0)

    It could be changing the background color of the query window, and a number in the status bar showing the current transaction depth or something like that.

    35 votes

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  17. Template based formatting.
    Select your text and right click, format according to template... then select the appropriate template of your choice.

    8 votes

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  18. Add the ability to exclude columns from appearing in the auto-generated INSERT statements. I have to manually remove certain columns every time.

    9 votes

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  19. Coloring the Tabs is very nice. I would love to have the database/server icons be colored (or at least a small colored dot on them) so I could see at a glance in Object Explorer what server the database is on.

    32 votes

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  20. Extended Events is a great feature in SQL Server. Without support for this in SQL Prompt makes it incomplete.
    I know we have a GUI for it in SQL Server 2012. But it will quite sometime before everybody is on the latest version of SQL Server

    14 votes

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