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  1. Shortcut for Switching Styles

    Can you add "choose style" or "switch style" to the commands section, as a drop down, so that it can be added to the SQL PROMPT toolbar? Or possibly as a hot key menu option?

    I switch styles often. There's the style I like to work in, a style suited for debugging, and the style that management likes the code to be posted with (in TFS.) Being able to switch between them is very helpful. but, going to SQL Prompt --> Options --> Styles --> Selecting Style "with the mouse" is time consuming.

    Thanks for your consideration!

    Lawrence Barnes

    10 votes

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    completed  ·  Thomas Walsh responded

    We’ve released support for quick switching of active styles in version 8 of SQL Prompt. You can right click in the editor window, select `Active Style` and then choose the style you want to switch to.

    You can get the latest version of SQL Prompt from https://www.red-gate.com/products/sql-development/sql-prompt/.

    If you are still keen to have this functionality available via a hotkey, please let us know by opening a new suggestion.

    Kind regards,

    The Prompt Team

  2. Remove extra space between statements option is Needed

    SELECT
    *
    FROM
    Temp1

    --Remove this kind of extra spacing between statements option is Needed

    SELECT
    *
    FROM
    Temp2

    --Remove this kind of extra spacing between statements option is Needed

    SELECT
    *
    FROM
    Temp3

    10 votes

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    4 comments  ·  Format SQL  ·  Admin →
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  3. try snippet

    It would be nice to have a TRY CATCH snippet.

    1 vote

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  4. Exclude Identity Field From Auto Generated Insert/Values Code For Table Variables

    If a table variable or temp table has an identity field, I do not think this field should show up in the auto generated insert into/values list:

    DECLARE @Table TABLE (TableId INT IDENTITY(1,1), Data VARCHAR(100);

    INSERT INTO @Table
    ( [TableId] -- This field show not show up by default in the insert list
    , [Data] )
    VALUES ( 0 -- TableId - int -> This field show not show up by default in the insert values list
    , '' -- Data - varchar(100)
    )

    -- Temp Table
    CREATE TABLE #Temp (TableId INT IDENTITY(1,1), Data1);

    INSERT INTO [#Temp] ([TableId],
    [Data1]) VALUES…

    2 votes

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  5. Surround list of values with quotation marks and separate by commas

    when creating a WHERE colname IN ('a','b','c')

    it would be nice if you could paste a set of rows from excel into SSMS and then add the quotation marks and commas

    i.e.

    A
    B
    C

    becomes

    'A',
    'B',
    'C'

    7 votes

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  6. Add 'N' to unicode type literal strings

    Hi,

    Is it possible to format below code

    DECLARE @a VARCHAR(200);
    SELECT @a = 'asdf';
    DECLARE @b NVARCHAR(200);
    SELECT @b = 'asdf';

    to

    DECLARE @a VARCHAR(200);
    SELECT @a = 'asdf';
    DECLARE @b NVARCHAR(200);
    SELECT @b = N'asdf';

    Thanks.

    16 votes

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    completed  ·  Andrei Rusitoru responded

    Hello,

    We have added this feature in SQL Prompt 9.1.4.4532
    It can be found under Prompt → Options → Style

    It currently only works with variable assignments for variables declared in the same script.

    If you would like to see us expand this more please let us know by creating a new idea.

    Kind Regards,
    The Prompt Team

  7. Remove Red Gate toolbar

    This is an old problem that just won't go away.

    The Red Gate toolbar that holds the SQL Prompt icons (Tab History, Add-ins, SQL Test, SQL Search) will not persist it's state in SSMS. You can move it, but it comes back to the same place on it's own row. You can delete it, but it comes back again.

    Recommend (a) making the toolbar's state persistent in SSMS and (b) added a feature to the Options menu that allows the user to remove it.

    Using SQL Prompt 6.4.0.678 on SSMS 11.0.5058.0 (2012).

    6 votes

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  8. IF statement format options

    Please provide the option to format IF statements as follows, based on the format settings sample.

    IF @productType IN ('a', 'b', 'd', 'g', 'i', 'O', 'Q', 'X', 'Z') BEGIN

    ----IF @cost <= @compareprice BEGIN

    --------PRINT 'Less than $' + CAST(@compareprice AS varchar(20))

    ----END ELSE BEGIN

    --------PRINT 'Exceeds $' + CAST(@compareprice AS varchar(20))

    ----END

    END

    3 votes

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  9. Aggregate Functions wrongly put in square brackets

    I think I 've found a bug...
    If you Format this SQL

         DECLARE @Translations TABLE
        (
          [FundTypeId] INT NOT NULL ,
          [ColumnName] NVARCHAR(128) NULL ,
          [ColumnValue] NVARCHAR(256) NULL ,
          [InsertedAt] DATETIME NULL ,
          [InsertedBy] NVARCHAR(256) NULL ,
          [LastUpdatedAt] DATETIME NULL ,
          [LastUpdatedBy] NVARCHAR(256) NULL ,
          PRIMARY KEY ( [FundTypeId] )
        );

     SELECT *
     FROM   ( SELECT    [pt].[FundTypeId] ,
                        [pt].[FundType] ,
                        [pt].[Comment] ,
                        [pt].[InsertedAt] ,
                        [pt].[InsertedBy] ,
                        [pt].[LastUpdatedAt] ,
                        [pt].[LastUpdatedBy]
              FROM      @Translations AS [tmp] PIVOT ( MAX([ColumnValue]) FOR [tmp].[ColumnName] IN ( [FundType], [Comment] ) ) AS [pt]
            ) AS [tmp];

    ... it will break the code as the MAX function of…

    1 vote

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  10. Add a menu option to decrypt stored procedures

    It would be useful to add an option to decrypt encrypted stored procedures and display the decrypted SQL in a query tab.
    We often work with encrypted SP's on customer databases, but when there is a bug report, it is often hard to see what is going wrong.

    1 vote

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    completed  ·  Aaron Law responded

    Hi Dirk,

    This is already available in the latest SQL Prompt. It’s on by default but just to double check it’s enabled for you, there’s a checkbox at the bottom of the behavior page in the options named “Decrypt encrypted objects”.

    Thanks,
    Aaron.

  11. Add wildcards to tab coloring

    Would be useful if tab coloring supported wildcards
    eg *.sql = production
    *.dev = development etc

    1 vote

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    completed  ·  Aaron Law responded

    Hi Nigel,

    Wildcards are already supported for tab coloring in the latest version of Prompt. Just use a * for the wildcard in either the server or database column on the tab color options page. If you’re having any problems with this, please send me an email: aaron.law@red-gate.com

  12. Inserting the AS keyword for aliases

    It would be nice if one could click a button and get the AS keyword between an object name and its alias. This would help with code that doesn't use AS to separate the two. And would also help readability.

    Thanks.

    4 votes

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    completed  ·  Andrei Rusitoru responded

    This feature was released in version 7.3 of SQL Prompt.

    If there are any missing features please let us know by creating a new suggestion.

    Kind Regards,
    The Prompt Team

  13. Add Comment Block to Surround With choices

    Can you add a comment block /* */ to the Surround With choices? It would be of great use.

    I also like the idea of adding Surround With options to the snippet editor where one could specify the before and after.

    The example one person gave was Surround With ISNull( <highlighted column> ,0)

    9 votes

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  14. highlight all columns and filters for a table alias when that alias is selected

    when selecting a particular table alias, can you highlight all places where that alias is being used like in notepad++

    5 votes

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  15. "d" in "order by" should prompt with "desc", not "dbcc"

    Currently if you type a query like this:

    select *
    from sys.objects o
    order by o.name d[CURSOR]

    the popup consists of dbcc, deallocate, declare, delete, deny, desc, disable trigger, drop, dump.

    While that is probably technically accurate, it would be much more helpful to make "desc" the first entry in the list, because it's what I'm typing 100% of the time.

    1 vote

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  16. Better SQLXML Support....

    SQL XML is a great tool that gets very little support. When I am on an XML type variable...the intellisense isn't great....AT ALL. Doing something like:

    declare @xml XML;
    set @xml = '<Tests><Test><Id>1</Id></Test></Tests>';

    select @xml.value --This doesn't have intellisense. It will try to capitalize .value to .VALUE which isn't correct.

    So better SQL XML support would be nice.

    1 vote

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    completed  ·  Aaron Law responded

    Hi Mario,

    In your example “value” will be suggested and left as lowercase in the latest version of Prompt 6. If you’re still having problems even on the latest version please contact support as you may have hit a bug.

    Thanks,
    Aaron.

  17. RECEIVE statement - Format SQL ignores

    ;
    RECEIVE TOP(1)
    @h = conversationhandle,
    @t = message    typename,
    @b = message    body
    FROM SimpleQueueTarget

    From the Service Broker Workbench on Simple Talk.

    It only moves the semicolon to a separate line. No errors. Ignores "comma at start".

    And, yes, the @'s above probably start in column 1, when they're actually in col 5.

    1 vote

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    completed  ·  Andrei Rusitoru responded

    This feature was released in version 8 of SQL Prompt.

    If there are any missing features please let us know by creating a new suggestion.

    Kind Regards,
    The Prompt Team

  18. Auto complete/intellisense suggestions using PIVOT

    Using PIVOT the wrong alias is suggested in the intellisense window as it is the alias from the FROM clause, not the PIVOT clause that is displayed.

    The same goes for the auto complete, where field names is (automatically) prefixed with the wrong alias (I know this feature can be disabled...)

    Ex:[code]CREATE TABLE dbo.tbTest(
    Id INT,
    foo VARCHAR(3),
    bar FLOAT
    )
    GO
    INSERT INTO dbo.tbTest
    VALUES (1, 'foo', 2)
    , (2, 'bar', 3)
    , (3, 'foo', 4)
    GO
    SELECT *
    FROM (
    SELECT *
    FROM dbo.tbTest AS tt
    ) pvt
    PIVOT (
    MAX(bar) FOR foo IN ([foo], [bar])
    )p
    [/code]…

    3 votes

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  19. Add support for SQL CMD variables in SSDT/VisualStudio

    When using SQL CMD variables in VisualStudio/SSDT project to support Database references using a Database variable(ex Different database, same server). SQL Prompt is no longer able to resolve objects.

    SELECT a.* FROM [$(RefDataBase)].[dbo].[MyTable] a
    Then a becomes an "unresolved alias"

    1 vote

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  20. Tab Coloring

    Had this discussion with some folks at work today. SSMS Toolspack does tab coloring but it places a color band across the entire width of the query editor while SQL Prompt's tab coloring only colors the tab. The whole line is a much more obvious reminder. Be great if SQL Prompt did a similar thing. I realize Tab coloring is an experimental feature still.

    4 votes

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