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  1. It would be cool if SQL Prompt was able to remove trailing whitespaces/tabs not only for T-SQL, but also for comments.

    It's not something crucial, but rather nice-to-have

    3 votes

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  2. SQL Prompt provides the ability to improve your on-the-fly coding according to standards and best practices defined locally or within the organisation.

    How about the ability to analyse an existing database and isolate problematic areas, code smells and provide not only recommendations but also the ability to refactor the database code based on rule-sets?

    This would be really great and a time-saver to improve the code quality in the whole database.

    Thanks, Jochen Kirstätter, MVP

    8 votes

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  3. Add option to leave semicolon on same line if statement only use one line.

    My idea is an additional to the idea captured in the "semi colon placed on new line" request.

    It would be nice to have checkbox for the semicolon-on-new-line option to not move the semicolon to a new line if the statement is ONLY one line.

    For example:
    SELECT TOP 10 * FROM dbo.Table
    ;
    should be
    SELECT TOP 10 * FROM dbo.Table;
    instead, but
    SELECT TOP 10 *
    FROM dbo.Table
    ;
    will remain unchanged by formatting.

    10 votes

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  4. 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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  5. Hi,

    it would be extremely useful to allow the user to disable a code analysis rule for specific cases and not just on a global scope.

    E.g.
    cast(cast(0 as binary) pops up the issue BP008 (CAST/CONVERT to var types without length) which my be correct for certain cases but not always.

    It would be very hand if I could tell the analyzer to not give any warning for this single line, perhaps by adding a pseudo comment like --##BP008 or similar.

    This comment would temporarily disable the warning for this single line/case but not for the rest of a script.

    15 votes

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  6. Microsoft SQL Operations Studio is in preview mode and shows a lot of potential. I would probably switch from SSMS right now if SQL Prompt was supported. Please add SQL Prompt!

    302 votes

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    SQL Prompt for Azure Data Studio is now in public preview!

    The aim of this public preview is to learn from the ADS community about how SQL Prompt can enhance your developer experience, adding improvements and new features based on your feedback.

    With SQL Prompt, you can use an extensive collection of code snippets to write your SQL code quickly and efficiently. You can also keep your code consistent using the powerful formatting capability, with the ability to customise the applied style to suit your preferences.

    We’d love to hear your feedback. You can get in touch with the team either via the new SQL Prompt in ADS forum: https://forum.red-gate.com/categories/sql-prompt-in-ads or email us at sqlprompt.in.ads@red-gate.com.

    Get started with SQL Prompt for Azure Data Studio now. Download it here: https://download.red-gate.com/EAP/SQLPromptADS.zip

  7. In SQL Prompt 8, multiple-line comment blocks (surrounded by /* */) are automatically indented to the SQL code surrounding them when formatting.

    Can you please add an option to preserve the indentation of these blocks? My team keeps most comment blocks left-aligned for consistency and readability, but SQL Prompt will automatically move them when formatting.

    This was not an issue in SQL Prompt 7, so all of our comment blocks are now moving when upgrading to SQL Prompt 8 and there is no option to preserve them. Thank you.

    23 votes

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  8. Complex multi-line statements are much easier to read when separated by an empty line above and below them. Please add an option to turn on "Empty Line Above/Below Multi-Line Statements".

    5 votes

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  9. When using SQL server 2016 with a database that has it's compatibility level set to 2012, I'm still being offered auto complete options for 2016 features. e.g. string_split

    SQL Prompt needs to detect the database compatibility level and adjust it's intellisense accordingly.

    3 votes

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  10. I wanted to put this one level up (all Redgate), but did not see a way to do that.

    When you guys release an update, I do not see any choice but to open each tool, one at a time, and check to see if it was updated. There should be one interface that I can open that will check every product I have installed and install the appropriate updates. The current is much more time consuming than it should be and extremely inconvenient. If you have such a tool now, it should be easier to find.

    I thought Redgate…

    17 votes

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  11. When doing an INSERT INTO it would be nice if you could type INSERT INTO TableName (*) then if you tabbed after the * it would expand out all the columns for that table.

    9 votes

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  12. Allow me sort or filter the tab history list based on the environments that I have defined.

    5 votes

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  13. It would be very helpful if there was an outline for the script being edited. Say, a script has many "CREATE PROC"s. We could have a tree or a list or a drop-down, to view a list of CREATE PROCs and click to scroll to the section.

    If a tree style is selected, this could be expanded into seconds inside each PROCs.

    3 votes

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  14. It would be nice to have an option under Formatting Style -> CTE to allow closing parenthesis behavior, just like the opening parenthesis one:
    - Place closing parenthesis on new line
    - Closing parenthesis alignment

    13 votes

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  15. Please add an option to align "then" keyword and the expressions.

    Current format:
    declare@fooidint=(case
    _______________________when@barId=7then2
    __
    ___________________when@barId=800then1
    __
    ___________________else5
    __
    _______________end
    _
    _________________);

    Suggested format:
    declare@fooidint=(case
    _______________________when@barId=7then2
    _
    ___________________when@barId=800_then1
    __
    ___________________else________________5
    _
    _______________end
    _
    _________________);

    14 votes

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  16. I really like the latest formatting flavours. Aligning the equivalency symbols in joins is nice, but could I also align the ON keyword? Or pick which one I want to align on.

    SELECT *
    FROM table1 a
    JOIN Table2 b__ON a.foo = b.foo
    JOIN Tab3 c
    ___ ON b.fa__= c.fa

    24 votes

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  17. We use a lot of dynamic SQL. I'd like to be able to format dynamic SQL that is in a string, eg. and NVARCHAR. e.g.

    Input: DECLARE @sql NVARCHAR = '

    SELECT foo from bar where foobar = ''foobarred''
    '

    I'd like to be able to highlight the text inside the NVARCHAR for formatting. SQL Prompt would need to handle doubled quotation marks as in my example above.

    19 votes

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  18. Visual Studio Code has the ability to connect to SQL servers and execute scripts. It would be nice if SQL Prompt was available for Code as well.

    84 votes

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  19. Option to sync/store tab history in the cloud, network share, or online share (aka One drive, Google drive, dropbox, etc.) That way you don't loose your history when you upgrade or change your computer and have to start all over again. It would also be nice to be able to sync between multiple computers.

    39 votes

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  20. Provide an option in Styles to let the right hand side of clauses in UPDATE statement be aligned.

    Example:

    UPDATE~~EDSV
    SET~~~~~eDocSessionID~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~=~CONSV.eDocSessionID~,
    ~~~~~~~~eDocSessionKey~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~=~CONSV.eDocSessionKey~,
    ~~~~~~~~eDocSessionValue~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~=~CONSV.eDocSessionValue~,
    ~~~~~~~~eDocSessionValueTextStyleOverride~=~CONSV.eDocSessionValueTextStyleOverride~,
    ~~~~~~~~eDocSessionValuePositionOverride~~=~CONSV.eDocSessionValuePositionOverride~,
    ~~~~~~~~eDocSessionValueLockdown~~~~~~~~~~=~''
    FROM~~~~eDocStd2.dbo.eDocSessionValues~AS~EDSV
    ~~~~~~~~INNER~JOIN~#changedOrNewSessionValues~AS~CONSV~ON~CONSV.eDocSessionID~=~EDSV.eDocSessionID
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~AND~CONSV.eDocSessionKey~=~EDSV.eDocSessionKey;

    44 votes

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