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  1. User of SQL Prompt for some years now. Tab History was a "killer feature". I often have multiple instances of SSMS open, with a number of ad-hoc queries open not worth saving. When I log back in, for years, WITHOUT FAIL, ALL my queries, from ALL instances would re-open.

    Since "upgrading" to SQL; History, I am lucky to get one or two re-open. Complete pot luck. Even searching for known keywords to get them open again is hit and miss.

    I am losing a lot of productivity due to this downgrade. I have yet to experience any benefit from the…

    15 votes

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  2. Allow save and re-load a set of filters. We work in schemas by project and every morning starts with filtering all my objects by schema, and I would love to reapply filters as a set.

    2 votes

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  3. I've noticed that when I Expand * on a pivoted table, then the order of the columns gets reversed
    e.g.
    If I have something with a pivot
    Sum(Amount) for month_no in ([1],[2],[3]....)
    When the pivot result is expanded, it becomes [12],[11],[10]....
    Would be nice if the expansion would match the order that the columns was entered in.

    1 vote

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    0 comments  ·  Expand wildcards  ·  Admin →
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  4. At times you do not always have the luxury to have SQL Prompt installed on all machines. Hence, it is extremely useful if snippets can be exported to a plain text file, so that at least one has the ability to retrieve the much needed sql scripts quickly via plain text files. It would be of great help if each snippet is exported to an individual text file that should be named like the snippet name.

    3 votes

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  5. 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.

    1 vote

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  6. 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.

    6 votes

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  7. 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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  8. The Database drop down needs to be dynamic in width or allow us to pull it wider. It is extremely difficult trying to find the database I'm working on when I have multiple installed in a LocalDB environment.

    1 vote

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  9. At present, when I search (and I hate that the search opens as a new screen), I have to click "advanced search", and select object type of "queries" (I'm really not interested in the query history, I'd rather turn it off but there's no option to do that)

    The one thing that would be most useful thought would be to remember the advanced settings between uses - or maybe allow them to be saved as a search default. This would go some way to address the poor user interface changes that have made the new SQL History much harder to…

    8 votes

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  10. SQL Prompt should properly suggest table names or constraint names for DBCC CHECKCONSTRAINTS.

    The correct syntax would be:
    DBCC CHECKCONSTRAINTS('SchemaName.TableOrConstraintName')

    Currently, it suggests this way:
    DBCC CHECKCONSTRAINTS(TableName)
    which only works if TableName is in the dbo schema.

    1 vote

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  11. 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.

    8 votes

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  12. I've created a few different style templates and named them accordingly, but when I want to add them as buttons to quickly change between styles, there is just a list of styles with no label so I don't know what any of them are.

    So I have to trawl through and add each of them as a menu button until the one I want appears, which is incredibly frustrating and time consuming! When its on the menu bar as a button, it has the appropriate name rather than just "style" so can this be added to the add button menu…

    3 votes

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  13. I often need to wrap a column in a coalesce with 0.
    It would be swell if there was a feature where I could select a column, then either right click or Keyboard shortcut to have it wrapped in coalesce.
    E.g. select the word
    personCount
    and have it be replaced with
    coalesce(personCount,0) as personCount

    1 vote

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  14. i have file excel multi column about 100 column.
    I suggest feature, when i open excel, auto create struct insert table.

    2 votes

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  15. I usually enclose database and server names in square brackets.
    Instead of only removing the square brackets, you could change that option (keeping its keyboard shortcut) to toggle between adding and removing them.

    3 votes

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  16. Can we add option to have "WITH (NOLOCK)" in the Aliases tab in the Options

    2 votes

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  17. Add a feature that when provided an SP will enumerate every SP called with that SP and down the chain until the last SP has been listed.

    NOTE: It would need to take into account circular references in which case once an SP has been enumerated if it's found again it's listed but nothing else after since that will have already been done once.

    2 votes

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  18. The recent roll-out of SQL History was handled very poorly. SQL History isn't simply an update to Tab history else there would not have been the need for a name change. SQL History is an alternative feature meant to do what Tab History does (I hope) and more but on roll-out it made many of your paying customers not only angry because you replaced Tab history with it but because it wasn't ready for roll-out.

    In the future when you feel the need to replace an existing beloved feature with something different and not just an update, DON'T! Instead roll…

    3 votes

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  19. Tab History NEVER should have been replaced with SQL History, a very poorly received roll-out that angered many paying customers. The fact that Red-gate felt it necessary to re-brand the thing is indication enough that it wasn't simply an update to Tab history but a replacement. That said when you do something like this in a product people are paying for it should be rolled out as something new and not something that replaces an existing beloved feature.

    Perhaps after enough updates SQL history will be usable and thus tab history unnecessary but there's no telling how many updates that…

    20 votes

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  20. Snippet adds or updates are not refreshed until SSMS is restarted.

    Can you add a feature to auto refresh the cache of snippets or make part of the "refresh suggestions"

    3 votes

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