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  1. I have some longer Stored Procs and other T-SQL code and it appears that after some number of lines between the declaration of a variable, table, etc., and its subsequent usage, SQL Prompt no longer suggests the object.

    I would have sworn there was an option that I could configure to say how many lines of code to look-back for declared objects.

    Can we get that back?

    22 votes

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  2. Right now, if I have

    Select * From TableA As ta
    Inner Join TableB as tb On ta.Key = tb.Key

    and I "Press TAB to expand wildcard" only the fields that are in common get qualified with the table aliases. I would like to see an option of ALWAYS having the table alias added even if there is only one table.

    5 votes

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  3. Add the ability to change the snippet file folder location so as to share snippets between users,or machines for the same user. Of course the change would also need to check the folder for new snippets on startup and at the request of the user, the latter being important for those of us who leave ssms running for long periods.

    23 votes

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    completed  ·  Aaron Law responded

    We’ve released SQL Prompt 6 which includes the option to specify where snippets are stored.

  4. It would be great if the Options-forms was resizable (and the formsize was stored when closing the form).

    The 'Sample SQL' textbox would then be larger so all SQL code is visible with the formatting options that are chosen.

    6 votes

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  5. It would be nice, if the suggestions list for GROUP BY would include all the all the not aggregated SELECT list columns first.
    For ORDER BY, all the columns/aliases or their ordinal, and add checkbox for ASC/DESC.

    72 votes

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  6. In order for the braces/parenthesis highlighting to work currently, you must run the native Intellisense feature in SSMS, which creates some issues with SQL Prompt. If this were written in as part SQL Prompt, we'd be able to turn off Intellisense completely.

    51 votes

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    7 comments  ·  Format SQL  ·  Admin →
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  7. It would be nice if there was a way to import and export all SQL Prompt options like how you can import and export format styles.

    39 votes

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  8. There appears to be several items (BEGIN and END tabbing, table declaration placement, number of tabs for the join condition...etc.) that happen automatically when you click Refactor that Format SQL that you can't configure in the UI.

    39 votes

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  9. 3 votes

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  10. I would like to see an additional placeholder, maybe called $SUGGEST$, added to the snippets. This placeholder would position the cursor like $CURSOR$ and bring up the suggestions as if you hit CTRL-space. This would resolve an annoying issue that some of us see with our SSF snippet when we have a space after the FROM clause, and we are then required to hit CTRL-space to bring up the suggestion after expanding the snippet. (See forum post: http://www.red-gate.com/MessageBoard/viewtopic.php?t=12423)

    7 votes

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    completed  ·  Paul Stephenson responded

    As of SQL Prompt 5.2.8, the suggestions list will pop up automatically after a snippet insertion — if it would be sensible to do so (e.g. if the list would normally pop up if you typed the snippet out by hand).

  11. Would like improve tab & parenthesis placement of subqueries ...wherever placed in query ...be it in JOIN, WHERE, HAVING ...or even in SELECT ...ALSO would like option for 1st tabbed item in SELECT list to be the starting position on each row for each subsequent item which includess the placement of the 'prefixed' comma ...see below...

    BEFORE (Current formatting)...

    LEFT OUTER JOIN (
    SELECT
    f1
    , f2
    , f3
    FROM
    dbo.t1
    WHERE
    f9 = 'x'
    ) AS e
    ON e.f1 = b.f1
    AND e.f2 = b.f2

    AFTER...

    LEFT OUTER JOIN
    (
    SELECT
    f1
    , f2
    , f3
    FROM
    dbo.t1
    WHERE…

    17 votes

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    4 comments  ·  Format SQL  ·  Admin →
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    completed  ·  Andrei Rusitoru responded

    This feature was released in version 8.1 of SQL Prompt as part of our rework of parentheses formatting.

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

    Kind Regards,
    The Prompt Team

  12. I would like to suggest a ranking feature when the suggestions list appears. At my place of work, if I want to select out of the customer table I will often type 'cu' then tab the rest. However this is the snippet for creating a user. This is also useful when many tables begin with the same prefix, but one is used far more often than others. With ranking, the more an object is used, the higher up the list it will appear, like browser history entries in Firefox for instance. This would reduce the number of keystrokes necessary and…

    70 votes

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  13. In Format --> Tabs & Wrapping there is no option to keep and actual TAB character, instead a tab is converted to the user configurable number of spaces.

    This one is especially important for me because we have other code checking for TABS not (2,3,4,6,8) spaces. I now need to run a powershell script to convert the spaces back to a TAB.

    Would be great to allow TABS to remain as TABS.

    55 votes

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    completed  ·  Aaron Law responded

    We’ve released SQL Prompt 6 which includes support for tabs.

  14. using the example
    SELECT patientid FROM PTGEPATIENT AS pgp

    If I qualify object names (ctrl-B, ctrl-Q), I will get

    SELECT [pgp].[patientid] FROM [dbo].[PTGEPATIENT] AS pgp

    The alias is not enclosed in square brackets after the "AS" keyword. Would like to see that support for consistency (this is the standard I currently have in place)

    7 votes

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  15. Now that sql prompt and refactoring have been merged, how about a means of identifying where 'select ' has been used in stored procedures etc. including select a. and select bob, *
    I would have thought that you've already done the hard work, as SQL prompt already recognises these stars when it proposes to expand the column list.

    2 votes

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  16. Add a functionality of disabling SQL Prompt auto-formatting feature for blocks of code. Use SQL comments for 100% sql compatibility. Example:

    SELECT 1, 2, 3
    --<SQLPROPMT disable>
    select 4, 5, 6
    --</SQLPROPMT>
    select 7,8,9

    in the code above, the first and third statements would be auto-formatted but not the second one.

    It would be especially useful for very long scripts where a single formatting template is not an option.

    64 votes

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  17. Request space options for semicolons that are analogous to space options for commas (see SQL Prompt-->Options-->Format-->Commas & parentheses)
    p.s. -I really don't like the current auto-insertion of a space in front of the semicolons. At the very least, the semicolon formatting should remain untouched upon running Format SQL.

    17 votes

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    completed  ·  Paul Stephenson responded

    As of SQL Prompt 5.2.8, spaces are no longer inserted before semicolons during a Format SQL operation. We have not added a new option, as we have found no-one who likes the spaces to be there. If we receive further feedback to the contrary then we will consider adding an option in the future.

  18. Bring in support for SQL Azure for the application. If there are limitations where it cannot be done for Azure, possibly allow the user to set a local database as the model for an azure database to build the cache.

    43 votes

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  19. SQL Prompt 5 does not behave the same as SQL Refactor when it comes to formatting parameters that may be passed to a function, stored procedure, etc. You can increase the text wrapping, but that is not a full-scale solution. A better solution would be to allow you to want to align the parameters on new lines or put all parameters on one line ignoring the text wrapping limit.

    7 votes

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  20. I write a lot of stored procedures, and one of the nice things about SQL Refactor was that the names of new procedures would autocomplete. For example, "CREATE PROCEDURE WHATEVERPROCEDURENAME" would autocomplete "WHATEVERPROCEDURENAME" if I typed "GRANT EXECUTE ON W". It's a minor convenience to be sure, but it's also frustrating to see you favorite features disappear.

    3 votes

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