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  1. Command Line "Reformat All Files In Folder" and pre-Commit

    Opening over 2500 code objects to set a baseline format, required by a large customer, is a daunting manual task.

    Many of Red Gate's tools provide command-line functionality.

    Please add it to Prompt so we can bulk (re)format SPs, UDFs, Triggers. Integration into the commit-path (we use SVN) would be ideal for standardized check-ins (Commits).

    Can't recall whether a style is exportable... (License key awaited at new employer) Should be able to point to UNC location for the style to use.

    109 votes

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    28 comments  ·  Format SQL  ·  Admin →

  2. Improve SQL code formatting options

    90 votes

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    25 comments  ·  Format SQL  ·  Admin →

  3. Automatic semicolons

    Include an option when reformatting SQL to automatically add semicolons at the end of each statement if they are missing.
    While in most cases SQL Server 2005 and 2008 don't require this, the 2008 docs mention that a future version might.
    and it may also be helpful if trying to move code from SQL Server 200x to a dialect which does require them.

    85 votes

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  4. Refactoring INSERT into UPDATE

    I wish there where a shortcut/command to change a statement like

    INSERT INTO Mytable(Id,Code,Label) VALUES (@Id,@Code,@Label)

    in

    UPDATE MyTable
    SET Id=@Id, Code=@Code, Label =@Label

    Even if it looks trivial on this statement, doing it with a table with 10+ Columns might be cumbersome.

    79 votes

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    14 comments  ·  Format SQL  ·  Admin →

  5. Add options for CASE WHEN ELSE END

    I'd like to be able to configure a style for CASE statements using options like the following:

    • New line after THEN
    • New line before ELSE
    • New line after ELSE
    • ELSE match indent of CASE
    • END match indent of CASE

    It would also be nice to have a threshold setting (in number of characters) so the formatting settings are only applied if the length of a CASE statement exceeds the threshold.

    64 votes

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    9 comments  ·  Format SQL  ·  Admin →

  6. Disable SQL Prompt on certain blocks of code

    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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  7. Format SQL to Match Object Case

    If I had the table [Address] that had the columns StreetAddress1, StreetAddress2, City, State and ZipCode defined and the following existing code was formatted:

    SELECT streetaddress1,
    streetaddress2,
    CITY,
    zipcode
    FROM [address]

    I would like to see SQL Prompt match the case of the underlying object such that the results after formatting would be:

    SELECT StreetAddress1,
    StreetAddress2,
    City,
    ZipCode
    FROM [Address]

    This should apply to all underlying objects (procedures [name and parameters], tables [columns, index names (used in hints), etc., functions and views; and anything else I forgot). It should also apply to variables defined within a procedure (e.g. DECLARE @MyValue…

    63 votes

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  8. Indent comments consistent with code

    I'm finding my comments are hanging out all on their own after the rest of my code is formatted. I would request a feature to allow comments to indent to the same level as the code on the line below.

    56 votes

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    5 comments  ·  Format SQL  ·  Admin →

  9. Option to highlight parenthesis matches

    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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  10. Highlight --TODO and --HACK comments

    When a --#TODO: or --#HACK is written on our code, it could be helpful to highlight it in order to give an alert to the reader. In addition it can be very helpful to let the user to configure the pattern (i.e. --#MyTerm).

    46 votes

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    3 comments  ·  Format SQL  ·  Admin →
    completed  ·  Thomas Walsh responded

    We’ve released support for highlighting TODOs in version 9 of SQL Prompt as part of its new code analysis feature.

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

    We’re marking this request as completed, but if you feel strongly about being able to configure the term, please feel free to open a new suggestion.

    Kind regards,

    The Prompt Team

  11. Support a common intending option for SELECT

    Sample query (spaces marked with underscores):

    SELECTstaffId, staffName, a
    FROM    __personnel

    SELECT and FROM have whitespace after them to align the rest of the statement. This formatting style is tedious to maintain and almost nowhere to be found in real codebases or on the web. Please support the more common code style:

    SELECTstaffId, staffName, a
    FROM    personnel

    Just one space.

    41 votes

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    3 comments  ·  Format SQL  ·  Admin →

  12. Expose all formatting options in the UI

    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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    6 comments  ·  Format SQL  ·  Admin →

  13. Format CTE

    Allow users to specify how CTEs should be formatted. Right now I get:

    WITH cte
    AS (
    SELECT
    Title
    ,FirstName
    ,LastName
    FROM
    isales.dbo.salesteam
    )
    SELECT
    Title
    ,FirstName
    ,LastName
    FROM
    cte

    What I would like is:

    WITH cte
    AS
    (
    SELECT
    Title
    ,FirstName
    ,LastName
    FROM
    MyTable
    )
    SELECT
    Title
    ,FirstName
    ,LastName
    FROM
    cte

    26 votes

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  14. Warning on delete and update statements if no WHERE clause is specified

    It would be nice to get a warning on delete or update statements if you did not specify a where clause.

    23 votes

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  15. Change formatting of IF statements.

    When an IF is short and does not have a BEGIN END on it, have it format to a single line.

    Right now if you have

    IF @Parameter1 = 0
    RETURN -1
    IF @Parameter2 = 0
    RETURN -2

    I would like it to be:

    IF @Parameter1 = 0 RETURN -1
    IF @Parameter2 = 0 RETURN -2

    which would make it more compact.

    23 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Format SQL  ·  Admin →
    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

  16. "commarise"

    When copying a list of items from something like Excel, it would be lovely to have a feature in Prompt which would highlight the list, hit a key stroke and it would place quotes around each item and a comma after them.

    It would stop me bashing the quote + arrow + comma keys at the speed of light.

    22 votes

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  17. Column aliases alignment

    Allow alignment of column aliases in a Select statement.

    22 votes

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  18. SQL PROMPT 5 - Simple, but toggle indenting of else if statements

    Allow the option to NOT indent else if statements. Each of the ELSE IF statements gets further indented and for large SQL it becomes indented off the screen. I can imagine this pattern could apply else where but for this specific use case our STPs that have this condition i simply can't format the sql because it requires me to horizontally scroll. Allowing me to disable indenting ELSE IF statements would solve this problem instantly.

    21 votes

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  19. Unwrap sp_executesql

    Frequently I need to debug application generated SQL obtained via Profiler. Parameterized queries are often implemented with sp_executesql.

    I love using Format SQL to make a single line monster query into something I can actually read. But when it's stuck in an spexecutesql call the format function doesn't touch it. I have to:
    Remove "Exec sp    executesql".
    Remove the apostrophes around the query SQL. For big queries this is really painful, especially if the query itself contains apostrophes.
    Remove the apostrophes around the parameter defenitions.
    Move the parameter definitions to the top and add a DECLARE.
    Move the parameter…

    18 votes

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    7 comments  ·  Format SQL  ·  Admin →
    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

  20. Autoformat should not indent begin

    Instead of

    IF xxx
    BEGIN
    sss
    sss
    END

    It should format as

    IF xxxx
    BEGIN
    ssss
    ssss
    END

    for all cases where begin and end are used.

    18 votes

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