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  1. Refactoring INSERT into UPDATE is definitely useful, but most of us are familiar with these. The complex MERGE statement is a mess, and a clean way to generate that would be fantastic!! Especially since you can figure out the primary keys, etc..

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  2. Themes, Dark mode mainly. Ability to add company logo when you log in via browser, like we can in reports.

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  3. If any stored procedures in the database are encrypted then "Find Invalid Objects" will get a null reference and prompt to restart SSMS.

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  4. When text is selected, Control D would create a copy of that text. If no text is selected, the current line of the cursor will be duplicated.

    Much like the behavior of Excel to carry down cell values (and a popular Visual Studio plugin), this will allow users to keep the text on their clipboard to paste it over part of the SQL that was just duplicated (like the contents of a where clause).

    4 votes

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  5. Options - Styles pane contains, for example, "Apply column alias style" and its drop-down. This does not belong as a universal style setting, among others.

    Please move it to the "Formatting Styles" configuration dialog.

    This is because many practitioners either do not know about the "alias = column" capability in T-SQL, or don't like it, or it's contrary to company standards. The ability to use this form, which IMO is more brain-friendly, ought to be on the Formatting page as it is, in fact, a significant style element.

    Thanks.

    4 votes

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  6. SQL Prompt is removing prefixes from column names used as parameters in function-calls. For example, if you use Cross Apply to a system function:
    SELECT *
    FROM sys.tables AS T
    CROSS APPLY sys.fnlistextendedproperty('blah','schema',schemaname(T.schemaid), 'table', T.name, null, null)
    It removes "T." from schema
    id and name in the parameters list. This means I have to add them back in if the column names are ambiguous. I don't see a setting for this, and have Prompt set to add prefixes to columns in the other clauses. So it'll add "T." to a column in the Select clause, and remove…

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  7. Currently, SQL Prompt either allows you to apply casing all at once with the Apply Casing Options, or it does it as you type if Enable Suggestions is turned on.

    Please add a feature so that I can have casing applied as I type, but without the suggestions.

    4 votes

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  8. I would like to be able to better automate our onboarding process for new developers by helping ensure their snippets folder, formatting style folder and default formatting style are correctly setup. Additionally we would like to be able to automatically import settings from UNC/source control for them. This reduces the inevitability that something is missed when trying to follow a setup guide we have to additionally maintain. Thanks!

    4 votes

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  9. It would be nice if the "Encapsulate as new stored procedure" logic used named parameter style so I don't immediately get ST008 in my code which calls the new proc.

    4 votes

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  10. Have SonarQube plugin that will do code analysis using your rules rather than TSQL or PLSQL plugins

    4 votes

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  11. (5 previous votes)

    Rather than individually defining aliases per table, add an option to use capitalised letters of tables/views to define an alias.

    eg.

    Customer = C
    mem_Membership = M

    cus_StateCustomer = SC

    aReallyLongTableName = RLTN

    view_CustomerMembership = CM

    https://redgate.uservoice.com/forums/94413-sql-prompt/suggestions/1931235-automatic-alias-from-table-name

    4 votes

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  12. There is no option in CLAUSES > JOIN to place AND on new line (Right aligned to INNER) and in Data (DML) there isn't an option to put AND on new line. Lots of tables I join on I am joining on 2 columns and I prefer to have the AND a.col1 = b.col1 on a new line as well.

    4 votes

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  13. Currently it shows the filename and servername, but it would really help to have the datetime of when it was executed. Sorting the columns would be an added benefit as well.

    4 votes

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  14. Simple statements do not flag this:

    WITH CTE1 AS (SELECT TestColumn FROM dbo.TestTable)
    SELECT a.TestColumn FROM CTE1 a
    INNER JOIN CTE1 b ON a.TestColumn = b.TestColumn;

    However, more complex statements do:

    WITH CTE1 AS (SELECT TestColumn FROM dbo.TestTable),
    CTE2 AS (SELECT TestColumn FROM CTE1),
    CTE3 AS (SELECT TestColumn FROM CTE2)
    SELECT CTE3.TestColumn FROM CTE3
    INNER JOIN CTE2 ON CTE3.TestColumn = CTE2.TestColumn;

    In the final select clause, both CTE2 and CTE3 are flagged with 'Use alias for all table sources' (ST010).

    Seems a bit OTT to suggest references to CTEs are aliased? I accept that a CTE defines, in relational terms,…

    4 votes

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  15. Within the Summarize Script pane, it would be helpful to differentiate between a SELECT statement (which returns output to the user) and a SELECT INTO statement (which creates a table and loads data into it).

    4 votes

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  16. I'm currently working on a database with some really complex calculations which are saved then in a table. Putting these formula in the MSDescription is a pain as it cannot be shown correctly in the appearing tooltip text.
    A nice Feature would be that I'm able to add a Hyperlink in the MS
    Description which is pointing to the document in our SharePoint Server (or Wiki or whereever...).
    Or - if this is not working, would it be possible to define a Special RedGate Attribute/Property (e.g. MSDescriptionRedGate) below the MSDescription which is containing a hyperllink and this…

    4 votes

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  17. I really like auto quote completion, but when I am working with an openquery statement or dynamic sql where I am having to escape quotes by doubling them up, I find myself fighting the "helpful" behavior of quote completion either refusing to add a second quote or it adds too many quotes.
    So, my suggestion is that the quote completion feature check to see if you are trying to add quotes within a quoted string and change its behavior to either not do quote completion or to (even better) automatically add escaped quotes.

    To illustrate the problem and my proposed…

    4 votes

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  18. I originally submitted this as a support case when I saw that there was no IntelliSense suggestions when writing an ALTER ROLE...ADD MEMBER or ALTER ROLE...DROP MEMBER statement (the former doesn't show potential users/groups for completion and the latter doesn't show current role members for completion), but after investigation on the Redgate side I was told this was a feature that was never implemented.

    It would be great if we could get support added for this please, as ALTER ROLE is a core statement that has been around for many versions, and also because the alternative methods (e.g. spaddrolemember

    3 votes

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  19. When using the Lists > "Place commas before items" combined with the CTE >" Place CTE name on a new line" options, the subsequent CTEs are getting placed on new lines after the comma is already on a new line, resulting in:

    WITH
    myCte
    AS ( SELECT 1 a )
    ,
    mySecondCte
    ( Col1, Col2 )
    AS ( SELECT
    'Test' AS ThisIsAColumn
    , 'Test2' AS ThisIsAnotherColumn
    FROM Person.BusinessEntityContact )
    SELECT *
    FROM myCte

    I believe this combination of settings should be resulting in:

    WITH
    myCte
    AS ( SELECT 1 a )
    , mySecondCte
    ( Col1, Col2 )
    AS ( SELECT…

    3 votes

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  20. Add a feature for the formatting styles for CASE expression.

    Currently the formatting is so strange, it adds indents that don't make sense.
    It should have the possibility to add CASE on a completely new line.

    Please add :Start expression on a new line or something…

    3 votes

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