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  1. Could we have the ability to change the background colour when Code Analysis detects an issue with the code. My scheme is black background and light coloured fonts. When code analysis detects an issue, the code becomes unreadable. Below has an example:

    https://forum.red-gate.com/discussion/86480/code-analysis-selection-background-colour#latest

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  2. Indent the clauses that may follow an alter table statement. They currently are on the same line or split but not indented.

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  3. Whitespace: I picked up an indenting/alignment pattern from a Stack Overflow thread that solves an abundance of arguments: Please provide the option for using Tabs to indent the line, and then use spaces for alignments following the first character.

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  4. SQL prompt currently removes the empty line at the bottom of a script, which then break rule SC002.

    Can format include a setting to add a blank line at the bottom of a script, and also autofix sc002 issues.

    3 votes

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  5. Hi
    it is better to SQL prompt use only aliases define with user.

    need option in Aliases : Only For Custom Aliases

    Sorry For My Bad English

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  6. I would like to see the Script Object as Alter (F12) feature to work with synonyms. However, I am aware that a synonym cannot be altered - instead I suggest to generate a script containing a DROP and a CREATE statement.

    That way one could bring up the code of the referenced object by selecting the synonym, pressing F12, selecting the referenced object and pressing F12 again.

    3 votes

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  7. When you code a SELECT statement as:
    SELECT EffDt AS 'EffectiveDate'
    SQL PROMPT advises that string literals as column aliases have been deprecated.
    Have an option to convert string literals, similar to Remove Square Brackets. In this case, Convert Column Aliases would either remove the apostrophes, where appropriate, or add square brackets if required (e.g. the alias contained special characters, a space or reserved word).

    3 votes

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  8. When typing a string of text within a quote, do not replace my text with objects from the database.

    3 votes

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  9. When working with views, you lose the intellisense for columns. It would be nice if SQL Prompt could get the MS_Description value for the view column from the underlying base table for the view.

    3 votes

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  10. When you open up new queries in SSMS they are always called SQLQuery1.sql , SQLQuery2.sql etc. etc.

    what would be useful is if SQL prompt generates a more useful filename when you click Save or Save As in SSMS.

    For example,

    Say I had the script:

    CREATE VIEW report.vwRandomName
    as
    SELECT *
    FROM Table
    A

    when I clicked save, it would replace SQLQuery1.sql with

    report.vw_RandomName.View.Create.sql

    and the same with other object types (table/stored procs etc) and other actions (create / alter / drop).

    thanks
    ben

    3 votes

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  11. SQL Prompt's "Insert semicolon" function behaves weirdly when a CTE is a the start of a control loop. For example, if I have this code:

    IF (1=1) BEGIN
    WITH numbers AS (
    SELECT 1 AS num
    UNION SELECT 2
    UNION SELECT 3
    UNION SELECT 4
    )
    SELECT * FROM numbers
    END;

    SQL Prompt will format it as
    IF (1=1) BEGIN;
    WITH numbers AS (
    SELECT 1 AS num
    UNION SELECT 2
    UNION SELECT 3
    UNION SELECT 4
    )
    SELECT * FROM numbers;
    END;

    While the code runs, I think the semicolon after "BEGIN" makes very little sense. First, the beginning…

    3 votes

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  12. The updates for SQL Prompt have gotten out of hand - almost every day when logging into management studio it will prompt users to install a new update. And the notification steals focus from the main window, so it interrupts workflow. Not to mention redgate recently deployed an update that completely broke SQL Prompt in SSMS 18.1 for anyone that installed it. Users should have the ability to disable the notification completely if they so desire - "skip this version" does basically nothing when a new version is released a day later.

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  13. I'm constantly opening new SSMS windows, closing new ones, opening new visual studio windows, etc, and every time I open a new window, I have to acknowledge the upgrade prompt because it covers important parts of the window (like the status bar). Even if I select "next month" or "skip this version" I have to do the same for every new window I open since new sessions don't check for this option on existing sessions. SQL prompt is constantly getting updates (almost weekly, it seems), so i just start a new round of "skip this version" the following week.

    Can…

    3 votes

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  14. When I call a stored procedure, I want SQL Prompt's code analysis rules to be able to tell me if the variables I am passing to the stored procedure are OK.

    For example, if I pass a bigint variable to a SP that has a tinyint input parameter, I want SQL prompt to flag that as a potential issue.

    Similarly, if I am passing a string variable defined locally as nvarchar(150) to a SP that takes only nvarchar(100), it should be flagged as an issue (because I am passing a string that may not "fit" into the input parameter).

    3 votes

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  15. To help our developers we - as dba's - perform validation against their procedures and database code. The library of rules that is incorporated in SQLPrompt could be a good rule of thumb for the basic stuff of reviewing, so that we can focus on other stuff when validating.
    Is it possible to run the rules "engine" of SQLPrompt against an existing database without having to open the code manually?

    3 votes

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  16. When the option to insert a values clause with default values for an INSERT statement is in force, the default values used by SQL prompt ignore nulls. e..g if your table is CREATE TABLE foo (bar int NULL) and you let SQL Prompt build an INSERT with default values, it uses 0 as the default for column bar. This is wrong. The true default is NULL. It would be better if SQL Prompt just used a value clause like :

    VALUES (DEFAULT)

    and let SQL Server figure out the default. Worse yet, check out this table and the generated code:

    3 votes

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  17. I have different wants for parentheses rules: Collapse short content or not, Having Parentheses on separat lines or leading the content, etc. It all depends on the context. But currently the setting is global.

    I would like to be able to define one rule for, say, Primary Key definitions, and another rule for, say, the columns of a table.
    I would want one thing for Control Flow sections, and another thing for Variables declarations.

    Today, I need to choose which one to be dominant (or stop using FORMAT SQL on the entire script, but just highlight the block where I…

    3 votes

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  18. I have some snippets that I would like to be server specific. For example, we have two servers, each one has a sort of "support" database, but they do not have the same database name. But both databases have maintenance procs I like to use that do have the same name.

    I'd like to have some way of saying "If I am on Server1, then run SnippetA, if I am on Server2 then run SnippetB"

    OR

    Allow something like this as part of the snippet:

    $IF($SERVER$='Server1','String1','String2')$

    3 votes

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  19. when stored procedures have variables with defaults, your auto complete intellisense does not set the default. for example, if the parameter @a is an int = 5 in the creation of the proc, your auto complete says @a = 0 --int

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  20. It seems that the contents and closing parenthesis of EXISTS and APPLY clauses is not being indented as I would expect. So either i'm weird....or Format SQL is doing it wrong?

    I'm using (
    .....this parentheses style
    )

    What it's doing:

    SELECT *
    FROM tblA a
    WHERE 1 = 1
    .....AND EXISTS (
    .....SELECT *
    .....FROM tblB b
    .....WHERE b.Col1 = a.Col1
    ..........AND b.Col2 = a.Col2
    ..........AND b.Col3 = a.Col3
    )

    What I expect:

    SELECT *
    FROM tblA a
    WHERE 1 = 1
    .....AND EXISTS (
    ..........SELECT *
    ..........FROM tblB b
    ..........WHERE b.Col1 = a.Col1
    ...............AND b.Col2 = a.Col2
    ...............AND…

    3 votes

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