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  1. It would be nice to have some capabilities that exist in Excel 2013. Specifically the feature when you can highlight a column and then at the bottom of the application it gives you some quick statistics for the column. So if I had a column of numbers, and I highlighted the column in the results pane it would give me the Average of the numbers in that column and the sum of the numbers in the column. If the column was text you could see the count of distinct values in that column. This just gives quick access to statistical…

    34 votes

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  2. Create a Select/Update/Insert/Delete procedure by rightclick a table.

    With option to select columns for each statement.

    34 votes

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  3. I think having an API to format generated SQL scripts, whether it be from the SQL Compare API or another process like SMO objects, to able to apply the formats saved in SQL Prompt.

    34 votes

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    It would be great if you could let us know more about how you’d use a Prompt API / command line version of Prompt.

    What problems are you having without it?
    How are you getting around those?
    How would this make your work better?

  4. If I have more open tabs than can horizontally fit the window SSMS does not show all of them but instead there is a dropdown in the right upper corner. I would prefer if I could have multiple rows of tabs instead, like in VS. Since it does not seem likely that MS is going to implement that soon, can it be done in SQL prompt?

    32 votes

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  5. Show a visual indication when open transactions exist in a query window (@@TRANCOUNT > 0)

    It could be changing the background color of the query window, and a number in the status bar showing the current transaction depth or something like that.

    32 votes

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  6. Highlight a SELECT stmt and create a temp table definition from it. You often need to create #tables and you have a select to fill it with. However, you have to either create the #table manually or do a SELECT INTO into a real table and then script it out. It would be nice to be able to just take my SELECT and be able to get the #table definition for it.

    31 votes

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  7. Add additional option for "remove unnecessary brackets" which would keep brackets around syntax highlighted words.
    "Status", "description", and "Type" are examples of special words that are syntax highlighted, but they aren't full reserved keywords, so would want the brackets kept.

    How to configure and prevent SQL Prompt from removing brackets around Syntax highlighted words?
    We only have the following settings:
    a) Options > Inserted Code > Special Characters > Brackets > Enclose identifiers within square brackets [] = NO (which is our desire)
    b) Options > Format > Styles > Actions > run format > Add/remove square brackets = YES,…

    30 votes

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  8. Coloring the Tabs is very nice. I would love to have the database/server icons be colored (or at least a small colored dot on them) so I could see at a glance in Object Explorer what server the database is on.

    29 votes

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  9. Would like to control formatting of the OVER clause. E.g I would like the complete "(Partition by ... order by ...) as xyz" on one line, but today it's overrdden by other options.

    28 votes

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  10. When working all day long with serveral SQL servers, its really annoying to click on "change connection" button + enter the server name you want to connect to, and enter credential.... It would be really great we we would have a "server connection list" where we could build into settings.... So i could add all my server i'm use to connect everyday, and specifying the USERNAME + PASSWORD + Default DB..... So in one-two click, i could switch to another server really quicly

    28 votes

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  11. Occasionally, developers working in SSMS accidentally leave transactions open. This causes big issues, of course. SSMS lets the user know if they try to close a tab with an uncommitted transaction, but only when the user tries to close the tab.

    I would like a feature in SQL Prompt so that it lets the user know that they have an uncommitted transaction. SQL Prompt could prompt the user via a toast pop-up or coloring the connection tab or something

    27 votes

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  12. Find unused columns in SELECT statements similar to finding unused variables.
    Use case: I have some subqueries where I expanded SELECT * to now explicitly specify column names (best practice). However, only some of the columns and then used in the query process or results. I thus want the ability to have the unused columns removed from the SELECT statement.

    26 votes

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  13. I align aliases, commas, datatypes and expressions at the first tab stop following the longest element in the list. See examples below:

    -- Tilde character used as space replacement to cope with HTML formatting
    -- 2-character tabs are assumed below
    -- In a fixed-space font, the commas, = signs, data types and AS keywords would all line up vertically
    DECLARE
    ~~@x~~~~~~~~~~~~~~INT~~~~~~~~~,
    ~~@var~~~~~~~~~~~~VARCHAR(4)~~,
    ~~@longer_varname~VARCHAR(10)~,
    ~~@z~~~~~~~~~~~~~~DATETIME~~~~;

    SELECT
    ~~~~@longer_varname~=~'x'~~~~~~~,
    ~~~~@var~~~~~~~~~~~~=~'1234'~~~~,
    ~~~~@z~~~~~~~~~~~~~~=~GETDATE()~;

    SELECT
    ~~~~T1.shortfield~~~~~~~~AS~ShortField~,
    ~~~~AO.really
    longfield~~AS~LongField~~,
    ~~~~'x'~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~AS~XChar~~~~~~,
    ~~FROM~~~~~~~~dbo.table1~~~~~~AS~T1
    ~~~~LEFT~JOIN~dbo.another
    one~AS~AO~ON~T1.keyval~=~AO.keyval;

    EXEC~@x~=~dbo.SomeProc
    ~~@Param1~=~'3'~~~~~~~~~~~,
    ~~@P2~~~~~=~'Longer~Text'~,
    ~~@P3~~~~~=~4~~~~~~~~~~~~~;

    24 votes

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  14. In SQL Prompt 8, multiple-line comment blocks (surrounded by /* */) are automatically indented to the SQL code surrounding them when formatting.

    Can you please add an option to preserve the indentation of these blocks? My team keeps most comment blocks left-aligned for consistency and readability, but SQL Prompt will automatically move them when formatting.

    This was not an issue in SQL Prompt 7, so all of our comment blocks are now moving when upgrading to SQL Prompt 8 and there is no option to preserve them. Thank you.

    23 votes

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  15. It would be awesome if the Results tab could be right-clicked (when results are in a grid), and then have an option to export all tables to Excel, with each table being in a new tab. Currently I can only export one table of results at a time to Excel, and if I need to do multiple tables then multiple sheets are opened.

    23 votes

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  16. Provide a better tab list for navigation than the one supplied by SSMS when there are many tabs open, for instance a resizable "navigation" window (or even a navigation tab) that easily allows filtering/grouping by server instance, database, user defined, etc.

    As a complement to grouping tabs would be to allow naming, saving, closing, and opening of a "tab group" - related queries/script files that do not make up an SSMS "project" but are used for a particular purpose or go against a particular database, etc (user determines grouping criteria, see above). Furthermore, activating a tab group would bring its…

    23 votes

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  17. Results Grid aggregates
    SUM, AVG, MIN, MAX and COUNT aggregates are shown
    for selected range of cells in Results Grid open a new window with this reslults

    like http://www.ssmsboost.com/VersionCompare

    22 votes

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  18. Spell check on comments would be a nice addition to SQL Prompt. I know there can be misspellings within variables, table or any type of SQL object, but to at least have it in the comments would be nice.

    22 votes

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  19. SQL Prompt should be able to Visualize the Code and represent the code like Flow Chart.
    This Feature will be very useful while working with heavy Stored Procedures.

    The Sample Code Visualization image is shared below:

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dE0H7UP1MOuOZ4A3e4urUkDlR0FD4474/view?usp=sharing

    21 votes

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  20. Visual Studio supports a Dark theme however Prompt doesn't match and still displays the standard white for suggestions.

    21 votes

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