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  1. I would like to be able to check a box and always indent a sub-query.

    currently formatting a query works like this:
    SELECT *
    FROM dbo.tbl1 AS a
    INNER JOIN(SELECT ID FROM dbo.tbl2 WHERE value = 'y') AS b ON a.id = b.id

    when the paren is set to inline the open paren and indent the content with the indent parentheses contents checked. I would rather have a checkbox to force the sub-query to format like this:

    SELECT *
    FROM dbo.tbl1 AS a
    INNER JOIN (
    SELECT ID
    FROM dbo.tbl2
    WHERE value = 'y'
    ) AS b ON a.id =…

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  2. A nested join is indented additionally relative to the join that it is nested within:

    SELECT *
    FROM Person.Address
    --INNER JOIN Person.StateProvince
    ----INNER JOIN Sales.SalesTerritory
    ------ON SalesTerritory.TerritoryID = StateProvince.TerritoryID
    ----ON StateProvince.StateProvinceID = Address.StateProvinceID

    When joining the same tables but not writing them in a nested manner, there is no additional indentation:

    SELECT *
    FROM Person.Address
    --INNER JOIN Person.StateProvince
    ----ON StateProvince.StateProvinceID = Address.StateProvinceID
    --INNER JOIN Sales.SalesTerritory
    ----ON SalesTerritory.TerritoryID = StateProvince.TerritoryID

    It would be nice to allow the same amount of indentation that would be used if the join were nested to be used when it is not nested:
    SELECT *
    FROM…

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  3. It would be nice to have an option to specify different styles when there is one set of VALUES compared to multiple. For example, I would like to use "Compact, indented) when there are multiple sets of VALUES:

    INSERT INTO Employees
    ( id
    , FirstName
    , LastName
    , BirthDate )
    VALUES
    ( 2
    , 'Jane'
    , 'Doe'
    , GETDATE())
    , ( 3
    , 'Frederico'
    , 'James'
    , GETDATE());

    But compact when there is only one set of VALUES:

    INSERT INTO Employees
    ( id
    , FirstName
    , LastName
    , BirthDate )
    VALUES
    ( 2
    , 'Jane'
    , 'Doe'
    , GETDATE())

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  4. I would like to be able to export (+import) only specific portions of the options.

    So that I - for instance - may only distribute my aliases or my coding style options to the team; not everything. The current binary format for the export file only allows for an all-or-nothing approach.

    So please
    (A) Make the export file a xml-format, so we can filter it ourselves
    or
    (B) Add a dialog to allow us to mark the sections to be included into the export file via checkboxes

    This would also likely solve other feature-requests:
    - https://redgate.uservoice.com/forums/94413-sql-prompt/suggestions/46784125-export-snippets-to-text-file
    - https://redgate.uservoice.com/forums/94413-sql-prompt/suggestions/40966285-sql-prompt-setting-sharing
    - https://redgate.uservoice.com/forums/94413-sql-prompt/suggestions/39174019-import-and-export-aliases

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  5. I have the misfortune of trying to read an EF query. It would be extremely helpful if the «Format SQL» function in SQL Prompt could greatly reduce the verbosity and make the massively nested queries much, much easier to read.

    This is what I am doing by hand:

    • Replacing names like 'Extent6' with letters of the alphabet. I will go back later and replace these letters with more helpful names. Because the aliases of the table-valued objects are so long, so is there so much more text to plough through;

    • Removing aliases from columns whose names are identical.…

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  6. I am color-blind and while tab coloring isn't as big an issue, the real estate of the status bar and font size makes certain color schemes that I use on tabs VERY difficult to read. I would love an option to select whether the tab color propagates to the status bar and possibly even separately set a different "default" color for the status bar. I know some have requested the status bar mirror the tab color but some of us color-challenged developers would rather not have that option. Note, the "default" color could be consistent across all environments rather than…

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  7. I would like the Prompt to be able to list any partition function found in the current context (DB)
    like when i write: $partition.<Intellisense here>

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  8. SQL Complete has a great feature to allow copying the result as html table. I wish this feature was available in RedGate. This is the feature I would use multiple times every day.

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  9. In the "Open in Excel" feature, I'd like the resulting Excel workbook to auto-open using the default Books.xlst template file locatedi in the %AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART folder.

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  10. When you do a new release of SQL Prompt it will popup thru the existing install of SQL Prompt saying that there is a new release. There is a link on there to the release notes. PLEASE UPDATE THE RELEASE NOTES WEBSITE TO DESCRIBE THE NEW RELEASE. The website is usually a version behind. The problem is there is a new release and no idea what it fixes or addresses.

    Just installed Version 10.14.11.7894 and I do not know why...

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  11. After I connect to multiple servers at one time using the Registered Servers window, the connected servers appear expanded in the Object Explorer window, and then I manually collapse each one. I also find myself scrolling up and down in the Object Explorer window to manually collapse servers I've expanded throughout the day. A menu item to collapse all of the connected servers in the Object Explorer window would be a feature I would use quite often.

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  12. We extensively use this rule in our organization.

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  13. Where Script as INSERT takes the selected table values and puts them into #temptable
    The 'Script as UPDATE' knowing which field is the PK would instead of creating something like
    `INSERT INTO #temptable ([Id], [BrandId], [Key], [Value])VALUES ),()... would create
    UPDATE #temptable SET [Key]='', [Value]='' where [Id]=101 and [BrandId]=1
    This would make creating the Down Migration scripts used in EF easy as will as a quick UNDO safety net when running scripts is pre-live or live.

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  14. I got a suggestion from SQL Prompt for "Slow cached time detected".The link (seen in the screenshot) was this one:

    https://documentation.red-gate.com/sp/managing-sql-prompt-behavior/managing-connections-and-memory

    So from what I understand, I need to manually go through all databases and schemas and select the ones I think are used to the most in order to only load suggestions for them, in order to improve performance?

    While I generally like SQL Prompt, the first word that came to mind was that this pretty much sucked, but let's just say it's less that optimal I think. Given that we’re in the ”AI age”, I was hoping that…

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  15. When a column(s) on the Results Grid is selected, show the Count, Distinct Count, Avg, Min, Max, Sum of the data in the column(s). Make it an option as to what to show by default, but with the option of widening or narrowing the aforementioned data.

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  16. I have a handful of tables/views I use the same aliases for. I want to have SQL Prompt add those aliases when it completes the table/view name, but not automatically create new aliases for all of the other tables/views

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  17. Our dev group versions our styles. A small change between style versions can cause numerous changes in a single file making peer reviews more difficult than they need to be.

    My suggestion is to add an Format > Styles > Actions option to add style stamp. Implementation would be adding a comment with a style/version stamp at the top of the file when a format is applied. If the comment exists prior to formatting, that style will be used by SQL Prompt regardless of selected style. If the style/version is not found, the selected style is used. To change which…

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  18. It would be great if you would introduce a new setting where we can turn of update- and other notifications (like "SQL 2008R2 not supported") warnings.

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  19. Currently, SQL prompt doesn't support the windows certificate store like most applications do. The only way to work around that currently is to simply trust all certificates which is inconvenient (having to set this across potentially hundreds of server connections) and a security gap.

    SQL prompt should either provide an option to leverage the certificates. Currently, if a blanket trust is not provided, SSMS and SQL in general will work fine, but SQL prompt will cease to function, since the application (visual studio, SSMS) will connect correctly, but SQL prompt will not.

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  20. I had a query which was using ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY ColumnA ORDER BY ColumnB, ColumnC) and FORMAT SQL command put the ORDER BY clause as the first thing on the line (no indentation). It would be better if, when it needs to be wrapped, the ORDER BY inside an OVER was indented to line up with PARTITION BY).

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