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  1. Intellisense does not seem to recognize variables declared within the current stored proc. This would be helpful.

    9 votes

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  2. When using default values for INSERT can you display GETDATE() instead of getting the current date and displaying that?

    9 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Intellisense  ·  Admin →
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  3. Currently no love for VS 2012 - hurry, please!

    9 votes

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    completed  ·  Paul Stephenson responded

    SQL Prompt 5.3.6 was released in October 2012 with support for Visual Studio 2012.

  4. When using the new feature 'Open in Excel' (the results from the grid), it'd be handy to have an option to replace NULL string values with empty strings ''. Sure you could do ISNULL on all the columns that are a string data type, but it'd be handy to just have the option to have the 'Open in Excel' feature do it.

    The only way I've found to quickly do it is to export the data as a csv and use a powershell script with something like:
    Export-CSV -NoTypeInformation -Encoding "Unicode" -Delimiter "," $AttachmentPath
    (Get-Content $AttachmentPath) -replace "`0", "" |…

    8 votes

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  5. Currently any comments that appear before the ALTER PROC statement are not scripted by SQL Prompt which results in those comments being silently deleted if the alter statement is executed.

    If I hover the mouse over a stored procedure name and click on the procedure name that pops up in order to see the script window I can see these comments but if I type alter proc <procname> and press tab to produce an alter script these comments are missing.

    There is a danger here of losing comments without the user being aware of it. I think SQL Prompt should…

    8 votes

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  6. Ctrl - > (right or left arrow key) is the default for move to next word in the editor. In order to escape SQL prompt you can use the left or right arrow, esc etc, but why not include Ctr right arrow or Ctr left arrow so we don't have to type the extra characters. Makes coding with SQL prompt burdensome. Still use it and thanks!

    8 votes

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    completed  ·  Aaron Law responded

    SQL Prompt 6.2.0.366 doesn’t swallow the Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right if the column picker is disabled.

  7. I really like the new feature in 6 that allows Ctrl-C to work to copy sections of scripts. However, I am missing an easy way to copy the entire script from the code pop-up. The copy button use to do this when nothing was selected in the pop-up window. Restoring this functionality would be appreciated.

    8 votes

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    completed  ·  Aaron Law responded

    SQL Prompt 6.1 has now been released and has the copy button returned to the popup.

  8. It would be great to be able to bulk delete old or unneeded tabs from Tab History. Right now, I have to delete it one by one which is an endless task.

    8 votes

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    2 comments  ·  Tab history  ·  Admin →
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  9. We need the ability to quickly switch between T-SQL Formatting styles.

    I work on a team where everyone likes code formatted differently. Also, we're required to use a specific format before checking SQL Code into TFS. I need a quick way to switch between styles so I can code in a format I like and then switch to our standard before check-in. Toad already offers this.

    8 votes

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    2 comments  ·  Format SQL  ·  Admin →
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  10. When loading management studio it would be great if tab magic could get a list of the required connections before the tabs are loaded and test each one silently to see if a connection would be possible (i.e. host is available) If the host is available then prompt for login once per host, if host is not available simply load the tab as not connected.

    This would make the experience much nicer as at the moment if I had say 15 tabs open to a host that I am no able to connect to (I work on multiple sites) I…

    8 votes

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    completed  ·  Aaron Law responded

    SQL Prompt 6.1.0.71 will try a silent background connection before getting SSMS to connect the query.

  11. Please add formatting options for the deferent parts of the MERGE command like you have for INSERT

    8 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Format SQL  ·  Admin →
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  12. Please let us have CTRL+U back for setting reserved words to uppercase (this shortcut seems to have disappeared) as well as CTRL+B+L for layout. CTRL+K+Y isn't as natural to use and I'm giving serious thought to downgrading to the previous version. I've been used to those shortcuts for years and all it's doing now is annoying me and getting in the way.

    8 votes

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    completed  ·  Paul Stephenson responded

    In SQL Prompt 5.1, Ctrl+B Ctrl+L now activates Format SQL (Ctrl+K Ctrl+Y still works too), and Ctrl+B Ctrl+U activates Uppercase Keywords.

  13. Code Analysis released in 9.0 is awesome! But I turn off a lot of the rules for day-to-day work. I know not to release production code with "select *" in it... But not all the devs do... so I have to click these rules back on to get Code Analysis to help me when I'm doing review.

    Could we have profiles for CA like in Format SQL? Better still, could we have the config of these profiles in flat files? I could version & share different profiles with devs - allowing them to check rules I'm going to check anyway…

    7 votes

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    Hello,

    We added this feature recently (in SQL Prompt 9.1.0.4138).

    Now it is possible to save your settings file in a shared folder for the team to use or switch between different settings files. This is accessible via the Prompt menu : SQL Prompt > Manage Code Analysis Rules….

    Let me know if you find it helpful.

    Kind regards,
    Alicja

  14. when creating a WHERE colname IN ('a','b','c')

    it would be nice if you could paste a set of rows from excel into SSMS and then add the quotation marks and commas

    i.e.

    A
    B
    C

    becomes

    'A',
    'B',
    'C'

    7 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Format SQL  ·  Admin →
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  15. Option to remove trailing spaces from script lines. This can be done via search/replace functionality but it would be nice to have this taken care of automatically during the SQL code reformatting

    7 votes

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    3 comments  ·  Format SQL  ·  Admin →
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  16. The SQL formatter was one of the reasons we chose to buy the Developer Toolkit, but it doesn't seem to be able to be configured to format to our company style.

    An example of the style is here: http://pastebin.com/LTLRJ6Fb

    Notably, it would be good to be able to have the FROM and table name on the same line without excess white-space in between,

    7 votes

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    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

  17. Its a very nice tool who made developer life very easy and do a major and boring task of code formatting by just pressing CTRL+K+Y.
    i need a feature who can help developer very much like 1)If there is a SQL Insert query and i select a field it should highlight the value assigned to that selected field because finding this become more painful in formatted code.

    7 votes

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  18. It would great if there was an un-format SQL command, which would basically un-format the SQL by removing all the carriage returns, tabs, extra spaces, etc. I know it seems odd, but we have several applications that use the SQL via external files, so the formatting will not work, and we end up manually removing all the formatting.

    7 votes

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  19. I really like how SQLPrompt assists with Insert Statements. However, I am then left with a large list of comments which I'm not allowed to check into source control. Therefore, I have to manually delete each line of comments.

    Example:
    Insert into Blah blah..

    VALUES ('', -- fenumber - char(3)
    '', -- finumber - char(3)
    '', -- fpartno - char(25) )

    When I enter the values, I want to be able to auto-eliminate the comments.

    7 votes

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  20. Enhance snippets to support arbitrary fields like Visual Studio or SSMS 2012.
    So say I had the following snippet "dups" defined
    SELECT *
    FROM $tablename$
    WHERE $columnname$ IN
    (
    SELECT $columnname$
    FROM $tablename$
    GROUP BY $columnname$
    HAVING COUNT(*) > 1
    );
    I would type dups{tab}mytable{tab}mycolumn{enter}

    7 votes

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