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  1. 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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  2. What I sometimes run into, is that a table gets an alias (by SQL prompt), that matches an acronym for a snippet. Then, whenever I'm writing out my query, while calling the table by alias, snippet manager replaces the alias with the full snippet. Which can be annoying as Ctrl-Z doesn't work.

    My suggestion would be to check the snippet manager before assigning aliases and not have them overlap.
    Thanks.

    3 votes

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  3. When writing SQL I don't think procedurally, which means I don't think about nested, indented "blocks" unless I'm actually using some procedural style SQL extensions like try/catch, if, case (which is a little procedural expression inside a set based statement), and so on.

    Because of this, I like to align various different "types of things" in a statement to create vertical rivers.

    So, for example, insert, update, select, from, join, where, group by, having, and order by are all aligned on the left. You might think of this as "column 1 - sql keywords".

    Then come column names, table names…

    1 vote

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  4. On SQL Prompt Aliases section I would like to have on custom aliases when I add a new a dropdown or a list view where I can pick object instead of me writing the object name. it would be even better if it has an option to show only object not already added with alias.

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  5. Please, separate options to align aliases for columns and tables..... I love aligned column aliases, but table aliases advance too far right, unnecessarily.

    7 votes

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  6. Regardless of the source table, we would like the option to force table, column, and alias names to lower case. (We integrate databases from multiple sources and our queries look like a mess when half of the columns are upper case and half are lower).

    Example:
    SELECT dp.PROJID AS cpprojid,
    pld.suffix AS project
    segment,
    IP.projectnumber AS innprojid
    FROM DEL.PROJ AS dp
    INNER JOIN DEL.view
    projectlvldetail AS pld
    ON pld.PROJID = dp.projid
    LEFT OUTER JOIN inn.PROJ AS IP
    ON dp.PROJID LIKE IP.cpproj_id + '%'

    I think this is hard…

    7 votes

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  7. Semi-colons are automatically added at every END reserved key word. Make this optional.

    END(;)
    END TRY(;)
    END CATCH(;)

    This just look weird to everyone

    BEGIN
    ....
    END(;) <=== don't want it here... there's an ELSE continuation.
    ELSE
    BEGIN
    END(;)

    1 vote

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  8. It would be nice to have ability to format the documents automatically, have an API or command line command for that. For example to force format when check-in code.

    11 votes

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  9. If I have a very large script with the majority of it with formatting disabled, or even with just a highlighted small area... the ctrl-K,ctrl-Y formatting seems to consider the parts it will not be formatting. Example: code in a separate window will format instantly while in a window with 100k lines with same code highlighted it will take a long while. This seems to indicate that it is considering all of the code even though it is only formatting a small piece.

    2 votes

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  10. 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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  11. In version 7 the Style option FormatActionRemoveSquareBrackets was removed from the .sqlpromptstyle Style file into the .settings Settings file. I would like it moved back into the Style file, along with all other Style options settable under "SSMS > SQL Prompt > Options > Format > Style". See https://productsupport.red-gate.com/hc/en-us/requests/122489 for additional details.

    2 votes

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  12. Someone else has submitted this suggestion and it is marked completed. However, it does not seem to do so in my version of SQL Prompt (9.2.6.6145)

    9 votes

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  13. Version 9.2.5.6073

    I would like to request that script validation be limited to the selected text during Format SQL.

    This is a duplicate of a Completed feature (Bug) submitted on version 7. https://redgate.uservoice.com/forums/94413-sql-prompt/suggestions/16611622-formatting-of-valid-selected-code-when-there-is-in
    I see recent comments on the original request but you may not be addressing since it is marked completed.

    To Replicate:

    Put 3 lines below in a new Window in SSMS

    SOME BAD TEXT
    GO
    SELECT 1 FROM dbo.Person

    Now select All of Line 3 after the GO Statement. Right-click, Format SQL

    Should get following error:
    "Error inserting semicolons" ...

    Script parsing errors:
    Line 1 Col: 1…

    5 votes

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  14. IF Statement block formatting is messed up

    IF 1 = 1
    BEGIN
    PRINT 'DO STUFF'
    END

    becomes

    IF 1 = 1 BEGIN
    PRINT 'DO STUFF';
    END;

    which is what I want...I want to leave the BEGIN END indention

    5 votes

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  15. 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.

    29 votes

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  16. Would be great to be able to add user specific outlining, so that you could add + & - where ever you choose in a sql script to collapse down certain parts. The CRM system that I support has a create contact table import with 200 columns which is regularly used and this functionality would be great when having to resort to using this import etc...

    6 votes

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  17. Currently the behavior for inserting a full INSERT statement is that it produces something like this:

    INSERT INTO dbo.ContactPictures
    ( InterActionPersonalContactID ,
    InterActionFirmContactID ,
    ImageFileStoreFilePathSegment ,
    Source ,
    ManuallyCreatedByUserAccountName ,
    DateTimeLastUpdated
    )
    VALUES ( 0 , -- InterActionPersonalContactID - int
    0 , -- InterActionFirmContactID - int
    '' , -- ImageFileStoreFilePathSegment - varchar(256)
    '' , -- Source - varchar(20)
    N'' , -- ManuallyCreatedByUserAccountName - nvarchar(40)
    GETDATE() -- DateTimeLastUpdated - datetime
    )

    Hard-coded values are rarely what's needed, though; it would be very useful if it could generate variables and use them in the statement, like this:

    DECLARE @InterActionPersonalContactID INT = 0…

    8 votes

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  18. My default preference is to maintain the ON keyword without a new line. I would like to be able to CONDITIONALLY place the ON keyword on a new line if, and only if the ON keyword together with the associated ON condition exceed a configurable wrap threshold.

    Example:
    -- Yield this >>>>
    SELECT *
    FROM Person.Address
    INNER JOIN Person.StateProvince
    ON StateProvince.StateProvinceID=Address.StateProvinceID
    -- >>>> instead of

    SELECT *
    FROM Person.Address
    INNER JOIN Person.StateProvince ON StateProvince.StateProvinceID=Address.StateProvinceID
    -- Assuming the JOIN clause exceeds the wrap length
    -- <<<

    This is particularly useful if the "Place JOIN table on new line" is NOT selected…

    3 votes

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  19. Similar to the CTE request https://redgate.uservoice.com/forums/94413-sql-prompt/suggestions/19545028-format-cte-closing-parenthesis

    Aligning the closing parenthesis on its own line, in the same column as the opening paren, makes the subquery stand out, as well as making the alias stand out.

    9 votes

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  20. if blah=1
    ____return 1;

    if blah=2
    _begin
    _
    return 2;
    _end
    else
    _
    return 0;

    13 votes

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