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  1. Currently, FROM, WHERE, JOIN, and ODER can all be right-aligned to SELECT when formatting SQL. However, if you introduce a LEFT JOIN, the LEFT keyword is right-aligned to SELECT, and everything else is pushed over to make room for the JOIN. This is hideous and makes no sense.

    Instead, allow the entirety of "LEFT JOIN", "RIGHT JOIN", "INNER JOIN" and "OUTER JOIN" to right-align to the SELECT keyword.

    The attached images explain it better than I can.

    6 votes

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  2. SQL Prompt and SSMS do not have the option to create/remove block comments. This is a serious problem.

    We SQL Prompt users would love the option to add/remove block comments in SQL, between the marks /* and */, because they sometimes serve very different purposes.

    Inline comment options (Ctrl + K, Ctrl + C or Ctrl + K, Ctrl + U) are helpful, but they don't always do exactly what we need. Sometimes they can break things. See below.

    /*
    Sometimes we need block comments that cover multiple lines.
    Like this.
    /
    /
    Or comments where each line begins and…

    6 votes

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  3. The Database drop down needs to be dynamic in width or allow us to pull it wider. It is extremely difficult trying to find the database I'm working on when I have multiple installed in a LocalDB environment.

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  4. At present, when I search (and I hate that the search opens as a new screen), I have to click "advanced search", and select object type of "queries" (I'm really not interested in the query history, I'd rather turn it off but there's no option to do that)

    The one thing that would be most useful thought would be to remember the advanced settings between uses - or maybe allow them to be saved as a search default. This would go some way to address the poor user interface changes that have made the new SQL History much harder to…

    8 votes

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  5. SQL Prompt should properly suggest table names or constraint names for DBCC CHECKCONSTRAINTS.

    The correct syntax would be:
    DBCC CHECKCONSTRAINTS('SchemaName.TableOrConstraintName')

    Currently, it suggests this way:
    DBCC CHECKCONSTRAINTS(TableName)
    which only works if TableName is in the dbo schema.

    1 vote

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  6. Add an Enable checkbox in the Style Sheet | Global | Parenthesis settings.

    When SQL Prompt encounters the 'old style' usage of TOP, without parenthesis, automatically enclose the apparent 'what' in parenthesis.

    8 votes

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  7. I've created a few different style templates and named them accordingly, but when I want to add them as buttons to quickly change between styles, there is just a list of styles with no label so I don't know what any of them are.

    So I have to trawl through and add each of them as a menu button until the one I want appears, which is incredibly frustrating and time consuming! When its on the menu bar as a button, it has the appropriate name rather than just "style" so can this be added to the add button menu…

    3 votes

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  8. I often need to wrap a column in a coalesce with 0.
    It would be swell if there was a feature where I could select a column, then either right click or Keyboard shortcut to have it wrapped in coalesce.
    E.g. select the word
    personCount
    and have it be replaced with
    coalesce(personCount,0) as personCount

    1 vote

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  9. i have file excel multi column about 100 column.
    I suggest feature, when i open excel, auto create struct insert table.

    2 votes

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  10. I usually enclose database and server names in square brackets.
    Instead of only removing the square brackets, you could change that option (keeping its keyboard shortcut) to toggle between adding and removing them.

    3 votes

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  11. Can we add option to have "WITH (NOLOCK)" in the Aliases tab in the Options

    2 votes

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  12. Add a feature that when provided an SP will enumerate every SP called with that SP and down the chain until the last SP has been listed.

    NOTE: It would need to take into account circular references in which case once an SP has been enumerated if it's found again it's listed but nothing else after since that will have already been done once.

    2 votes

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  13. The recent roll-out of SQL History was handled very poorly. SQL History isn't simply an update to Tab history else there would not have been the need for a name change. SQL History is an alternative feature meant to do what Tab History does (I hope) and more but on roll-out it made many of your paying customers not only angry because you replaced Tab history with it but because it wasn't ready for roll-out.

    In the future when you feel the need to replace an existing beloved feature with something different and not just an update, DON'T! Instead roll…

    3 votes

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  14. Tab History NEVER should have been replaced with SQL History, a very poorly received roll-out that angered many paying customers. The fact that Red-gate felt it necessary to re-brand the thing is indication enough that it wasn't simply an update to Tab history but a replacement. That said when you do something like this in a product people are paying for it should be rolled out as something new and not something that replaces an existing beloved feature.

    Perhaps after enough updates SQL history will be usable and thus tab history unnecessary but there's no telling how many updates that…

    19 votes

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  15. Snippet adds or updates are not refreshed until SSMS is restarted.

    Can you add a feature to auto refresh the cache of snippets or make part of the "refresh suggestions"

    3 votes

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  16. When making a CREATE TABLE statement, there should be a formatting option to align the data-type behind the field names.

    2 votes

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  17. When making a CREATE TABLE statement, I would like to have the comma at the beginning of the line.
    I've set the lists.placeCommasBeforeItems property to true, but it's not working for the DDL statement.

    So either fix the comma placement option for DDL statements or add an option for it.

    2 votes

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  18. A nice SQL Prompt feature would be autocomplete using contents from user tables. For example, if I have a smallish table (this idea may be impractical for large tables) with a list of codes - state codes, statuses, categories, etc. - and I need to hard-code a value from the table in a query, it would be cool if SQL Prompt could do autocomplete from the contents of the table.

    2 votes

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  19. There is a general configuration for operators AND/OR. However, for us it is important to distinguish between the different places they are used:

    • JOIN
    • WHERE
    • CASE ...

    Would it be possible to configure the AND/OR options inside each block?

    3 votes

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  20. Would it be possible to include the attached menu options in the Style format configuration? It would be very helpful to have it when Formatting SQL instaead of executing it after the Format.
    At least, "Apply Casing Options", "Qualify Object Names" and "Remove Square Brackets".

    2 votes

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