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  1. It would be nice to have an option to not but square brackets around aliases as it's our style to not do so. We find it makes the aliases unnecessarily long,since most of our aliases are 1 or 2 letters.

    For example

    SELECT
    T.[TableId],
    T.[Name]
    FROM
    [dbo].[MyTable] T

    vs

    SELECT
    [T].[TableId],
    [T].[Name]
    FROM
    [dbo].[MyTable] [T]

    Currently we have to go back and rename an alias to itself so that the square brackets go away.

    8 votes

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  2. At the moment a warning is given "Non-scalar subquery in place of a scalar" when trying to assign a variable to the result of a query filtered by the primary key column. In this case only one result can be returned so the warning appears inaccurate and wrapping the result in a TOP 1 { } ORDER BY statement seems an overkill just to remove the warning. This is kind of a special case however where the subquery contains only one table filtered with "=" on the primary key column, but it is a very common one.

    Example:
    DECLARE @X…

    6 votes

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  3. I would like to see the Script Object as Alter (F12) feature to work with synonyms. However, I am aware that a synonym cannot be altered - instead I suggest to generate a script containing a DROP and a CREATE statement.

    That way one could bring up the code of the referenced object by selecting the synonym, pressing F12, selecting the referenced object and pressing F12 again.

    3 votes

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  4. I want to be able to quickly switch between active styles.
    I'm informed that the solution to this was to add the Active Styles section of the context menu, to allow quick access to the active styles.
    That's fine as far as it goes, but that entry is very far down the menu and is only quickly accessible by mouse.

    I would like to suggest having the "Active Styles" entry changed to "&Active Styles" so that the A becomes a shortcut in the context menu; and to have each of the styles listed as &1, &2, &3 etc. in the…

    1 vote

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  5. Feature to automatically add column alias with the name of the column.
    E.g.:

    SELECT Column1
    FROM Table1 AS t1

    changes to:

    SELECT Column1 AS Column1
    FROM Table1 AS t1

    If the name can not be found add a dummy-alias like Exp1

    8 votes

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  6. I realize my title is very vague.

    Basically, I would like more control options over how styles are applied. Maybe I'm just really weird in how I format my SQL, but it seems like no matter how hard I try, I can never get the styles the way I want them.

    I realize that it's impossible to make it perfect. But the basic idea is to get the formatter to do what you would normally do the majority of the time.

    For example....the majority of the time, I prefer the following...

    For JOIN clauses, all join criteria is in the…

    7 votes

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  7. It would be nice to have the ability to mass import/export aliases.

    5 votes

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  8. When you code a SELECT statement as:
    SELECT EffDt AS 'EffectiveDate'
    SQL PROMPT advises that string literals as column aliases have been deprecated.
    Have an option to convert string literals, similar to Remove Square Brackets. In this case, Convert Column Aliases would either remove the apostrophes, where appropriate, or add square brackets if required (e.g. the alias contained special characters, a space or reserved word).

    3 votes

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  9. Run Script at Cursor just Oracle SQL Developer with F5 or Alt+X. Please implement this very helpful functionality.

    1 vote

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  10. When typing a string of text within a quote, do not replace my text with objects from the database.

    3 votes

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  11. COLUMNPROPERTY (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/functions/columnproperty-transact-sql) is missing two suggested property values that were introduced along with System-Versioned tables in SQL Server 2016.
    Please find the missing values below:
    GeneratedAlwaysType
    IsHidden

    1 vote

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  12. Currently, when hovering over table objects, and clicking on the table name mini popup, you get the object definition box, with a 'Script' and 'Summary' tab.

    The 'Script' tab has the table and index creation scripts, and the 'Summary' tab lists the column definitions.

    For tables with triggers, it would be nice to have a 'Triggers' tab that contains
    any trigger scripts for the table.

    https://documentation.red-gate.com/sp/sql-code-completion-and-intellisense/using-the-object-definition-box-and-object-tooltips

    1 vote

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  13. When you select a table from the intellisense list
    Precede the table name with the database name as well
    Currently it is only inserting the schema name in front of the table name
    i.e. dbo.<table name>

    It should be <database name>.<schema name>.<table name>

    2 votes

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  14. When working with views, you lose the intellisense for columns. It would be nice if SQL Prompt could get the MS_Description value for the view column from the underlying base table for the view.

    3 votes

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  15. We use a data warehousing strategy that creates potentially dozens of tables for multi-class entities in the data warehouse, so we have many tables that end in "core". This leads SQL Prompt to alias the object with a final "C" that we then remove manually. For example, our InstanceCore and Database_Core tables are aliased to "IC" and "DC" when we would prefer "I" and "D" respectively.

    Can SQL Prompt's Aliasing capabilities be extended to support "Suffixes to ignore" just like the existing "Prefixes to ignore"?

    1 vote

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  16. After Update to 10.0.
    When you for example press J for join and confirm this input with Tab, it wont add a Space. You have to add this space manually :(
    maybe it is possible to add automatily always the space

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  17. Similar to the movement of caret within CamelCase, could you please enable such behavior for pythoncaseidentifiers? I'd like the caret to stop in these places when using CTRL+<right or left arrow>: (1)python(2)case(3)identifier. Would that be possible, please?

    1 vote

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  18. Hi there. Currently, SQL Prompt formats an invocation of a sproc like this:

    exec sproc @param1 = ?,
    @param2 = ?,
    @param3 = ?

    I'd like to be able to change this into:

    exec sproc
    @param1 = ?,
    @param2 = ?,
    @param3 = ?

    Thanks.

    10 votes

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  19. When formatting SQL, it would be good to have the option to put the item following an AND/OR on a new line and align it, so instead of:

    WHERE
    OutgoingResults.LoadDateKey = 20191106
    AND OutgoingResults.FeedName = 'TestFeed'

    we have

    WHERE
    OutgoingResults.LoadDateKey = 20191106
    AND
    OutgoingResults.FeedName = 'TestFeed'

    14 votes

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  20. So, Starred Tabs have been added, which is 1/2 of the capability I asked for a while back with "pinned tabs". We can remove tabs from Tab History either:
    1 tab at a time.....100s of times per day for me
    Older than x date - which does NOT work for me, because tabs that I want to keep around aren't always used every day

    So, now that we can "Star" tabs, how about letting us clean up Tab History a little more cleanly. Such as:
    1 tab at a time
    Older than x, except Starred Tabs
    Older than x

    This…

    2 votes

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