automate sql refactor

[pauldavidson]

Hi.

I auto generate thousands of SP's at a time in Sql Server 2005 (with sql refactor 1.3). Is there a way to make sql refactor layout all these SP's at once? I cannot go into these individually and reformat!

I cant seem to see anything in the menu.

Thanks.

[David Atkinson]

Sorry, there's currently no way of doing this, although it's a strong candidate to resolve in a future release.

Can I ask how you would expect this to work? Would you allow the tool to modify and apply the new formatting in your database blind? The current methodology formats the text in the query window so you can review what it has done before applying it to the database.

Kind regards,

David Atkinson
Product Manager
Red Gate Software

[pauldavidson]

Hi.

Yes I would want it to apply and do it blind.

Perhaps if you click on the stored procedures link at the left, and then have the right window showing the 'object explorer details' window. It would show all SP's as it currently does. Then you could, say, select a few of them, and right click and have an option in your context menu to execute the formatting. Or even by just right clicking a database in the left window be shown a context menu.

Thanks.

[David Atkinson]

Multi-selection of individual objects isn't currently possible in the object explorer, but it could exist in the context menu at the database level or the object type level.

Thanks for your suggestion!

David

[pauldavidson]

[pauldavidson]

After having a discussion with David from Redgate, we have come up with a workaround to do exactly this, until a new feature is added to Sql Refactor.

If you go into the 'object explorer details' pane, highlight multiple stored procedures, right click and choose to script a "create to" window. Then do a find and replace on the whole script changing "CREATE PROC" to "ALTER PROC", you can then choose to reformat this one script, and run it.

The only problem with this in my case is that I have several thousand SP's, so it can take some time to actually create the long script. Something like 10 - 15 mins!

But it works.