suggestion: delimit identifiers

[jroh]

It would be nice to have a way to delimit existing identifiers, without having to qualify the object name.

Thanks, J

[Linda Hawksworth]

I have logged your feature request in our tracking system (SR-839). I have put a watch on it so that I am informed if/when the status of it changes.

[jroh]

thank you!

[dslinn@gms.ca]

By this request, do you mean that you want SQL Refactor to change:

SELECT * FROM Northwind.dbo.Customers

to:

SELECT * FROM [Northwind].[dbo].[Customers]

If so, this is the feature I am also looking for.

[jroh]

yes, exactly-- and also the field name also without expanding the db name

so,

SELECT [field1], [field2] FROM [Northwind].[dbo].[Customers]


The issue is inconsistency. Sql server enterprise manager generates the brackets, and sql prompt generates the brackets, but if I'm looking through old code they may not be on there. I have to do every search and replace twice because it may or may not have the brackets on there.

Thanks, James

[dslinn@gms.ca]

This is the exact feature I came on here to find out if sql refactor could this already and I just couldn't find it. Guess not. I second jroh's request.

[David Atkinson]

This seems to be a popular request. I agree that it's slightly inconsistent that there is a "Always delimit identifiers" option that only works for script generation and not for the Lay Out feature.

I've put this on our internal wish list. Can I ask if anyone uses quoted delimeters or is this just square brackets?

Kind regards,

David Atkinson
Product Manager
Red Gate Software

[dslinn@gms.ca]

For me, we are trying to delimit all of our database objects (databases, tables, schemas, columns) with square brackets. We don't use quoted delimiters.