Alongside specialists, an IT department needs people who are broadly skilled and adaptable, who can pivot quickly to new projects, slot easily into new teams, and be productive quickly. SQL Prompt is the industry-leading SQL IntelliSense and code-formatting tool, and is an investment in developer versatility and productivity. It will both increase personal coding productivity Read more
What is code analysis? Code analysis is a formal automated process of scanning a piece of software code and deducing potential problems, issues and faults that may not be apparent to programmers at first glance. These could include mistakes that are easy to make for but hard to detect (such as copying and pasting something Read more
“Have you seen this new feature that auto-fills the GROUP BY with non-aggregated columns!” exclaimed my co-worker, soon after she had installed a new version of SSMS. I hadn’t, but I was intrigued. I must have written thousands of aggregate queries in my career, so it sounded like it could save me some time. I Read more
I’ve a a busy day ahead of me, working on a new reporting query, plus reviewing some initial database designs for the team. We’ve done the morning stand-up meeting, I’ve had my morning coffee, SQL Server Management Studio and SQL Prompt are open, and I’m ready to start work! 10.00AM – Prompt Tab History I Read more
A SQL Prompt snippet is a pre-defined block of code, which we can insert at the current cursor position, or around currently-selected SQL text, in an SSMS query pane. DBAs use them to store all their most commonly-used checks and routines. It’s often useful to have your favorite troubleshooting scripts available to you within a Read more
In SSMS, we have access to templates that provide building blocks for creating various types of query, common routines to create various schema objects, or to do common DBA tasks such as running backups. We can also use SSMS T-SQL code snippets to define the basic structure for a block of code or a T-SQL Read more
After we released SQL Prompt 8, our priority was to continue to support the new formatting engine by fixing any bugs and reviewing feedback from users. One of the recurring patterns we noticed in your feedback regarded parentheses formatting. Some of you told us you couldn’t format the parentheses exactly the way you wanted to. Read more
You’ve got SQL Prompt, but are you aware of all the things it can do and how to get Prompt to do it? In this article, Phil Factor provides a handy table to make it obvious. As soon as you open SQL Prompt and start typing, its IntelliSense suggestion window will pop up, offering context-specific Read more
By default, SQL Prompt shows code auto-completion suggestions automatically, and continuously. In practice, when writing code, this means that the suggestion box pops up whenever SQL Prompt thinks it can make a useful suggestion, which is at virtually every keystroke. That isn’t the way that many of us want it to work. Sometimes, as programmers, Read more
Usually, when coding SQL, you will want to go along with the coding style of the team you are working with. In my previous articles on SQL Prompt, I explained why a team of programmers might want to adopt a T-SQL coding standard, how SQL Prompt could make this easier, and then how to use Read more
Compliant Database DevOps
