How to Compare Two SQL Prompt Styles

A PowerShell function that will compare two SQL formatting styles, saved in JSON, and produce a report showing the differences between the options they use to lay out your SQL code. Read more

Using Aliases in SQL Prompt

Phil Factor explores the role of table aliases, explaining when they are required, and their general purpose otherwise, the need for sensible naming of aliases, and how SQL Prompt handles them. Read more

SQL Prompt by Keyboard

Phil Factor shares a handy keyboard shortcut diagram that reveals some of the most useful of Prompt's keyboard shortcuts, and a wallchart showing every piece of Prompt functionality, what it does, where to find it in the various menus, and of course its keyboard shortcut. Read more

Controlling how SQL Prompt Formats your Code: The Knobs and Dials

Phil Factor explores and discusses the current state of the art in SQL Formatting, as done automatically by SQL Prompt. Read more

How to Apply Non-Standard SQL Formatting Using SQL Prompt

SQL Prompt not only will format your code exactly as you want, but will also help you switch quickly to an alternative style, or to apply exceptions to certain parts of a SQL script, where your preferred style isn't what's required. Read more

SQL Prompt as a Layout Tool: A Survival Guide

Phil Factor's guide to taming SQL Prompt code layout options, and getting it to format code exactly the way you like it. Read more

Driving up database coding standards using SQL Prompt

A strategic view of how a development team can use SQL Prompt to establish and share coding standards, through code analysis rules, formatting styles and code snippets. Read more

How to reformat a database in one operation

Inherited a database from another team? Changed your team policy on the way that you format SQL? What's to stop you formatting the code of an entire database nicely, when you're developing it? Manually, the process can take longer than you expect. Phil Factor demonstrates a simple 3-step approach to reformatting a whole database , in a single operation, using SQL Compare and SQL Prompt. Read more

A day in the life of a developer with SQL Prompt

Write, refine, format and test a reporting query before lunch then refactor a database, and retest the new design, afterwards. All in a day's work for a developer armed with SQL Prompt. Read more

How we used your feedback to improve parentheses formatting in SQL Prompt 8.1

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

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