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SQL Prompt Safety Net Features for SSMS: SQL History
Mistakes occasionally happen. Sometimes you accidentally close an SSMS query tab without saving it, before realizing it contained an essential bit of code. Occasionally, you make some ill-judged 'refinements' to working code and now just wish you could rewind your tab back in time an hour and forget the whole sorry episode. Now and again, SSMS just conspires against you and crashes unexpectedly, and you lose all your currently open query tabs, some of which you hadn't saved. SQL History offers a useful safety net in the event of any of these unfortunate events. Read moreSQL Prompt 10: What’s New?
Tony Davis reviews the major new features of SQL Prompt 10, included improved 'ranking' of its code auto-completion suggestions, tab history improvements to make it easier to find 'lost' code, and auto-fixing of code that breaks code analysis rules. Read moreSQL Productivity with SQL Prompt
There is an old joke that upgrading to the latest SQL Server is wasted on some DBAs, because they will still stick mainly to what worked in SQL Server 2005. This type of DBA is becoming rare, in my experience, but there is still some truth in the idea that many of us don’t get Read moreWhy your Development team needs SQL Prompt
While everyone knows SQL Prompt for its code completion and IntelliSense features, a lot of its extra value comes from features that allow the development team to standardize coding practices and drive up code quality. Read moreA 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 moreThe SQL Prompt Functionality Finder
You have SQL Prompt, but are you aware of all the things it can do and how to get it to do it? Phil Factor provides a handy table to make it obvious. Read moreSQL Prompt to the rescue with tab coloring
When you’re hard at work, it’s all too easy to make a mistake as you rush to get a job done. Say, for example, you have a QA database you need to get rid of. You run a query to drop it and then… oh no! You’ve accidentally run it in Production. Your day just Read moreQuick SQL Prompt tip – restore your tabs, even if you closed them by mistake
It’s sometimes too easy to close SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) without saving your work. It’s also easy to get rid of tabs and scripts that you later wish you had back. SQL Prompt can help with both these problems. Take a look at the Options for SQL Prompt and you’ll find a set of Read moreRedgate Hub
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