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Some noobie initial comments

I hadn't come accross the atadore product, but had looked at other qa replacement products that had intellisense, but didn't really find they provided the full set of qa "features" (for want of a better word) to allow them to really replace QA etc.

As a result this is my first real look at an intellisence plug in for QA et al. The QA integration is important for me because I still have to use it in environments where I can't even install SSMS (XP SP2 is banned) even if I wanted to use it for SQL2K.

Following on from all of the comments in this post, some more suggestions and votes seconding existing suggestions...

I think space should select the currently highlighted entry - as per "standard" intellisence - I keep on getting the first few characters of an entry because I hit space to select it instead of tab.

Unlike QA, presents all DBs on a server rather than those that the UID being used has rights to (for example, in USE dbname).

Options to auto format indenting would make this a must have "style police" tool.
Bernard Sheppard
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  • Bernard Sheppard
    Following on from the scroll to candidate list rather than filter suggestion elsewhere, a more context sensitive candidate list would be good.

    For example, if I include functions & system functions in the options, they naturally sort to the top of the list - but most of the time I'm actually interested in columns - particularly columns on tables already referred to in my query.

    As a result, columns for tables already included in a query should filter to the top of the list - making the list a more useful reminder when you don't know the name of the column you're interested in - so you want to select from a list.

    So, if I have all (or most) options selected in the Items to show in candidate list, and my query so far is select * from aardvarks a join zebras z on a.id = z.id where@CONNECTIONS.

    If I actually do want to use a system function, then typing @ will bring it into focus.
    Bernard Sheppard
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  • PDinCA
    Bernards, "put columns at the top of the list and functions last" really gets my vote. v1.4 is a good tool, but it is frustrating to have to turn off useful options in order to see the columns...
    PDinCA
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  • kkozera
    I agree, having an option to group columns together at the top and functions together at the bottom is something that would be really helpful...
    kkozera
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