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New feature candidate: SQL Tab Magic available in BETA

Hello! Here at Red Gate weâ€™ve been working on a new feature for the next major release of SQL Prompt. Itâ€™s called SQL Tab Magic, and it improves tab management in SQL Server Management Studio. ...

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Hey John, We are actually working on the tab problem--seems pretty common--and it would be great to get your feedback on some of our early designs. Would you be available for a short chat sometime soon or if you'd prefer, provide some feedback on our mock-ups via email? If so, drop me an email and we can figure out the details. It would be great to get your input. Hope to hear from you... Luke Jefferson Product Manager Red Gate Software E: luke.jefferson@red-gate.com / comments

Hey John, We are actually working on the tab problem--seems pretty common--and it would be great to get your feedback on some of our early designs. Would you be available for a short chat sometime ...

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I'll ask a developer to take a look at this. Luke Jefferson Product Manager Red Gate Software E: luke.jefferson@red-gate.com / comments

I'll ask a developer to take a look at this. Luke Jefferson Product Manager Red Gate Software E: luke.jefferson@red-gate.com

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Hi Michael, We do take all bugs very seriously but please understand we have to prioritize everything we do. We try to rank bugs on their frequency, the number of people affected (which we monitor via a combination of our own error reporting software and JIRA) and their estimated severity. We review high priority bugs every sprint, so about every two weeks, and allocate a portion of every sprint to tackling them. We tackled 15 user-reported bugs over the course of the SQL Prompt 5.1 release and we recently emailed the 227 SQL Prompt users who reported those bugs asking them to download a beta version for further testing. A bug that causes a crash for a large number of users has to take priority over an enhancement for a small number of users. I agree we should try to improve the visibility of reported bugs and Iâ€™ll have a think about the best way to improve this situation going forward. Sharing all issues would be counterproductive as there are literally thousands of very particular and nuanced requests; there are several hundred formatting issues alone. We are trying to improve the feedback process and believe this will eventually translate to a better product. We will soon be announcing a product blog where we hope to share more frequent builds: perhaps we could start by announcing the bugs that are going to be tackled? The team introduced Uservoice to help users report, vote on and prioritize feature requests. We figured this was easier to manage, for both the team and SQL Prompt users, than having them scattered across forum posts. We have to prioritize everything we do and having our users help with the prioritizationâ€”by limiting the number of votes they haveâ€”really helps us figure out what to tackle next. Itâ€™s far from ideal but I believe itâ€™s a step in the right direction. In short, we try to do our very best for our users with the information we have and the resources available. Iâ€™d be happy to chat about this and future plans for SQL Prompt. All the best, Luke Jefferson Product Manager Red Gate Software E: luke.jefferson@red-gate.com / comments

Hi Michael, We do take all bugs very seriously but please understand we have to prioritize everything we do. We try to rank bugs on their frequency, the number of people affected (which we monitor ...

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Hi, Thanks for posting to this forum and sharing your suggestion. I agree that it would be useful to run the feature in this way but sadly due to the way it's currently implemented would not make this is a trivial addition. Can I ask how you currently source control your .sql scripts? We might look at introducing these types of checks to our Source Control product. In any case, I have made a note of your request and will look into doing this in the future should we rework this portion of the code base. Please feel free to email me directly with any more suggestions. All the best, Luke Jefferson Product Manager Red Gate Software E: luke.jefferson@red-gate.com / comments

Hi, Thanks for posting to this forum and sharing your suggestion. I agree that it would be useful to run the feature in this way but sadly due to the way it's currently implemented would not make t...

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/*--------- Do you have a feature suggestion for SQL Search?

Hi, We receive lots of feature requests for SQL Search, so in an attempt to increase their visibility and to make it easier for you to vote on the ones you'd like to see in a future version of SQL ...

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Do you have a feature suggestion for SQL Prompt?

Hi, We receive lots of feature requests for SQL Prompt, so in an attempt to increase their visibility and to make it easier for you to vote on the ones you'd like to see in a future version of SQL ...

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Hi, Thanks for reporting this issue. I've just checked and SQL Prompt always uses UTC as the default, like you predicted. Ideally, we'd detect the correct time zone or let you specify it in the options. This is the first time I've seen this reported as an issue. How much of a problem is this for you? Regards, Luke Jefferson Product Manager Red Gate Software E: luke.jefferson@red-gate.com / comments

Hi, Thanks for reporting this issue. I've just checked and SQL Prompt always uses UTC as the default, like you predicted. Ideally, we'd detect the correct time zone or let you specify it in the opt...

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Hi Klaus, Thanks for chasing this up. Synonym support has not fallen off our radar--it's right in the center, along with support for XML. The problem is that they all require serious engineering effort--the last major rewrite took 12 months with a six person team. That said, there is a growing demand for these issues to be resolved so don't write them off just yet. I'm hoping to put something in place this week to make it easier for users to give weight to these types of feature request and to make sure they don't get lost or scattered across multiple forums. Cheers, Luke / comments

Hi Klaus, Thanks for chasing this up. Synonym support has not fallen off our radar--it's right in the center, along with support for XML. The problem is that they all require serious engineering ef...

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Hi, Thanks for the post. I think this was originally by design but it's a textbook case of software trying to be smart but not smart enough. We noticed users often typed the closing ' or ) regardless so we wanted to prevent inserting two, which makes sense when you write out statements in one pass but sometimes falls over when you then go back and want to make edits, as is often the case. I agree, this behaviour is annoying but unfortunately it was beyond the scope of this release, which focused on merging and retiring SQL Refactor. Regards, Luke Jefferson Product Manager Red Gate Software E: luke.jefferson@red-gate.com / comments

Hi, Thanks for the post. I think this was originally by design but it's a textbook case of software trying to be smart but not smart enough. We noticed users often typed the closing ' or ) regardle...

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