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auto insert - scope of functionality
If I define an alias i.e. customers as cst in the 'auto insert' section, I would expect to then be able to do the following:
select cst.<prompt showing all columns in customers>
I would also expect...
flickery blank tooltips when hovering away from end of line
If I move the cursor up and down in the white space at the end of code, it attempts to show tooltips despite nothing being there.
auto insert - user defined aliases are ignored
I have
name alias
issue iss
set up in the options dialog.
When I type "issue" it puts "i" at the end instead of iss (when selecting with autocomplete)
If I don't select the table using autocompl...
suggestion: auto insert underscores in object names
so if my object is called
really_annoyingly_named_object_by_third_party_company
I can just type
reallyannoyinglynam... then it will find it in the dd and i can save all that needless _ pressing!!
suggestion: tooltip on datatype to show more info
currently if I hover on tinyint, I see "TINYINT(datatype)"
this is a bit of a SOTBO*
why not have it say something like
"tinyint (range 0-255, 1byte, click here for BOL)"
*statement of the bleedin ...
suggestion: double click object returns predefined query
In options have default code to fire
could be "sp_help object" or "select top 10 * from object"
and maybe even custom code
for table "bob" return "select top 10 * from bob where date > ..."
When th...
suggestion: temp bookmarks to partial execution on F5
Sometimes within a query, I am running small parts of it.
This means having to constantly select the particular section of code and F5 it.
Is there a way you could quickly define bookmarks (by clic...
add 2008 SSMS editor syntax error squiggle to features
This is mildly useful, but due to the awful way in which the options are presented in the options dialog (in SSMS) you can't have the squiggle without having intellisense on.
SSMS intellisense + sq...
"select *" tab expand does not respect comma placement rule
enter ssf * from x
go back to * and hit TAB to expand the cols
commas are placed at the end of the line
my layout setting is to put it at the beginning
not working in SELECT, working in FROM
My query is not showing columns when hitting "." in the SELECT part of the query
Other functionality works (caps, AS etc)
It is working fine in the FROM part.
Occurs in SQL2008 and SQL2005.
Have tr...