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I was a PromptSQL customer and am now a SQLPrompt customer. Red Gate has made enormous improvements to this product in the form of bug fixes and useability enhancements. This is a major upgrade to the PromptSQL product and as such I think that Red Gate is right in asking PromptSQL users for an upgrade fee.
Off the top of my head I can't think of any software company that doesn't charge for major upgrades. Usually upgrades are "free" when you have a maintenance/service contract with the software company. We have to pay for such contracts and are therefore, in essence, paying for our upgrades.
This is my position on the topic.
Mike G. / comments
I was a PromptSQL customer and am now a SQLPrompt customer. Red Gate has made enormous improvements to this product in the form of bug fixes and useability enhancements. This is a major upgrade to ...
Visual Studio Support
Will SQL Prompt ever support the Visual Studio 2003/2005 SQL editor?
Thanks,
Mike G.
The same issue just happened to me. Beta 3 has just told me that my trial expired. I purchased SQLPrompt back in October but I don't think I was ever given a licence.
Can you help? / comments
The same issue just happened to me. Beta 3 has just told me that my trial expired. I purchased SQLPrompt back in October but I don't think I was ever given a licence.
Can you help?
VS .NET 2003/2005
Are there plans to support the SQL editors in VS .NET 2003 or 2005?
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So I called your sales team to revoke my subscription and was offered a bundled package wich includes SQL Refactor, SQL Dependancy Tracker, and (now useless to me) SQL Prompt 3. This bundle was offered at no additional cost. The Refactor and Dependancy Tracker tools seem like they may be very useful so I decided to take the bundle and give them a try. The Red-Gate representative indicated that this would be at 'no risk' meaning that if I wasn't satisfied that I could still get a refund.
Even though I'm very disapointed at the turn that SQL Prompt has taken, I think that the folks at Red-Gate are making a sincere effort to try and make it up to those that have been adversely affected by their decisions regarding SQL Prompt. / comments
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So I called your sales team to revoke my subscription and was offered a bundled package wich includes SQL Refactor, SQL Dependancy Tracker, and (now useless to me) SQL Prompt 3. This bundle ...
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I agree with ajk-eis that this is a very unwelcome surprise. Our development team does the vast majority of their SQL development with Visual Studio 2003 and SQL Prompt 2 works with this product. All of our SQL scripts are in database projects and checked into source control. Using Visual Studio allows our developers to use 1 IDE to both edit our scripts and manage them in source control.
I can't recall any communication that indicated that this functionality would be removed from version 3. Since we have not yet migrated to SQL Server 2005 this means that the only tool in our shop that is supported by SQL Prompt will be Query Analyzer which is used in our shop mainly for ad-hoc queries and analysis.
I'm sorry to say that this customer will be calling your sales team to revoke my subscription. / comments
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I agree with ajk-eis that this is a very unwelcome surprise. Our development team does the vast majority of their SQL development with Visual Studio 2003 and SQL Prompt 2 works with this pro...
Upgrade Path from PromptSQL 1.x
I see that SQLPrompt 2.0 is a free download until September 1st. Is this when SQLPrompt 3.0 Is due to be released? Will those of us who have purchased PromptSQL 1.x have a free upgrade to SQLPrompt...
I agree with most in this post. I have been using PromptSQL for a while now and it is a good convenient product but has a few quirks. The old price point is low enough for a developer to buy at his/her own expense however $95 is just too steep for that. If all of the bugs and quirky behavior was fixed then I think that $50 would be a good price point and a developer could likely afford this out of their own pocket.
A price point of $95 would likely require the developer to justify this expense to their employer if they couldn't (or won't) pay this as an out of pocket expense. With the current features in 1.4 even with all of the bugs fixed I think it would be a hard sell to most employers. If there were additional features in the 2.0 release along with the bugs and quirks being removed then it may be easier to justify the expense to an employer depending on what those features were and the potential productivity gains that could be realized by thise features. / comments
I agree with most in this post. I have been using PromptSQL for a while now and it is a good convenient product but has a few quirks. The old price point is low enough for a developer to buy at his...