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Awesome, thanks! Just tried it and it works great!
I'll continue to work with it and let you know if I find any issues.
Thanks!
Steve / comments
Awesome, thanks! Just tried it and it works great!
I'll continue to work with it and let you know if I find any issues.
Thanks!
Steve
Hi David,
Thanks for the explanation about the alias ambiguity, that makes sense.
I'm not used to using aliases on my simple one line select statements, but since SQL Prompt handles it automatically, that is probably easier than constantly pressing CTRL+Space.
Thanks! / comments
Hi David,
Thanks for the explanation about the alias ambiguity, that makes sense.
I'm not used to using aliases on my simple one line select statements, but since SQL Prompt handles it automaticall...
Thanks David.
I would definitely appreciate an option that allowed the suggestion list to automatically appear in this situation, but I also understand the potential downside, as I do regularly encounter the situation where the suggestion list replaces something I didn't want to have replaced.
Thanks for the help and for educating me on how the features work. I now have a few options for workarounds.
Thanks,
Steve / comments
Thanks David.
I would definitely appreciate an option that allowed the suggestion list to automatically appear in this situation, but I also understand the potential downside, as I do regularly enc...
Hi David,
I'm just doing very simple single line queries to check the contents of tables while testing my software.
The most common snippet I use is ssf, so literally just SELECT * FROM table
It seems hit and miss on my SQL 2008 machine. It seems that a majority of the time, the suggestion list appears with the first few characters I type on a new line, but sometimes it doesn't. My guess is that my SQL 2008 server is slow occasionally, causing SQL Prompt to be less responsive.
Now that I understand the issue and symptoms, it isn't a big deal, and the snippets seem to work consistently on my SQL 2012 server.
Thanks for the help. / comments
Hi David,
I'm just doing very simple single line queries to check the contents of tables while testing my software.
The most common snippet I use is ssf, so literally just SELECT * FROM table
It se...
Well, I thought I was seeing consistent behavior, but this morning, SQL Prompt is not automatically displaying the suggestions list or expanding snippets with the space bar.
I'm not great at posting images on this style of forum page, but I'm going to try.
This is what I'm now seeing on my SQL 2012 machine--which I thought was working fine. This morning it just isn't displaying the suggestion box on this particular query window. [image]
Interestingly, if the query window is completely empty and I type "ssf", the suggestion window does appear. But after I have one SELECT statement in the query window, if I then type ssf again, the suggestion window does not appear.
So here is the first query on the window. [image]
And then any snippet after that is not triggering the suggestion window. [image]
I see that if I put a semi colon at the end of the first statement, or add the GO statement after the first statement, the suggestion window then starts to appear. So my assumption is that the suggestion window, and thus snippets, only works in some situations?
But then what seems odd is that if I don't complete a select statement, the suggestion window does work. The behavior of the suggestion window seems inconsistent. [image]
Is there any way to make the suggestion window always appear regardless of how many statements are present or in progress or in different states of completeness? / comments
Well, I thought I was seeing consistent behavior, but this morning, SQL Prompt is not automatically displaying the suggestions list or expanding snippets with the space bar.
I'm not great at postin...
Thanks David, that does seem to be the issue I'm observing.
A few hours after posting my question, I noticed that the space bar started working with snippets on the SQL 2008 machine. And testing again now, I notice that if I type the snippet and press the space bar quickly on that machine, the suggestion list sometimes does not open and the snippet does not expand. But other times the snippet expands fine even though the suggestion box did not open.
So it looks like there is a bit of latency or delay on that older server that makes it more noticeable.
Thanks! / comments
Thanks David, that does seem to be the issue I'm observing.
A few hours after posting my question, I noticed that the space bar started working with snippets on the SQL 2008 machine. And testing a...