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dbForge Studio for SQL Server is an SQL server development tool incorporating query builder, data import/export and compare tools for managing and analyzing data.

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  1. I have several Master-Detail browser sessions that I use on a daily basis. When I reload them in the morning, it is necessary to SHIFT-click on the column headers in the Data view to set the sorting/sub-sorting. Is it possible to save the last known sort conditions for the tables involved in the design?

    There appears to be the beginnings of this feature in the Design panel. A person can highlight a column and press the 'Sort Ascending' or 'Sort Descending' buttons at the top of the tab window. When these are set, a little icon shows up indicating the…

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  2. It is fairly common in other tools/database (like Access for instance) for exported money or currency type fields to represent negative numbers by putting brackets around the value. Currently when such values are imported they give a truncation warning and put the value in as positive.

    (10.00) should go in as -10.00 instead of giving a warning and going in as 10.00.

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  3. Every now and then I use "Close all Windows", I would like to see an option where you can specify that the Startpage remains open all the time.

    Kind regards, Dinand Veldman

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  4. when clicking the DATA tab on a view, no indication that the query is running is shown. please add an indicator that query is running

    thx

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  5. i can get a list of columns in a table but not in a view.
    please add a tab on views to see column definitions.

    thanks

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  6. When filtering for tables and views I can currently filter by Name, Owner, Schema, or Creation Date, which is really helpful but it would be nice if you could add "Row Count" so I could filter by tables that actually contain data. I work with a database where about half the tables are completely empty so it would be nice to only show tables that contain some data.

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  7. It would be great if dbForge remembered what tables were open when a connection is opened. When working on a big project where lots of tables are being worked on every day, I have to spend quite some time re-opening the tables every morning before I can get any work done.

    An alternative would be to have the ability to save the currently open windows for a connection into a 'workspace' file.

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  8. I'm an advocate for your products, but there are certain functionalities in special products like SQL Sentry Plan Explorer, or text editors like Sublime Text 3 that are difficult to fully match.

    I would like an option to support "external tools" in your product so If I want to have an external tool open a sql plan directly in it, I would have some way to configure this. Additionally, the ability to open the current text file in another editor and reload changes as I switch between the two would be helpful.

    Ensuring some support for external tool access to…

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  9. be able to view the columns defined in a sql view like you can in a table.

    table view has a "columns" button
    want a columns button for views also

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  10. In SQL it is possible, when adding a column with a default value to a table with existing data, to set the value of the column in the existing rows to the default value:

    ALTER TABLE {TABLENAME}
    ADD {COLUMNNAME} {TYPE} {NULL|NOT NULL}
    CONSTRAINT {CONSTRAINTNAME} DEFAULT {DEFAULTVALUE}
    [WITH VALUES]

    I would like to select this option when adding a column to the table in the designer, and also be able to include the option when scripting the changes to the table - when a schema comparison is done, have the WITH VALUES option included in the script.

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  11. In the "Data Viewer and Editor" when using the Hexadecimal view it would be nice if the selection/cursor was highlighted or marked on both sides in some way. That way a user could select some hex values or some text and see visually what it is in the other format.

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  12. The Pivot Table is great, however it would be nice if it provided the SQL code, such that it can be used elsewhere. This would make for a great pivot builder.

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  13. provide a search field in the Visible Columns box. so I can filter the list by entering a word such as "next" and all field names with the word "next" appear.

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  14. When clicking on the filter icon in the data grid column (to enter a quick custom filter), the "Custom AutoFilter" dialog appears. I instinctly start to enter a value on my keyboard and realize that I need to manually click on the value textbox to set focus to that box to enter data. It would be great if when the "Custom AutoFilter" dialog opened, the value textbox already had focus to start typing right away.

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  15. When I am creating a query with the query builder and select a DateTime field in the WHERE clause (for example, a DateTime field so that the date is Between two dates), I have to manually enter the dates in for the between values. Clicking to dropdown next to the field, does not bring up a calendar to allow me to simply select a date. This would be a nice feature to have.

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  16. This would be a small quality of life improvement in the User Interface. When editing SQL, it would be handy to move the contents of the following line to the existing line.

    Example. Let's say the cursor is on line 8 and has an INNER JOIN table statement fragment on it. Line 9 has the ON part of the join condition. Pressing the keybind for "Join lines" would move up line 9 to the end of line 8 and move up all the following lines 10 through N to 9 through N.

    I do realize this can be automatically managed…

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  17. in the drop down for the Database Connections that list the connections to sql server and databases, please give an option for search ALL. we use 4 sql servers with views that point back to other servers. (Linked Servers)

    thx

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    Could you please provide us a screenshot of where exactly you would like it to be present?

    You can send a reply straight to our support system at supportATdevartDOTcom and alexaATdevartDOTcom

  18. An option to quickly get the update script for a single table in the opposite direction. (From Target back to source). I need to get all changes done by other developers and some developers make changes to one of two different databases, and I need to merge changes to/from the two main databases.

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  20. Event Profiler:
    Please add possibility to filter events directly from grid - simple RIGHT-CLICK on the cell, then [Include 'selected-value'], or [Exclude 'selected value'].
    This funktionality like in the SysInternals ProcMon

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