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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. Summary
    Data grid does not display fractional seconds in the Results Grid according to the actual precision defined by SQL Server datetime datatypes. The grid appears to default to millisecond display regardless of the underlying column scale.

    Problem Description
    SQL Server supports multiple datetime-related datatypes, each with well-defined precision and storage semantics:

    smalldatetime (minute precision)
    datetime (fixed, ~3.33 ms increments)
    datetime2(p) where p = 0 through 7
    datetimeoffset(p) where p = 0 through 7
    expressions such as AT TIME ZONE, which return datetimeoffset(7)

    In dbForge Studio for SQL Server version 2025.2.138, the Results Grid does not display fractional seconds based…

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  2. This worked in the version last version ( 7.x.x? ) of DB ForgeStudio for SQL SERVER prior to the 2025 series... How can I down grade until this is fixed?

    Steps to reproduce.
    - Place Vertical Bar in first column
    - HOLD ALT KEY
    - SELECT TEXT COLUMN UP
    - <ERROR HERE> TYPE ANY CHARACTER ( {COMMA} " , " | {SINGLE QUOTE} " ' " )

    No text inserted

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  3. Using DbForge Studio for Sql Server Enterprise Edition 2025.3.107 (License Type: Perpetual) :

    My table (FundDocument ) has a PK defined : FundDocumentId INT NOT NULL , unique.
    1) When I run this T-Sql it shows the record normally without problems when I go into edit mode:
    SELECT
    *
    FROM funddocument
    WHERE FundDocumentId = 103741;

    2) But when I run this T-Sql it says "Unique key is missing" when I go into edit mode:
    DECLARE @id INT = 103741;
    SELECT
    *
    FROM funddocument
    WHERE FundDocumentId = @id;

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  4. Search does not remember 'look in' settings. The default is 'all open documents' which causes user to jump out of document (quickly enough it's easy to miss) when practically every other editor there is defaults to current document.
    This is a major issue when it comes to search/replace accidentally being triggered across documents which is almost never what you want to do.
    Either allow the default to be changed or remember the previous setting.

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  5. If I have the following SQL:

    EXEC sp_rename @objname='ardbPcbRelatedGames.PcbRelatedGamesID', @newname='PcbRelatedGameID', @objtype='COLUMN'

    A dialog will pop up asking for the values for @objname, @newname and @objtype. Those already have values provided and it doesn't need to ask me for them.

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  6. When you do a Block Selection (ALT + Drag Mouse) to select a block of text then you paste into that, the results are corrupt.

    I can provide video or pictures for additional Details.

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  7. It will not save that column. I get an error about the )

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  8. Schema compare is incorrectly marking scripts as "update" yet text wise they are completely identical (including control characters and white spaces)

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  9. Take two identical databases on different SQL Server instances (or on prem vs Azure). Ensure they are identical by doing a schema compare. Take a data generation file that is configured and works for one database. Take that file and change the target to the new database. The pre-existing configuration does not get applied to the new database.

    The workaround is to create a copy of the existing data generation file, open the new configuration .dgen file in a text editor and change the ConnectionString line in the xml to match the new database's properties. In order to get the…

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  10. Fix issue with diagram tool auto redrawing relationship lines when tables are dropped and recreated with no changes to relationships from old to new tables.

    Specifically I reverse engineered my tables into the database diagraming tool. Then painstakingly organized the tables then adjusted all the relationship lines so they take a short path and do not cross then saved the diagram.

    When re-opening it everything is fine. But - if I ever drop and recreate the tables (e.g. with a script to change the schema) the diagram tool auto-redraws all the relationships and the diagram becomes a mess.

    Please fix.…

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  11. SELECT * FROM BaseProfile A
    JOIN Base
    Profile_Trl A1 ON A.ID = A1.ID WHERE A1.id=20200215

    edit table:BaseProfileTrl,After editing one row of data, I found that the entire table got updated.

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  12. There is an error on list object permissions on Security Manager (on specific database or all server)

    SQL Server: 2022 Enterprise Core
    dbForge Studio for SQL Server: 6.4.7

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  13. The window selection dialogs have a Name and a Path column. You can resize the dialog to your heart's content, but it will not have any effect on the width of the Name. Which, if the window is displaying a DB object, will have the schema part of the name prepended. Which, if th. e schema part of the name is long enough to be useful, will cause the interesting part of the name to be truncated.

    Provide an affordance that will allow users to resize the width of the Name column in the window selection dialog. Alternatively, provide a…

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  14. When I reformat the document it doesn't put Aliases, Table Names or Column Names in [] even though I have that option on.

    Formatting should enforce the rules I have in place. I want Table Names, Column Names, Aliases all enclosed in [].

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  15. When I open an existing stored procedure or view with Modify menu item, dbForge studio formatting is automatically applied. Is there a way to prevent this?

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  16. if you write part of a column name, intellisense gives you a list to chose from, but automatically selects the first row, so you can confirm the choice by pressing TAB. That works in WHERE, ON, GROUP BY, ORDER BY statement, but not in SELECT. I am quite sure that in one old Release this worked. not sure, why it does not anymore.
    Right now in SELECT you have to write part of the column name and then use cursor down to select the first item on the list, then press tab.

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  17. When we do an import for dbf file, the first file is ready to create a new table with the file name for the table's name. At the end, when the import is done, we can click on "Import more". We select a new dbf file but it tries to import in an existing table or the previous table name and a number at the end. It must always be the file name for the table name when we want to import to a new table.
    Thanks a lot!

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  18. Since V.6.0.563 in the diagram fonctionnality, the Container's title and the stamp's text color are white, resulting in very hard to read titles for the containers and impossible text to read in stamps.

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  19. If a DML query contains an error, the file is not saved. It is absurd to have to go into Notepad to save a file.

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  20. When a value is changed in the Data Editor, the Data Editor logic compares the value with the existing value and makes a decision whether to update the existing value based on whether the new value is considered different. Currently, this equality comparison is case insensitive, which is a bug. It must be case sensitive. SSMS will update data based upon consideration for case sensitivity, but not the Data Editor.

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