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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. Spread connection categories marking to single objects

    Extend the connection categories marking feature so the objects (tables, views, procedures, etc) belonging to the connection also have the same marking as the corresponding connection.

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  2. DBForge Studio is not handling DATETIME2 in MSSQL Server

    CREATE TABLE #Table1 ( c1 int, c2 DATETIME2)
    ;

    SELECT * FROM #Table1;

    INSERT INTO #Table1 (c1,c2) VALUES (1, SYSUTCDATETIME ());

    --dbforge returns: 7/29/2015 8:58:48 AM
    --sqlstudio returns: 2015-07-29 09:00:32.5318459

    -- we are missing the nanoseconds

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    completed  ·  AdminDevart (_, Devart) responded

    This can be setup as follows:

    1. Select ‘Tools → Options’ from the main menu. The ‘Options’ window opens.
    2. Navigate to the ‘Data Editor → Formatting’ branch.
    3. Select ‘DateTime’ from the ‘Data type’ dropdown menu.
    4. In the ‘Predefined Formats’ list, select ‘General date/time (longtime with microseconds)’.
    5. Click ‘OK’.

  3. Refresh option in Data Import wizard

    When I use the import wizard it would be handy to have a refresh option. If I'm partway through the wizard and decide I'd like to create a table manually, I can't then specify that table to import to without closing the wizard, force a refresh and start all over again

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  4. Hi. I suggest to add the feature for select only a database, on Connection Properties.

    Include the option for to open only the connection with database specified.

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  5. Ao tentar executar consulta na primeira vez

    Quando executo uma consulta pela primeira vez, após a carga da aplicação, nada é exibido. Somente após fechar uma das janelas é que consigo voltar a visualizar a saída dos resultados.

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  6. password change on expiry

    My dba set a security policy to reset the users sql password once a month.
    When i log in using MS-SSMS, when the change password is due, the application tells me that the password is expired already and then offers me to change my sql password immediately.
    DbForge just tells me that i cannot use my old password.
    Can you add this change password on expiry feature please?

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    completed  ·  AdminDevart (_, Devart) responded

    Now, the updated view editor contains the text of the view as well as the visual representation of the query on the diagram.

  7. Autosize

    Last beta version does not autosize the result set (regression). You have to retrieve multiple times to get the results aligned properly.

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  8. In Database Explorerer it should be possible to see the data type and NULL/NOT NULL settings of fields like in SSMS

    In Database Explorer it should be possible to see the data type and NULL/NOT NULL settings of fields like in SSMS.

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  9. Bring back the single-DB Connection

    The Single DB feature was removed in V5, and I would like to see it brought back

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  10. How to create column of type nvarchar(max)?

    The "column properties" dialog does not list that data type.

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  11. Invalid error line for "Display Estimated Execution Plan"

    use this script for test:
    DECLARE @FILENAME AS NVARCHAR(500),
    @FILE    NAMEPRE AS NVARCHAR(500),
    @FILE    NAMESUF AS NVARCHAR(500),
    @SQL    STMT AS NVARCHAR(MAX)

        SET @SQL_STMT = 
'SELECT 
        t1.*,
        CASE WHEN c1 IS NULL
             THEN ''Y''
             ELSE ''N''
        END AS [COLUMN1],
        t2.c3
   FROM t1
   LEFT JOIN (SELECT *
                FROM (VALUES
(''v1'',''v1'',''v1''),
(''v2','v2','v2''),
(''v3'',''v3'',''v3'')) RET (c1, c2, c3)) t2 ON t1.c1 = t2.c2 '

    if you press "Display Estimated Execution Plan", then the first line will be highlighted with an error: Incorrect syntax near ','.
    But if you press "Execute" then correct one will be highlighted

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  12. Skin styled images not showing in menu

    If you set "Use styled images" in options, all the icons/images use this setting except for the cell edit cascade menu... as shown here:

    http://tinypic.com/r/2cmvvwn/9

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  13. F3 button not working properly

    Normally, if I do an incremental search (CTRL+I) or a normal search (CTRL+F), pressing F3 takes you to the next location of your search text in the current file. With DBForge it seems to jump all over the place. The only place it doesn't take you to is the next location in the current file, which basically makes it impossible to use.

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  14. Execute current statement : CTRL+ENTER

    CTRL+ENTER to execute the current statement, or be able to set the key combination(s) in Options.

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    completed  ·  AdminDevart (_, Devart) responded

    This can be achieved as follows:

    1. Select ‘Tools → Options…’ from the main menu. The ‘Options’ window opens.
    2. Navigate to the ‘Environment → Keyboard’ branch.
    3. Type ‘Sql.ExecuteCurrent’ in the ‘Show Commands Containing’ field.
    4. Select the found ‘Sql.ExecuteCurrent’ command in the list below.
    5. In the ‘Use new shortcut in’ field, select ‘Text Editor’.
    6. Set the focus in the ‘Press shortcut keys’ field and press the required key combination.
    7. Click the ‘Assign’ button.
    8. Click ‘OK’.

  15. Autocomplete doesn't work if table belongs to schema and no alias or schema name used in join.

    Example:
    select *
    from Schema1.Table1 join Schema1.Table2 on Table1.[AutoComplete doesn't show table fields]

    select *
    from Schema1.Table1 T1 join Schema1.Table2 T2 on T1. [AutoComplete works properly]

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  16. Allow connection to SQL Server running on Ubuntu

    I was able to connect to SQL Server running on Ubuntu with SQL Server Management Studio. Be nice to do it with dbForge. Got the error message that the version of SQL Server wasn't supported when I tried.

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  17. Licensing

    Every time I update db Forge I end up in the situation where it asks me for my license. This is so annoying because I then end up in this loop where I have to find my license details, enter them in, get an error message because it is not happy with it, then contact you guys to get a new license. Why can't you just remember the license and not ask me for it again until it expires. I have a team of developers who ran the update this morning and are now unable to do any work until…

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  18. Mouse wheel does not scroll the Database Explorer tree list

    I have a database server with many dozens of databases containing many hundreds of objects (tables, views, etc.) each. I use the mouse scroll wheel to scroll this list in MS SSMS and I would hope to be able to do this with dbForge Studio.

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  19. 5.4.211 crashes upon schema synchronization

    5.4.211 crashes upon schema synchronization

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  20. Unable to fix bugs

    I have reported a few bugs over the past few months, and although you are good at responding and looking into this there seems to be a few bugs that you can't seem to get right.

    1. Upgrading. It is always painful. Links that you publish to download the upgrade don't work. There are always licencing/activation problems, etc. I upgraded yesterday as advised (having gone through the normal pain to find the right place to download), and everything seemed to work. Yet today I am asked to enter my activation key yet again. Why can't you just make the upgrade seamless?…

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