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dbForge Studio for SQL Server

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. Git source control

    Add Git source control option (SVN and TFS are already supported). I find that the concept of Git and how it works fits really well with our database development flow.

    89 votes
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  2. Provide an option to increase the font size of the Database Explorer.

    Allow us to adjust the font size in the database explorer pane.

    86 votes
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    completed  ·  AdminDevart (_, Devart) responded

    This can be changed as follows:
    1. Select ‘Tools → Options…’ from the main menu. The ‘Options’ window opens.
    2. Navigate to the ‘Environment → Font and Colors’
    3. In the ‘Show settings for’ drop-down menu, select
    ‘Database Explorer’.
    4. Specify the needed font and size.

  3. XML Viewer for XML Data type

    In MSSQL Management Studio you have ability to view xml document returned from query or sp, as pretty formatted SQL document. It opens in separate window (fullscreen).
    It is a must have feature in dbForge Studio for SQL Server

    60 votes
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  4. Support for more source control systems

    Especially systems that provide a command line tool to perform tasks like CheckIn/CheckOut/AddFile ...
    E.g. Seapine Surround or others

    55 votes
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  5. Running database script against multiple databases on a server

    For example, on our server, we currently have over 400 event databases. We would need to copy and paste the line to call the execute function 400 times and change the database name on each line.

    It would a great feature if SQL Studio could give us a list of all databases on the server we connect to (with a check box next to each one), with an option to "select all". It would then automatically execute the query against all checked databases.

    This would save us a lot of time, and would mean your product has all the functionality…

    54 votes
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  6. Ability to generate insert/update stored-procedures for given table

    I like to right click a table name and dbforge should produce a stored procedure for insert/update out of it, like

    CREATE PROCEDURE tblTest1_IU
    @id Int,
    @[user] Int,
    @stamp DateTime2(6) AS
BEGIN
  IF EXISTS ( SELECT * FROM dbo.tblTest1 WHERE id = @id)
  UPDATE dbo.tblTest1 SET
    [user] = @[user],
    stamp = @stamp
  WHERE
    id = @id
  ELSE
  INSERT INTO dbo.tblTest1 (
    id,
    [user],
    stamp)
  VALUES (
    @id,
    @[user],
    @stamp)
END
    41 votes
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  7. Ability to include Text Compare results in SQL Schema Compare Report

    In dbForge Schema Compare for SQL Server you can see actual code difference in UI in Text Compare section. But when it produces a report there is no option to include Text Compare details. Report only has object level details.

    It would be useful to to have option of including actual Text Compare for automated notifications about schema changes.

    39 votes
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  8. Add database documentation tool

    It would be perfect to add database documentation feature.
    Generate documentation as CHM or/and as documentation project which could be used by third party tools like Help&Manual.

    38 votes
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  9. Ability to filter objects in Database Explorer

    36 votes
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  10. Export Database to SQL

    Add an ability to export database schema and (optionally) data to an SQL script.

    33 votes
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  11. Search query history like SSMS Tools Pack

    It'd be great if dbForge Studio could periodically save a copy of the query file in some temp folder and also provide an interface to search all that history (and not just the current window).

    32 votes
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  12. Easy Way To Hide Results

    In dbForge - as with SSMS - when you run a query, the results appear in a pane at the bottom. SSMS lets you easily toggle the visiblity of that pane with the Ctrl+R keyboard shortcut.

    You can do the same thing with dbForge but there's no keyboard shortcut for it. Instead you have to click on the little double down arrow button at bottom right.

    Please add a keyboard shortcut so it's easy to quickly toggle the visiblilty of the results pane.

    Thanks!

    28 votes
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  13. Data generator

    Redgate does a data generator that is quite useful. It looks at the schema for the tables and generates randomized (according to rules that you can select) data to fill them. It is quite useful when you need to say generate 100,000 rows for testing.

    28 votes
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  14. Color for connection

    Ability to associate a color to a connection, so that queries/tools open for that connection can have background or border of that color to remind you which connection you are working with. We have local dev/shared dev/qa/staging/production environments, and I would like to be able to visually differentiate which connection is being used.

    27 votes
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  15. List dependencies of database objects

    25 votes
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  16. Backup / Restore database

    Implement the ability to backup and restore databases just like in dbForge Studio for Oracle and dbForge Studio for MySQL.

    23 votes
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  17. Ability to create new database from popup menu in Database Explorer

    one glaring omission seems to be that you cannot create new databases using this tool - so I have to still revert to Management Studio to create the database, then switch to Devart for everything else.

    Is it possible you could add this functionality?

    21 votes
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  18. Quick jump to corresponding BEGIN <-> END

    Quick jump to corresponding BEGIN <-> END

    In bigger procedures with a lot of nasted BEGIN-ENDs it would be very useful to have a shortcut key or right mouse button option to jump to BEGIN/END corresponding to the one on which you currently have cursor.

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  19. Refactoring of existing queries

    Especially: renaming table aliases. Other suggestons:
    adding aliases, adding or removing AS keywords, replacing aliases with table names or vice versa, removing 'redundant' aliases or table names.

    18 votes
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  20. Better support for 4k monitors

    The scaling on 4k monitors is not very good. Most text is readable but some text like on the title bar and in code-completion dropdowns are being truncated. I have to override the high DPI scaling behavior and set it to System to make it more readable and user friendly. Of course, when I do this it makes some text like that on the start page slightly fuzzy.

    17 votes
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