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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. Hi,
    It would be good to add a "modified date" filter to the defaults. Currently it is very hard to display only recently modified elements.

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  2. There should be possible to rename a tab. This should override the SSMS Caption template. It should not override the filename if it is a file that is saved to disk.

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  3. Ability To Hide Relationships On A Diagram

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  4. It would be very helpful to rename tabs, or at least provide a customisable format beyond the default. It's very hard to remember which SQLx.sql tab you need to switch to when you've got several open at once.

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    This feature is available in dbForge SQL Complete and can be setups as follows:
    1. Select ‘SQL Complete → Options…’ from the main menu. The ‘Options’ window opens.
    2. Navigate to the ‘SSMS Caption’ section.

  5. Please, make it possible to connect MS SQL help in dbForge. Following this improvement need to use sql server management studio completely disappear.

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  6. Add a "By name" button next to DDL. This would be similar to DDL, but would exclude definitions (e.g., it would include SP name but not SP definition). This would allow use of dbForge to quickly look for for specific SPs or tables as a more convenient/faster alternative to SSMS object explorer. It is possible to set the object types to only include procedures, but doing so still includes contents, which makes for a search that is both slower and noisier.

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    1. The routed line that maps relationship of the table to the parent with a foreign key align the line drawn between them to the columns mapped, so that easy to visualize the exact FK column matching visually.

    2. That an additional display option allowed. Instead of just CONSTRAINTS alone, offer a Foreign Key option. This pane at the bottom wouldn't be the name of the foreign key, but instead the myid - references Accounts(Id) This would make the documentation easier to use.

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  7. It is typical to write or extend a sql stmt on the top of a query window and to see the result in the bottom.
    dbForge has not that standard behaviour for this window. My Suggestion is to configure or save the last the window layout as it will be needed.
    I know there are two buttons in the bottom to click on to change this layout but when you work the whole day with this tool and you have click 200 times a day these both buttons it's getting bothersome and not a good user experience.

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  8. I would like to see a "File -> Rename" command (like in Notepad++).

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  9. Show column totals (sum) or average at the bottom of the column. This would be great with a right click of the column header then click then click Group Footer then click Sum or Average

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  10. Add the ability to define the query executed on a Right-Click / Retrieve Data.

    I use this feature frequently and always go in and edit the query to order by id desc. It would be nice to be able to override the standard select *.

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  11. It would be great if the results pane a consistent height rather than resizing to the take up all available space not used by the query. Sometimes you'll run a query that to get an idea of the type of data in a table but mean to expand on the query. With the current set up you have to resize the results window to write a multi line query after running the initial one line query.

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    Please note that you can redirect the query result to the Data window:

    1. Select ‘Tools → Options…’. The ‘Options’ window opens.
    2. Navigate to the ‘Environment → Documents → SQL documents’ section.
    3. Select ‘Redirect data to Data window if Data view is closed’.

  12. Add schema name into database diagram tables names, eg into brackets like in SSMS

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  13. In SSMS, when you search for a term, all locations of that term are highlighted on the scrollbar, making it easy to navigate to the locations of that term and to know where they appear in the file. In dbForge Studio, you can bookmark all, but that requires you to scroll through the entire document to find all instances and does not provide a complete picture of all of the places the term appears.

    This is a very important feature that is missing for me as I rely on that heavily in SSMS. I would like to see similar functionality…

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  14. Add filter for data search.
    Example: search for '1234' value in tables containing 'abcd' substring in table name and/or in fields having 'id' name only.

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  15. When you filter the objects in the Explorer->Tables view
    It only logical that the auto completion in the Sql script would be filtered too.

    Maybe an option inside Options -> Code Completion -> "Use filtering on objects" would allow the user to select the desired flavor.

    If you have that option selected, when you do a filter in object explorer, when you are writing a sql sentence autocompleting tables, it only shows tables with that particular filter.

    Thank you.

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  16. I like to create visualizations of Data Warehouses using dbforge. In a Data Warehouse, foreign keys are typically not created physically.
    If I could create data base diagrams in dbforge, importing existing tables and creating virtual foreign keys it would be the perfect tool for DWH documentation.

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  17. When working with multiple scripts, being able to further organize them in the editor panel would be helpful, especially as a DBA. Or, as an alternative to tab groups, perhaps a project panel where scripts can be organized into virtual folders for quick access could be added.

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  18. When entering parameter values on a stored procedure of the type of datetime or smalldatetime the datetime picker defaults to the current time, but might better default to midnight or allow the user to quickly change the time to midnight (such as a button click) as it is too laborious to change all of the times to midnight, which I'd guess may be the most common usage for stored procedure/function datetime/smalldatetime entries (dates without the time).

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  19. I purchase the licenses for my dev team, so when I purchase two licenses, one for myself (SQL Tools) and a separate on for one of my devs (Schema Compare) I would like to indicate which is assigned to whom. Currently on the License information page, both appear assigned to me. While two folks is easy, if we grow our usage of your products further, I would like to know who I've assigned which licenses to, while keeping them all under the one account.

    All I'm looking for is a field that I as the customer can note this type…

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