SQL Server Team-based Development - Red Gate Software

Chapter 7: Maintaining a Code Library
set up testing for a wiki, because the storage format is so different from the usual simple
files, so automated testing will also require a lot more work.
SQL Prompt
Red Gate SQL Prompt is an add-on for SSMS which provides advanced code completion
functionality along with various code refactoring capabilities, as well as a built-in set of
Prompt snippets that can be incorporated into your scripts on the fly.
When SQL Prompt is installed and running on your machine, it puts an icon in your
system tray to indicate that it is monitoring activity within T-SQL windows in SSMS and
in Visual Studio. It keeps track of the database to which you're currently connected and,
in real time, loads each database's objects into its own management area. As you type, it
provides keyword completion, and attempts to predict the objects, tables, views, columns,
stored procedures, and so on, that you want to use within your T-SQL queries.
SQL Prompt's built-in snippets can be accessed from within an SSMS code window via
the appropriate string. For example, if you wish to create a new table in the database, type
ct in a code window. By default, SQL Prompt will display a list of suggestions, which will
include available snippets, along with a second code window, displaying the snippet that
will be inserted. This allows you to review the snippet before inserting it into your query.
If you type ct and then hit the Tab key, the CREATE TABLE snippet will automatically be
added to your code, as shown in Listing 7-10.
CREATE TABLE
(
- – column_name data_type,...
)
Listing 7-10: The ct (CREATE TABLE) snippet.
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