Prefer tabs but your teammates use spaces? That's not a problem with the brand new formatting options in SQL Prompt. It's now possible to customize, save, and share multiple styles that you can then quickly switch between when working. Here's how it works, and how to get set up.
2017-06-06
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Louis Davidson shows how to save a defined SQL formatting style as a shareable template that you can quickly share with your coworkers.
2017-05-02
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The way that you format T-SQL code can affect the productivity of the people who have to subsequently maintain your work. It is never a good experience to see SQL Code, cry out “Who the devil wrote this code?”, and then realise that it was you. Grant gives some examples of bad formatting and explains why you should never check-in badly-formatted SQL code.
2016-11-29
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A quick tip for using a combination of block and line comments to test CTEs
2014-11-10
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We use a tally table to find the appropriate denominator for a given decimal part of a number.
2014-04-29 (first published: 2014-04-07)
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Another in the series of articles to help you "fill in the cracks" in your T-SQL knowledge. MVP Jeff Moden shows us a super simple, high performance method to solve this timeless problem.
2013-07-19 (first published: 2011-01-20)
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In the new VECTOR_DISTANCE() function in SQL Server 2025, the first parameter is the distance_metric. What is this?
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