The ROI of SQL Prompt
Find your personal ROI in under 1 minute. And see how many working days you and your team could save in coding time with SQL Prompt!
2024-12-20
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Why customers love SQL Prompt
SQL Prompt has long been a customer favorite thanks to its ability to boost productivity. Discover how fellow database professionals are leveraging SQL Prompt to accelerate their coding speed and improve code quality.
2024-10-04
Prompt+ EAP: your AI-powered database development partner in the making
Last year, we introduced AI capabilities to SQL Prompt via the Prompt+ Early Access Program (EAP). Using generative AI-powered insights and context-based awareness, Prompt+ takes natural language queries and turns them into SQL coding suggestions. Check out this blog to learn more about Prompt+ and how to join the EAP waitlist.
2024-07-15
Tracking use of Deprecated SQL Server Features
Phil Factor explains how to use SQL Prompt, or SQL Change Automation, to detect use of deprecated SQL Server syntax, during development, and Dynamic Management Views and Extended Events to track its use on working databases.
2020-07-31
SQL Prompt Snippets to Drop Columns and Tables and Handle Associated Dependencies
Louis Davidson provides a pair of SQL Prompt snippets that will help you deal with dependencies, whenever you need to drop columns or tables.
2020-07-13
Why you Should Always Specify Whether a Column Accepts Nulls
Phil Factor explains the factors that determine whether a column will allow null values, if you don't specify it explicitly in the column definition. If you rely on the default behavior established by your connection settings, you could be in for some nasty surprises.
2020-03-09
Using SQL Prompt Code Snippets for Repetitive Tasks
Louis Davidson discovers the joy of using SQL Prompt code snippets to remove repetition from a variety of tasks, from inserting comment headers, to creating tables, to executing useful metadata queries.
2020-03-04
Why you Should Always Specify Whether a Column Accepts Nulls
Phil Factor explains the factors that determine whether a column will allow null values, if you don't specify it explicitly in the column definition. If you rely on the default behavior established by your connection settings, you could be in for some nasty surprises.
2020-02-21
Using SQL Prompt Code Snippets for Repetitive Tasks
Louis Davidson discovers the joy of using SQL Prompt code snippets to remove repetition from a variety of tasks, from inserting comment headers, to creating tables, to executing useful metadata queries.
2020-02-20
The Dangers of using Float or Real Datatypes
Floating point datatypes accommodate very big numbers but sacrifice precision. They are handy for some types of scientific calculations, but are dangerous when used more widely, because they can introduce big rounding errors.
2020-02-11
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I have this data in a SQL Server 2022 table:
PlayerIDPlayerNamePlayerStatus 1The \%ChampActive 2The ChampActive 3The_ChampionActive 4The__ChampionActive 5The\_ChampActiveHow many rows are returned by this code in SQL Server 2022?
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