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SQL Prompt is an add-in for SQL Server Management Studio and Visual Studio that improves productivity for developers and DBAs by automating repetitive coding tasks. It provides features like IntelliSense-style code completion, customizable code snippets, and code formatting. Studies found it can increase coding speed by 30-50% compared to manual coding or native IntelliSense. For businesses, this translates to significant cost savings on development projects.

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SQL Roi Guide

SQL Prompt is an add-in for SQL Server Management Studio and Visual Studio that improves productivity for developers and DBAs by automating repetitive coding tasks. It provides features like IntelliSense-style code completion, customizable code snippets, and code formatting. Studies found it can increase coding speed by 30-50% compared to manual coding or native IntelliSense. For businesses, this translates to significant cost savings on development projects.

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SQL PROMPT - Part of the SQL Toolbelt

How SQL Prompt helps


individuals, teams,
& benefits business
SQL PROMPT Part of the SQL Toolbelt

"It saves huge amounts of time, boosts


productivity, enforces common layout
and coding standards, and means I can
focus fully on the task in hand."
Jerry Pett, Director
Burnt Orange Designs

SQL Prompt is an add-in for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)


and Visual Studio that strips away the repetition of coding.
SQL Prompt can make your developers twice as fast at working with SQL, and
leaves them free to concentrate on how the code actually works. It helps your
team work with each other’s code and write consistent queries.

Here are just five ways SQL Prompt makes coding in SQL effortless:

IntelliSense-style code completion - speeds up coding and make it easy to avoid errors

Customizable code formatting - format SQL scripts your way in a single click

Code snippet library - share code snippets across your whole team

SQL code refactoring - safely rename objects without breaking dependencies

SSMS tab history - reopen your queries from last time in SSMS and pick up where you left off

This paper will show you how SQL Prompt helps your development and DBA
teams, and how that translates into ROI for your business.

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SQL PROMPT Part of the SQL Toolbelt

Benefits for developers and DBAs


Cut the repetition out of SQL coding
With SQL code completion, customizable code snippets, object tool tips, and
synonym support, SQL Prompt strips the repetition from coding and saves hours
of effort.

Autocomplete does the work for you


As well as making the most common queries, such as SELECTs and INSERTs,
quick to write, SQL Prompt completes JOIN conditions for you automatically. You
don't have to remember any column names or aliases.

Save and recover lost tabs in SSMS


With tab history, you can save, preview, and rename tabs – and restore tabs
previously opened in SSMS. Letting you pick up work where you left off and start
coding again in seconds.

Safely refactor SQL code


Rename objects without breaking dependencies and encapsulate SQL code as a
stored procedure.

Expand wildcards straight from the query window


Whenever you see SELECT * FROM, just hit TAB to expand the wildcard into a
fully-formatted list of column names.

I normally spend about 50% of my day in SQL Server


Management Studio. Since I started using SQL Prompt,
I am at least 30% more productive. Even my clients are
starting to notice. I honestly cannot comprehend how
I managed to write Transact-SQL prior to this tool.
John Ek
ekDEVELOPMENT

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SQL PROMPT Part of the SQL Toolbelt

Benefits for your team


Share code snippets across your team
Type even less by adding your own code snippets to the customizable library
and sharing them with your team. That way, everyone can enjoy even faster, even
easier coding.

Keep your databases tidy by clearing invalid objects


Help your team keep their databases tidy and reliable with a complete list of any
invalid objects, and unused variables and parameters. To fix them, you can script
objects as ALTER directly from queries.

One-click SQL code formatting for consistent queries


Make code readable and keep developers working to the same standards, with
SQL Prompt's single-click, customizable code reformatting.

Lower the learning curve for new team members


Give new team members SQL Prompt, and they’ll be able to dash out SQL queries
using your team’s shared library of code snippets. And they can format them in
your team’s style in one click.

Free your team to focus on the task at hand


Let SQL Prompt take care of remembering column names and writing out JOIN
conditions, and your team can spend their time thinking about the problems
they’re trying to solve.

I'm a busy person. I get a lot done in a day. One of


my secrets is using SQL Prompt. It reduces hours
of coding to minutes; minutes to seconds. I would
recommend it to anyone that writes SQL.
Jes Borland, Consultant
Brent Ozar PLF

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SQL PROMPT Part of the SQL Toolbelt

Benefits for your business


SQL Server MVPs Steve Jones and Grant Fritchey helped us measure exactly how
much faster SQL Prompt is than writing SQL by hand. They also measured SQL
Prompt against SQL Server Management Studio’s native IntelliSense.

Jones and Fritchey found SQL Prompt sped up their coding by as much as 50%:

Hand-coding (Fritchey): 3:29


SQL Prompt (Jones): 2:24
31.1% faster

Hand-coding (Jones): 2:56


SQL Prompt (Fritchey): 2:17
22.2% faster

IntelliSense (Fritchey): 4:03


SQL Prompt (Jones): 1:55
52.7% faster

IntelliSense (Jones): 2:46


SQL Prompt (Fritchey): 1:27
47.6% faster

Overall SQL Prompt is 30% faster than hand-coding, and 50% faster than native
IntelliSense.

This tool was extremely beneficial to us when someone new came on


board. It was easier to find the tables and fields without having to go
through the entire schema and keep db docs up to date for reference.
Steve Sylvanowicz
Tri Wire

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SQL PROMPT Part of the SQL Toolbelt

If you apply SQL Prompt’s time-saving to a sizeable project with a team of five
developers, it doesn’t take long for SQL Prompt to cover its cost many times over:

Coding method Coding speed Effort Hourly cost Total cost Investment Savings

5 developers,
Native 1,000 person-
Normal speed $40 per hour $40,000 $0 $0
IntelliSense hours of coding

5 developers,
5 licenses of $40,000 -
With SQL 500 person-
50% faster $40 per hour $20,000 SQL Prompt $20,000 - $1,476
Prompt hours of coding
= $1,476 = $18,524

Speed up your entire development team for less. Volume discounts of up to 30%

Download a 14-day free trial and see for yourself how much time you can save:

www.red-gate.com/sql-prompt

Still not convinced?


Watch how SQL Server MVPs Steve Jones and
Grant Fritchey fared at coding with – and without
– SQL Prompt:

www.red-gate.com/sql-prompt/challenge

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