Monday, May 08, 2006 12:30 PM
As normal service has resumed and I’m blogging again (admittedly I’m not going to blog about absolutely everything) here is a wonderful little utility I found on my travels for adding Intellisense to editor in SQL Server. It’s called promptSQL from Red Gate. I really love how Intellisense makes me more productive (i.e. lazy) in Visual Studio and I was wondering about its rather obvious admission from SQL Server 2005 Management Studio, missing a trick strings to mind. Anyway for $95 you can have it in all its glory. Yep, $95 which seems a bit steep, it drops to $50 per head when you buy 10.
Another little gripe is that options in the drop down window are selected via the return key; the space-bar just generates a space. I’m very used to using the space-bar so it’s going to be weird going from one Intellisense to another.
The software can be eval’ed for 14 days and is still in beta but it hasn’t blown up on me yet.