Do snippets support multiple variable expansion?

rgelb

When I read snippets, I assumed SSMS or VS style snippets, except with less PITA experience. Unless I am missing something, the snippets in SQLPrompt5 are a more limited replacement. Please tell me it ain't so.

I want to quickly be able to group by a given column in a given table and sort by the count DESC.

SELECT DomainLogin, COUNT(*)
FROM Proposal
GROUP BY DomainLogin
ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC

So in this case there would be 2 varibles: column name (DomainLogin in this case) and table name (Proposal in this case).

It seems like SQL Prompt 5 supports $CURSOR$ for variables, but only a single one. And it definitely doesn't seem to support tabbing between variables, a la Visual Studio.

Am I wrong?

Manfred.Castro

Here is some documentation on using SSMS templates in SQL Prompt snippets.
http://www.red-gate.com/supportcenter/content/SQL_Prompt/help/5.3/sp_ssms_templates

rgelb

Doesn't have the elegance of visual studio (or even SSMS) snippets, but I guess, it gets the job done.

David Atkinson

You can use the SSMS template parameters in conjunction with SQL Prompt snippets. Would this help?

see http://www.simple-talk.com/blogs/2012/0 ... arameters/

David

eggnog

*bump*

Multiple $CURSOR$ positions with tab-between would be awesome.

Microsoft templates are lame because there is no autocomplete.


Thanks.