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SQL Prompt Safety Net Features for SSMS: Tab Coloring

The Tab Coloring component of SQL Prompt’s SSMS Tab management could save you from accidentally doing something apocalyptic on a production server, ever again. Read more

SQL Prompt Safety Net Features for SSMS: SQL History

Mistakes occasionally happen. Sometimes you accidentally close an SSMS query tab without saving it, before realizing it contained an essential bit of code. Occasionally, you make some ill-judged 'refinements' to working code and now just wish you could rewind your tab back in time an hour and forget the whole sorry episode. Now and again, SSMS just conspires against you and crashes unexpectedly, and you lose all your currently open query tabs, some of which you hadn't saved. SQL History offers a useful safety net in the event of any of these unfortunate events. Read more

Quick SQL Prompt tip – restore your tabs, even if you closed them by mistake

It’s sometimes too easy to close SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) without saving your work. It’s also easy to get rid of tabs and scripts that you later wish you had back. SQL Prompt can help with both these problems. Take a look at the Options for SQL Prompt and you’ll find a set of Read more