Creating Snippets

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Creating Snippets

Luis Cazares

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September 1, 2015 at 8:11 am

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I'm not sure if this is still useful and works the same for 2014 and 2016. I've created a few for myself on 2012 and seem like a useful tool. I couldn't find any article about this and only found this forum post http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1465260-2799-1.aspx
Would it be a good article or would it be irrelevant for the majority?
Luis C.
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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173099 More actions · Answer 1

I'm not quite sure what you mean by this, Luis. When I think of snippets, I'm thinking of code I reuse over and over, but generally I just save the code to my Management Studio solution and the open it / alter as needed.

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 737496 More actions · Answer 2

I use snippets in Prompt.

They've been in SSMS as Templates for a long time. You can drag/drop them into query windows. CTRL+Shift+M for parameters

Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 3

I've seen that Prompt handles snippets in a wonderful way. I know that templates have been available for a long time, but I'm not sure if you could create custom templates and not only the "create new object" that came included.

Of course, a code used over and over could be saved as a script, but when the code is usually part of something bigger, then a snippet could be a better option. For example, I made the following for a cteTally which can be inserted by Ctrl+K, Ctrl+X and a few other keystrokes.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<CodeSnippets xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet">

<_locDefinition xmlns="urn:locstudio">

<_locDefault _loc="locNone" />

<_locTag _loc="locData">Title</_locTag>

<_locTag _loc="locData">Description</_locTag>

<_locTag _loc="locData">Author</_locTag>

<_locTag _loc="locData">ToolTip</_locTag>

<_locTag _loc="locData">Default</_locTag>

</_locDefinition>

<CodeSnippet Format="1.0.0">

<Header>

<Title>Tally CTE</Title>

<Shortcut></Shortcut>

<Description>Creates a cteTally</Description>

<Author>Luis Cazares</Author>

<SnippetTypes>

<SnippetType>Expansion</SnippetType>

</SnippetTypes>

</Header>

<Snippet>

<Declarations>

<Literal>

<ID>cteTally</ID>

<ToolTip>Code to create a cteTally</ToolTip>

<Default>cteTally</Default>

</Literal>

</Declarations>

<Code Language="SQL"><![CDATA[WITH

E(n) AS(

SELECT n FROM (VALUES(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0))E(n)

),

E2(n) AS(

SELECT a.n FROM E a, E b

),

E4(n) AS(

SELECT a.n FROM E2 a, E2 b

),

cteTally(n) AS(

SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY (SELECT NULL)) n

FROM E4

)

SELECT n

FROM cteTally

]]>

</Code>

</Snippet>

</CodeSnippet>

</CodeSnippets>

Or the following that would help me to create a concatenated string from a query. This one is called by Ctrl+K, Ctrl+S as this surround the selected text.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<CodeSnippets xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet">

<_locDefinition xmlns="urn:locstudio">

<_locDefault _loc="locNone" />

<_locTag _loc="locData">Title</_locTag>

<_locTag _loc="locData">Description</_locTag>

<_locTag _loc="locData">Author</_locTag>

<_locTag _loc="locData">ToolTip</_locTag>

<_locTag _loc="locData">Default</_locTag>

</_locDefinition>

<CodeSnippet Format="1.0.0">

<Header>

<Title>FOR XML PATH</Title>

<Shortcut></Shortcut>

<Description>Creates a Concatenated list</Description>

<Author>Luis Cazares</Author>

<SnippetTypes>

<SnippetType>SurroundsWith</SnippetType>

</SnippetTypes>

</Header>

<Snippet>

<Declarations>

<Literal>

<ID>FORXMLPATH</ID>

<ToolTip>Code to create a Concatenated list</ToolTip>

<Default>Concatenated list</Default>

</Literal>

</Declarations>

<Code Language="SQL"><![CDATA[SELECT STUFF(( $end$$selected$

FOR XML PATH(''), TYPE).value('.', 'varchar(max)'), 1, 1, '')

]]>

</Code>

</Snippet>

</CodeSnippet>

</CodeSnippets>

Luis C.
General Disclaimer:
Are you seriously taking the advice and code from someone from the internet without testing it? Do you at least understand it? Or can it easily kill your server?

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 737496 More actions · Answer 4

Steve Jones - SSC Editor

SSC Guru

Points: 737496

February 9, 2016 at 6:03 pm

#1857565

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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 5

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/9/2016)
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Does this means that an article on this could be interesting?

Luis C.
General Disclaimer:
Are you seriously taking the advice and code from someone from the internet without testing it? Do you at least understand it? Or can it easily kill your server?

How to post data/code on a forum to get the best help: Option 1 / Option 2

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 737496 More actions · Answer 6

Luis Cazares (2/10/2016)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/9/2016)
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Does this means that an article on this could be interesting?

yes

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