Name: SQL Prompt
Rating: 4.6 (111 reviews)

Overview

Product Information on SQL Prompt

Updated 13th October 2025

What is SQL Prompt?

SQL Prompt is a software developed by Redgate that offers code completion, formatting, and refactoring features for SQL Server Management Studio and Visual Studio. The software provides instant code suggestions, customizable formatting styles, and code analysis to help improve productivity and maintain consistency in SQL code. It supports code navigation and error highlighting to reduce the risk of syntax errors and enforce coding standards. SQL Prompt also includes object references and code snippets to assist in writing T-SQL queries efficiently. The software aims to address common challenges in SQL development by streamlining and automating routine coding tasks for database professionals.

Overall experience with SQL Prompt

IT Associate

50M - 250M USD, Banking

FAVORABLE

“SQL Prompt Improves Code Writing Speed With Useful Completion and Hint Features”

5.0

Jan 21, 2026

SQL Prompt has made writing SQL significantly faster and easier for developers

Software Developer

<50M USD, Software

CRITICAL

“SQL Prompt Useful for Query Suggestions Yet Hampered by Slowness and Bugs”

3.0

Jul 16, 2025

I have had an ok experience with SQL Prompt. On one hand, it has helped me be more efficient when querying a database. On the other, it is extremely buggy and can cause my computer to be frozen causing me to have to quit the entire program.

About Company

Company Description

Redgate offers end-to-end Database DevOps to help organizations streamline software development and get value from their data faster. Our solutions enable IT leaders, development, and operations teams to increase efficiency, reduce errors, and safeguard business-critical data. Redgate’s portfolio of solutions helps organizations reliably solve the complex challenges of database management across the DevOps lifecycle on any database, anywhere. Our enterprise-grade suite delivers solutions for testing, deployment, automation, and monitoring, fostering reliability and security for rapid software delivery. With 25 years’ experience, Redgate understands the complexity that today's database architects, administrators and developers face and works closely with our customers to help them solve their large-scale data problems and deliver innovation faster. More than 200,000 people globally trust Redgate to deliver ingeniously simple software.

Company Details

Company type

Private

Year Founded

1999

Head office location

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Number of employees

500 - 999

Website

https://red-gate.com

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SQL Prompt Likes & Dislikes

SQL Code completion and hints

For the most part, SQL Prompt has been helpful in suggesting tables and columns when writing SQL queries. It has greatly reduced the amount of time I have to manually go to the tables to find the name of something.

The type-ahead prediction function The snippets tool SQL History

No specific dislikes

It's buggy a lot of the time. It often doesn't suggest prompts when it should and indexing takes forever to finish. Additionally, overall it is slow and can slow down your machine.

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Recommended Gartner Insights

50M-1B USD

Banking

Review Source

SQL Prompt Improves Code Writing Speed With Useful Completion and Hint Features

IT SERVICES ASSOCIATE

10B+ USD

Built-In Features Reduce Workload and Improve Efficiency for Technical Tasks

Oct 16, 2025

The tools and UI built into the product make my job so much easier

Healthcare and Biotech

Required tool for TSQL Developers.

Aug 19, 2025

Awesome tool, I've used it with every TSQL job I've had. It saves me a lot of time.

SENIOR PROGRAMMER ANALYST

Gov't/PS/Ed

Education

If you use SQL Server Management Studio regularly, you need SQL Prompt

4.0

Aug 12, 2025

Overall, I am very pleased with SQL Prompt from Redgate. There are occasional bugs in the software but, for the most part, Redgate addresses major issues pretty quickly. Their support is very good and the user community actively participates.

DATA ANALYST

SQL Prompt Is the Singular Best Productivity Boost In My 25+ Year Career

SQL Prompt has given the largest largest productivity lift out of any other product in my entire career. The auto-complete features and the tab history in SQL Server Management Studio are second to none. Additionally, the ability to create my own snippets and export them to my teammates (and them to me) has helped standardize many practices within the team. The downside is that it does crash occasionally, especially if I do not stay close with the rapid updates between SSMS and SQL Prompt. Sometimes that is a bit much to handle with the never-ending "there is a new version" prompting. You can skip them, but only for so long until it becomes unstable. Having said that, the Redgate team is pretty good to deal with.