These pages cover SQL Search 2, which is not the latest version. Help for other versions is also available.
SQL Search 2.0 release notes
Published 07 April 2014
SQL Search 2.0.1.28 - April 28th, 2014
We're pleased to announce that SQL Search 2.0 has been released. SQL Search 2 comes with new functionality including searching in jobs, searching in multiple databases and object types, searching with booleans and wildcards, and a higher search result limit.
Download SQL Search 2.0 here.
New features and improvements
- Search in jobs.
- Select multiple object types and databases to search in.
- Improved reliability of search results.
- Improved indexing.
- Reindexing is now a single option, with a keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+D (bug SDI-201).
- Search results limit is raised to 500 results per database, with the option to see all results for a particular search.
- Banner ads removed.
- Cleaner design.
- Search with % wildcard.
- Search with Boolean operators.
Can search with AND or OR, with a single NOT clause at the end of a search. - A text preview of matches on column names is available.
- SSMS 2014 support
Fixes
- SDI-91, SDI-92, SDI-115 - Delay on typing and search result limit allows initial quick searches on large databases.
- SDI-97 - Dragging the columns across the empty results pane no longer distorts the help text.
- SDI-147 - SQL Search toolbar now remembers position.
- SDI-155 - Results are shown for partially typed names.
- SDI-174 - Objects are found by their current names.
- SDI-149, SDI-183, SDI-188, SDI-196, SDI-552, SDI-559 - Can search for literal ", $, _, *, = characters, and preview will highlight and scroll.
- SDI-199 - Search result limit is now clear in the UI.
- SDI-200 - SSMS 2005's default databases for a connection is now recognized.
- SDI-410 - No longer repeatedly reindexes during searching.
- SDI-430 - No longer crashes SSMS when an XML document is open.
- SDI-442 - Can now find procedures after reconnecting.
- SDI-459 - Can now find objects if the search term is split across two rows in syscomments table.
- SDI-461, SDI-467, SDI-473 - Autobugs fixed by migration to the SIP Framework.
- SDI-522 - User profiles folders with accents in the name can be found.
- SDI-535 - Can now copy search results when an unsaved document is open.
See the troubleshooting page Unsaved documents cannot be cut or copied to the clipboard from the Miscellaneous Files project. - SDI-553 - Objects filter is more reliable.
- SDI-544, SDI-557 - Reindexing is more reliable.
- SDI-609 - Changing the search term during a long search no longer returns incorrect results.
Known issues
- SDI-570 - When exact match is on, partial matches are still highlighted in the preview window.
- SDI-611 - Using the Ctrl+Alt+D shortcut causes selected database to change to the database context of the last open query.
- SDI-615 - Matches on Unicode substrings in object body text are not highlighted.
SQL Search 2.0.1.30 - May 20th, 2014
Fixes
- Avoid clashes with other tools depending on the SSMS Integration Pack
SQL Search 2.0.1.36 - December 4th, 2014
Fixes
- Fixes bug where sometimes SQL Search didn't scroll to the result's position
SQL Search 2.0.1.53 - February 24th, 2015
Fixes
- SDI-583 - Crash when SQL Search has been disconnected from the SQL Server