Migrate SQLPrompt Snippets to VSCode

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 I love snippets; love em. And I have a whole bunch in RedGate SQL Prompt. Now I want to be able to use those in VSCode as well, but boy do I dread having to retype all of them. Solution? Python! First arg is the path where your SQLPrompt snippets are Second arg is the directory where you want it to spit out a "sql.json" file with all your snippets. """ A script to translate sqlprompt snippet files to vscode formatted snippets """ import os import json import glob import io import argparse class SQLPromptPlaceholder :     """Represents the values of a SQLPrompt placeholder"""     def __init__ ( self , name , default_value ):         self . name = name         self . default_value = default_value class SQLPromptSnippet :     """Represents the content of a SQLPrompt snippet"""     @ staticmethod     def from_file ( filename ):         """Generates an instance fr
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Computed OBJECT_NAME column

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I was writing a script to pull a bunch of meta data to dynamically generate some other scripts, and I built a temp table to house various tables and different dynamic sql strings I was planning to use. For whatever reason, I opted to make the PK the object_id and build a computed column to output the name. When I did this, I got an odd result though. Assuming you have AdventureWorks2012 installed (it doesn't need to be that version, you just need some table objects), run the following code: 
use adventureworks2012
go

declare @tables table
(
    TableId int primary key clustered,
    TableName as object_name(TableID)
)

insert into @Tables (TableId)
select top 10 object_id
from sys.tables

select TableId, ComputedTableName = TableName, OnTheFlyTableName = object_name(TableId)
from @Tables
You should see something that looks like this: The problem is that when you declare the computed column on @tables, it assumes tempdb as the context for the object_name() function call. So even if you're currently using AdventureWorks2012, that object_name call is always made against tempdb. To fix the issue, you can add a second optional parameter to the object_name() function call with the database you want it to search against. 
declare @tables table
(
    TableId int primary key clustered,
    TableName as object_name(TableID, db_id('AdventureWorks2012'))
)

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