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Introduction

Introduction

Install and first launch

Install and first launch: Installing
Install and first launch: Updates
Install and first launch: First launch
Install and first launch: The tour and the setup wizard
Install and first launch: If you already use SQL Multi Script

Core concepts

The shape of it
Workspace
Connection
Target, and target group
Project and script
Environment and variable
The two questions are independent
What a run is
Where everything is stored
Two people sharing a workspace

A first run, end to end

A first run, end to end

The window

The window

Workspaces

Workspaces: Creating one
Workspaces: Opening and adding
Workspaces: When a workspace has moved
Workspaces: Sharing through git
Workspaces: Per-machine overrides
Workspaces: Edits from outside

Connections

Connections: Registering a server
Connections: Authentication
Connections: Marking a connection production
Connections: Renaming and removing

Target groups

Target groups: Building a group
Target groups: Groups with several databases on one server
Target groups: Deleting a group
Target groups: Long groups

Projects and scripts

Projects and scripts
Projects and scripts: Creating and opening a project
Projects and scripts: The Project pane
Projects and scripts: The Scripts pane
Projects and scripts: Saving
Projects and scripts: Deleting a project
Projects and scripts: Scripts that have gone missing

The editor

The editor: Tabs
The editor: The status readout
The editor: Formatting
The editor: Error markers

IntelliSense

IntelliSense: Choosing the reference database
IntelliSense: The popup
IntelliSense: Refreshing
IntelliSense: The schema cache
IntelliSense: Drift annotations

Variables and environments

Variables and environments: The four types
Variables and environments: Overriding a type at one site
Variables and environments: The variable editor
Variables and environments: Built-in variables
Variables and environments: Seeing what resolved
Variables and environments: Failures

Running scripts

Running scripts: Preview first
Running scripts: What happens when you press F5
Running scripts: On-error policy
Running scripts: Batches
Running scripts: Parallelism and timeouts
Running scripts: Canceling
Running scripts: Re-running what failed
Running scripts: Transactions

Results

Results: The grouped list
Results: The detail pane
Results: All Servers
Results: Truncation warnings
Results: Export

Run history

Run history

Schema coverage scan

Schema coverage scan: Running it
Schema coverage scan: Reading the findings
Schema coverage scan: What a scan does and does not prove
Schema coverage scan: Fixing what it finds

Settings

Settings: Application
Settings: Project
Settings: Run history
Settings: IntelliSense
Settings: Shortcuts
Settings: What lives where

Importing from Red Gate SQL Multi Script

Importing from Red Gate SQL Multi Script: What comes across
Importing from Red Gate SQL Multi Script: Running the import
Importing from Red Gate SQL Multi Script: What is not imported

Keyboard and the command palette

Keyboard and the command palette
Keyboard and the command palette: Commands with no shortcut, deliberately

Beyond the desktop app

Beyond the desktop app

Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting

Glossary

Glossary

Appendices

File formats
Error codes
Known limitations

Command line (sqlmc)

What sqlmc is
What sqlmc is: Getting it
What ships today
Finding a workspace
Finding a workspace: Why the directory walk matters
Output and exit codes: Two shapes, one decision
Output and exit codes: Where output goes
Output and exit codes: Exit codes
sqlmc list coverage: Synopsis
sqlmc list coverage: What it does
sqlmc list coverage: Options
sqlmc list coverage: Production consent
sqlmc list coverage: Reading the report
sqlmc list coverage: Failure and cancellation
sqlmc list coverage: The JSON payload
sqlmc list coverage: Recipes
Credentials
Use from CI
Planned verbs
Error codes
Environment variables

MCP server

What this is
Running the server
Running the server: Wiring it into a client
Running the server: What the server runs as
Finding a workspace
The tools
sqlmc_script_complete: What it answers
sqlmc_script_complete: Parameters
sqlmc_script_complete: It degrades rather than refusing
sqlmc_script_complete: Result
sqlmc_script_complete: Item kinds
sqlmc_script_complete: Drift notes on items
sqlmc_script_complete: Worked exchange
sqlmc_list_coverage: What it answers
sqlmc_list_coverage: It asks before it connects
sqlmc_list_coverage: Parameters
sqlmc_list_coverage: Result
sqlmc_list_coverage: What a finding may and may not claim
sqlmc_list_coverage: Progress and long calls
sqlmc_list_coverage: Worked exchange
sqlmc_list_coverage: Using the two tools together
Security and what the agent can reach
Planned

Licensing

Which tier am I?
What the tiers actually differ on
How does the Pro trial work?
What happens if I cancel?
Do I have to sign in?
What if I cannot sign in — expired license, no network, corporate proxy?
Air-gapped machines and CI agents
Seats
Can I evaluate it before buying?
What do you collect?
Several accounts on one machine

Documentation / Settings

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Settings: Shortcuts

Buttons to open the workspace folder and the log folder in Explorer.

Last updated 2026-10-21

Buttons to open the workspace folder and the log folder in Explorer.

The Application page of Settings, where the folder button beside Workspace Location opens the workspace folder in Explorer.

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