After installing dbForge SQL Complete, you need to activate the product—even for the trial version. You can do this in your IDE (SSMS or Visual Studio) or via the command line.
Depending on your internet connection, you can activate SQL Complete in one of the following ways:
1. In SSMS or Visual Studio, select SQL Complete > Help > Activate Product.
Tip
If the SQL Complete menu isn’t visible on the menu bar, you can find it under Extensions. To add it to the menu bar, select Extensions > Customize Menu, clear the SQL Complete checkbox, then click Save and Restart.
2. Enter the activation key.
Tip
You can find the activation key in the email from Devart or on the Customer Portal.
Use the activation key (a long alphanumeric string), not the license ID (formatted as XXXX-XXXX-XXX).
3. Click Activate.
1. Try to activate the product online on the target machine.
When the activation fails, a connection error message appears in the Product Activation dialog.
2. In the error message, select manual activation.
3. Choose how to export the activation request:
4. On a machine with internet access, go to the Manual Product Activation page.
5. Paste the request text into the form, then click Download License.
The .lic license file is downloaded.
6. Transfer the .lic file to the target machine.
7. On the target machine, in the Product Activation dialog, click Load License.
8. Select the .lic file, then click Open to complete activation.
1. Open Command Prompt.
2. Navigate to the product installation folder.
The default path is C:\Program Files (x86)\Devart\dbForge SQL Complete
.
3. Run the following command, replacing <activation_key>
with your actual key.
sqlcomplete.com /activate /key:<activation_key>