Sunday, March 25, 2012

automatically expand identity specification node?

subject says it all -- is it possible to automatically expand the identity specification node in table properties for the Management Studio or VS2005 diagram mode? when creating a DB, it seems ridiculous that for EVERY table I have to add an extra click to get to just one more clickable item that ought to be exposed by default.Yeah, that's kind of a pain. If you have a lot of design to do at once, it's easier to use T-SQL than the GUI tools. I don't know of a method to auto-expand that.|||

thx for the reply ... even if it's a year later

sure, T-SQL would be easier for the identity aspect ... but when I'm modelling a DB, it's too organic of a process to do in script. One of SQL Server's strengths has always been the DB modeller. I don't need to create an ERD and work off of that because the SQL Server diagram IS my initial ERD. Implementing ideas visually at the conceptual stage of DB design is critical IMO. Making the identiy attribute more accessible, whether by default, by choice, or by rearranging that portion of the GUI, would be a big value add, again, IMO ...

|||Have you gone to the Microsoft site to make that suggestion? They have a place where they rank them.|||

Buck Woody - MSFT wrote:

Have you gone to the Microsoft site to make that suggestion? They have a place where they rank them.

Where at? Connections?

|||That's right - here is the link:

http://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer

|||thanks for the link, hadn't used Connect in a while.sql

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