View Designer in Management Studio

  • Does anyone know if it's possible to improve the formatting in the visual view designer in SSMS?

    I'd rather not see RIGHT OUTER JOINs and LEFT OUTER JOINs in the same query. Normally I write them with only LEFT OUTER JOINs.

    Plus, the formatting is abysmal. I'm using SQL Refactor to clean it up a bit, but my boss is constantly using the visual designer and saving the bad formatting along with his changes.

  • best is to revoke you bosses ddl-admin privileges :hehe:

    Many of our devs use that view-GUI because they find it easy, but then again,they don't get to clean up the mess they create.

    If it doesn't give the result they want, it's sqlserver's fault !

    So they come complaining and weeping at the DBA desk.

    Johan

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  • ALZDBA (2/13/2009)


    best is to revoke you bosses ddl-admin privileges :hehe:

    Yeah.. that would go over like a lead zeppelin!

  • I don't think the view designer shows up in the connection info of the spid.

    So I guess you cannot restrict its usage.

    Johan

    Learn to play, play to learn !

    Dont drive faster than your guardian angel can fly ...
    but keeping both feet on the ground wont get you anywhere :w00t:

    - How to post Performance Problems
    - How to post data/code to get the best help[/url]

    - How to prevent a sore throat after hours of presenting ppt

    press F1 for solution, press shift+F1 for urgent solution 😀

    Need a bit of Powershell? How about this

    Who am I ? Sometimes this is me but most of the time this is me

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