Visible in SQL 2008

  • Hi...We just had restored a database into SQL Server 2008...In the database, under tables I can't see any tables listed out there...but in object explorer details I can see all the tables and I can query the tables as well..but why I m not able to see the tables?? is there any security setting for this??

    Thanks a lot...

  • Refresh maybe? Restart SSMS?

  • Thanks for the quick reply....

    do we have to Restart the SQL Server??? I just refreshed, disconnected and reconnected to the server...none of the developers or DBA can see the tables!!!! I never restarted the service...

  • View Any Definition permissions?



    A.J.
    DBA with an attitude

  • I didn't get that....

    But, Directly If I login to the server i couldn't see the tables....If I connect to that server from my local SSMS, I can see the tables...its weird...

  • Are you connecting both ways using the same login or NT login credentials?



    A.J.
    DBA with an attitude

  • I logged in as both sa login and Windows...I can't see them either...

    Thank you

  • That is certainly odd, and when you close SSMS and reopen it, it still fails? If so, I would be reinstalling the client tools myself. Is this true on all databases (msdb, master, etc) or just the one you restored?



    A.J.
    DBA with an attitude

  • I think you are either connecting to a different instance or database if you can see them from one place and not another with the same credentials.

    When you log in, no matter if you are running SSMS from the server or workstation, you are always connecting the same way,a remote connection, to the instance. If the credentials work in one place, they work in the other.

    Permissions are the same.

    I would slow down and double check the instance you are connecting to in each case.

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