VS 2008 Query Designer Help Please

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Matt - 22 Aug 2008 17:36 GMT

Actually, what I want is less help please.

If I enter SQL into the SQL Pane of the Query Designer and execute, the
designer helpfully reformats my text for me.

I would really prefer to keep my original formatting. Really and truly.

Does anyone know of a way to turn this feature off?

Thanks for any suggestions,

Matt

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Ginny Caughey MVP - 22 Aug 2008 22:01 GMT

Matt,

I don't know of a way to turn it off, but you could use SQL Server 2008
Management Studio instead.

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Matt - 22 Aug 2008 23:16 GMT

> Matt,
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> I don't know of a way to turn it off, but you could use SQL Server 2008
> Management Studio instead.

This may be where I end up going. Let me ask a dumb question. I see it is
now RTM. What does "Release to Manufacturing" mean? I don't want to
install anything that is a disguised beta.

Thanks,
Matt

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Ginny Caughey MVP - 23 Aug 2008 12:09 GMT

Matt,

Not a dumb question at all. RTM means the final production non-beta version.
Note that you must upgrade VS 2008 to sp1 if you haven't already in order to
install SQL 2008.

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Matt - 25 Aug 2008 15:43 GMT

> Matt,
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> Not a dumb question at all. RTM means the final production non-beta
> version. Note that you must upgrade VS 2008 to sp1 if you haven't
> already in order to install SQL 2008.

Thanks Ginny. Looks like I take a ride on the upgrade train.

Matt

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Simon Hart [MVP] - 24 Aug 2008 18:59 GMT

The query designer is meant to suck big time :) It is designed to help
newbies new to SQL which it kind of does fairly well. The solution is don't
use Visual Studio for writing queries!
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Visual Developer - Device Application Development MVP
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Laxmi Narsimha Rao Oruganti [MSFT] - 25 Aug 2008 11:22 GMT

Query Designer is not Query Editor (vice versa is also true). What you
really want is the Query Editor, so use that which is provided in SQL Server
Management Studio. Now, I am sure why not have a single IDE for all. I am
not sure if I can give any sugar coated answer to it!, that is how two
different IDEs evolved. There was some effort to bring Query Editor to VS
and it happened in VS 2008 but for big SQL Sever. However, for SQL Server
Compact they are still in different IDEs for now.

Thanks,
Laxmi

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