Nice job Sushila.... I use EM to troubleshoot other people's more complex joins and, occasionally, to make my own. And, I "steal" code from it and QA quite a bit for the sake of speed as you suggested. You and Erik are correct... when I was a newbie and found out how to do those things, it was about as good as Christmas.
I've been busy enough where I haven't paid much attention to Yukon and was disappointed to hear (in your article) the EM is going away. Perhaps another article that compares some of the tools like EM between 2000 and Yukon would be worthwhile.
Thanks for the article and the forum answers you've posted. They help Newbies and Oldbies alike.
Nice article, but you forgot to mention one trick, or should I say chore Refresh, refresh, refresh and if you still can't find what you're looking for, refresh again
I use EM for two functions that I do quite often, creating databases and scripting store procedures.
I know that it is fairly simple to create a db in TSQL, I just got in the habit of doing it through EM.
Scripting store procedures, on the other hand, is another story. I don't know of anyway to script a store procedure from TSQL, scripting it to the point of being able to cut/paste into QA to modify the procedure. sp_helptext does not help because it puts carriage returns in inappropriate places.
Is there a way to script a store procedure in TSQL?
Mike, you can add columns to a table in Enterprise Manager without too much fuss at all. Just add them at the end. Then EM will just use the sp_addcolumn stored procedure.
Also, if you are editing the structure of a populated table, then it's actually better to do it in Enterprise Manger, grab the change script, and close the design view without saving the changes. The reason for this is that Enterprise Manager will do a better job of scripting all the constraints that apply to the table.
Richard, you can script most things from the Object Browser in Query Analyzer. Just right-clcick the object and choose "Script to New Window as ..."
Just make sure you visit the Options before you do any scripting. Checking the "Include Object Permissions" is one that always catches me
I tried the link above, and got page not found ?? Did some pirates whisk it away somewhere ?
(edit) Found it by looking around a bit ....
