You can’t. (Edit: other good answers have been posted with some workable methods.) My preferred method to do this is via a direct SQL update. Two general techniques: –Literal returns inside strings UPDATE mytable SET textvalue=”This text can include line breaks” WHERE rowid = 1234 –Concatenating CHAR codes UPDATE mytable SET textvalue=”This text” + CHAR(10) … Read more
On SQL Server Management Studio In the Database Diagram, right click and select ‘View Page Breaks’ Then from main window menu select, File > Page Setup Select Page Size and Orientation – A3 and Landscape are most likely best options. And Print Scale – this is the % value that should hopefully enable you to … Read more
In case you still need to know how to do this. Edit the Registry Key in HKEY_CURRENT_USER: Software\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\xx\Tools\Shell\Text Editor\Visible Whitespace Where xx is the version you have (90 is 2005, 100 is 2008) And set it to 1 to show. Or for SQL Server 2012 and up client tools it is also in … Read more
Within the diagram, do a Copy Diagram to Clipboard from the edit menu, and then paste into a new Microsoft Word document. From there, you can scale the drawing as you wish. If you have a printer capable of printing to 11 x 17 paper, this works well. I have been able to print schemas … Read more
EDMX is Visual Studio’s “container” for all things about your Entity Data Model. It contains all the information that is in the CSDL, SSDL, MSL, plus information about the visual layout of the tables in your Visual Studio designer surface. The EDMX file is converted into CSDL, SSDL, MSL (typically embedded as resources in your … Read more
That is because there are open transactions. If those transactions can be killed, then this can easily be done with this SQL ALTER DATABASE ip_ent_site SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE GO sp_rename ‘ip_ent_site’, ‘new_db_name’ ,’DATABASE’; GO ALTER DATABASE new_db_name SET MULTI_USER GO
No, you can’t do this. When we first got Management Studio I’ve tried every possible combination of everything you could think of: _, %, *, “, ‘, &&, &, and, or, |, ||, etc…
Click the expand symbol next to the table. Right click on the “Keys” folder and select “New Foreign Key.” (Alternatively, you can click the Relationships button on the toolstrip when you have the table open) Click the “…” button on the “Tables and Columns Specifications” row to open the editor. The drop down on the … Read more
In SSMS, go to Tools > Options > Text Editor > Editor Tab and Status Bar. You can manage some options of tab text, as shown in the picture below. (for example don’t include db name, file name, login name and/or server name).
Open SQL Management Studio Express and log in to the server to which you want to attach the database. In the ‘Object Explorer’ window, right-click on the ‘Databases’ folder and select ‘Attach…’ The ‘Attach Databases’ window will open; inside that window click ‘Add…’ and then navigate to your .MDF file and click ‘OK’. Click ‘OK’ … Read more