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Vote to Improve Sql Management Studio

April 29, 2008 12:49 by Luke

I rarely write feedback to product teams but today I decided that I have had enough of this Identity Specification nonsense. How often do you create tables in Sql Management Studio which have some sort of identity column which is a primary key and an auto incrementing integer. Unless I am way off base, this is probably the most common scenario when creating a new table. So why does it take so many clicks? I have to click the Primary Key button to make the column a primary key and then scroll down in the Column Properties pane and find "Identity Specification" and expand it to change the value of "Is Identity" to "Yes".  That is just way too many clicks and scrolls for me.

So I have submitted a suggestion on Microsoft connect:

https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=340996

Vote for it if you agree. If you don’t agree, let me know why.


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April 29. 2008 14:06

jb

That drives me crazy. As a hokey workaround, I create my tables in the Database Diagrams | Custom Details view. Hokey, but it works.

jb

April 29. 2008 14:13

brad

I think this would be a good use of a task pane like they do in the vista/2k8 stuff that has something like "make this column auto inc int" or something.

brad

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