Show tables ? + 2 Feature requests -- PROPERTIES

[Bart Pietercil]

Hi Ruslan,
On 19-sep-07, at 16:31, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:

> On 19/9/07 5:21 PM, "Bart Pietercil" <bart.pietercil at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Bart,
>
>>> See
>>>     SET/GET PROPERTIES
>>>     SHOW PROPERTIES
>>
>> I read the reference and while I can see this being very useful it is
>> not what I meant.
>> If I understand correctly the UDP's will only be visualised when an
>> appropriate query is run.
>
>> What I think is needed  for comments is a field in the system  
>> tables  (for all
>> object types) so it can be visualised in the interface of  VStudio  
>> as a
>> property for that object.
>
> Yes I also have think about THIS way,
> But Ivan stay on mechanism of properties even for COMMENT.
>
> Actually VStudio just can have buil-in interface to show this SYSTEM
> properties of objects. I.e. COMMENT. So for you/user this will be  
> the same
> as if they was in SYSTEM table.
>
>> I feel the need for this by practicly  everything I do now in VStudio
>> (probably because the solution is  becoming very complex) I want  
>> to be able to
>> put a comment next to a diagram, table, links,  fields, views,  
>> triggers,
>> stored procedures,....because when designing  the solution I know  
>> why I take a
>> decision but a few weeks later I  forget or somebody else is left  
>> wondering
>> why a certain object is the  way it is.
>
> This is clear.
>
> I think we can try implement this for 3.5
>
>> So conclusion would be that UDF's are different from comments
>
>
If Ivan says he can do it, who are we to doubt it :-)

Looking forward to 3.5 but also 3.4

Any date on that one ( I'll stop filing reports until we have 3.4;-))

Bart