Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Erland Sommarskog Newsgroups: comp.databases.ms-sqlserver Subject: Re: SSMS Query Designer chokes on ANSI Analytic Functions. Any Workaround? Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2011 10:30:03 +0200 Organization: Erland Sommarskog Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="DD6dU+BfJNjsjSP4/K/V7w"; logging-data="18352"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/Dh0GzS+PluM8BwqfFKvhK" User-Agent: Xnews/2006.08.24 Mime-proxy/2.1.c.0 (Win32) Cancel-Lock: sha1:J1t5fQcDBV0LXTwFOSOJoKCxtuY= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.databases.ms-sqlserver:492 bill (billmaclean1@gmail.com) writes: > Has anyone heard if the Designer will be improved in Denali? I doubt. One problem with a thing like the Designer is that there is only so much you can do with a graphical interface. How would you visualise a row number? A running sum (improvement to the OVER() clause added in Denali.) Of course it doesn't help if what you have is rotten from the bottom up. Personally, I think the best improvement that Microsoft could do is to pull it. Alas, it is still there. -- Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se Links for SQL Server Books Online: SQL 2008: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/cc514207.aspx SQL 2005: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/bb895970.aspx