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Database Diagrams, Feedback and Usage

  • Artigo

Database Diagrams in SQL Server 2005 and VS 2005 were one of the more *ahem* controversial issues. If you remember at one point they were cut, then they came back, mostly as a result of the overwhelming feedback on them.

Well (Data Dudette) Mairead now owns them and is looking for feedback, here is the entry to respond to.

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  • Anonymous
    February 23, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    March 22, 2007
    A few comments to expand on David Harrison's feedback:
  1.  The application crashes surprisingly often when working on diagrams.   Frequent Save is essential.
  2.  Page setup is necessary every time I start an editing session.  It forgets that I am drawing on 11x17 sheets.
  3.  Printing a page that is not at 100% zoom gives unpredictable output.  Tables are rerendered and scroll bars reappear as rows disappear.
  4.  When you change zoom level, you need to slide the window around so that tables pass out of view and get rerendered.
  5.  Printed tables look like there is a missing font.  The left column boxes are partly shaded, and there is a strange multi-shaded band below the last row in the table.
  6.  I have had to stretch the layout of all of my SQL 2000 diagrams because rows in tables are now depicted with more height. This is a very weak visual layout tool.  Do the SQL Server folks know that Microsoft acquired Visio several years ago?