Comments on: Object Explorer Details (How To customize) http://benchmarkitconsulting.com/colin-stasiuk/2009/03/02/object-explorer-details-how-to-customize/ Tue, 15 May 2012 15:10:28 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Ryan http://benchmarkitconsulting.com/colin-stasiuk/2009/03/02/object-explorer-details-how-to-customize/comment-page-1/#comment-4906 Ryan Tue, 25 May 2010 15:48:02 +0000 http://benchmarkitconsulting.com/?p=510#comment-4906 Golly.... I absolutely HATE 2008 with a passion because of the changes it's made to object explorer. On in particular is this "object explorer details" concept. I'm in an medium sized database with Several hundred procedures. However... in order to see those procedures it would seem so far that I have to open this "object explorer details page". So... now I've got 10+ query pages open. I want to go check out the details of a table and open an SP. In 2005 this was so simple. It was effortless. In 2008 I have to play with tabs or do all sorts of weird stuff. It's aggravating. The information is organized poorly and is very unhelpful. If they were going to make it configurable, they should have made it configurable to the point that it would mirror 2005. Far better organization there. But that's just my opinion. -5 stars out of 5 for 2008 in my book. I've had nothing but trouble with it. Installing, utilizing, and so forth. It's default settings aren't even intelligent or useful. You have to go and reconfigure the entire thing before you can utilize it with a medium or larger database. It's like it's default setup for small databases or something. I mean, sure, no matter what you'll likely have to reconfigure something. But some of the default settings blocked remote login to my database.... huh? Any respectable sized database is going to be remote... The state of those default setting is silly stupid in my opinion. Golly…. I absolutely HATE 2008 with a passion because of the changes it’s made to object explorer. On in particular is this “object explorer details” concept. I’m in an medium sized database with Several hundred procedures. However… in order to see those procedures it would seem so far that I have to open this “object explorer details page”. So… now I’ve got 10+ query pages open. I want to go check out the details of a table and open an SP. In 2005 this was so simple. It was effortless. In 2008 I have to play with tabs or do all sorts of weird stuff. It’s aggravating. The information is organized poorly and is very unhelpful. If they were going to make it configurable, they should have made it configurable to the point that it would mirror 2005. Far better organization there. But that’s just my opinion.

-5 stars out of 5 for 2008 in my book. I’ve had nothing but trouble with it. Installing, utilizing, and so forth. It’s default settings aren’t even intelligent or useful. You have to go and reconfigure the entire thing before you can utilize it with a medium or larger database. It’s like it’s default setup for small databases or something. I mean, sure, no matter what you’ll likely have to reconfigure something. But some of the default settings blocked remote login to my database…. huh? Any respectable sized database is going to be remote… The state of those default setting is silly stupid in my opinion.

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