Assisted Editor for stored procedures

I have been using SQL server management studio beta to manage my SQL server 2000 and to develop stored procedures. I was very happy with Assisted Editor, but it seems to be missing from final SQL server 2005 products (developer's version) .

In object browser when I right-click on stored procedure and chose modify I used to get Assisted editor (described in http://msdn.microsoft.com/sql/learn/prog/tsql/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnsql90/html/tsqlqueries.asp). Now I get full Alter procedure statement (like in old Query analyzer) that can be edited and executed but not "real time" edited.

Is there any setting to get my beloved Assisted Editor back or Microsoft decided to get us rid of this user friendly addition?

Thanks and regards, Danko Jevtovic

The assisted editors functionality was cut from SQL Server 2005.

We had a lot of work left to make the feature correctly handle all the scenarios it needed to handle, and we ran out of time to fix it.

Assisted Editor

I have a book that refers to the "SQL Server Assisted Editor" in management
Studio. but when I right click on the Stored Procedure node or anything
else I can't get the Assisted Editor. Where is it?
Regards,
Gary Blakely
GaryDean (GaryDean@.newsgroups.nospam) writes:
> I have a book that refers to the "SQL Server Assisted Editor" in
> management Studio. but when I right click on the Stored Procedure node
> or anything else I can't get the Assisted Editor. Where is it?
It was in the betas of Mgmt Studio, but it was dropped along the way. In
my opinion, it was just as well, since it did really add that much. One
shortcoming as I recall was that you could only add a new parameter at
the end of the parameter lsit.
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@.sommarskog.se
Books Online for SQL Server 2005 at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/books.mspx
Books Online for SQL Server 2000 at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/previousversions/books.mspx
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"GaryDean" <GaryDean@.newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
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>I have a book that refers to the "SQL Server Assisted Editor" in management
>Studio. but when I right click on the Stored Procedure node or anything
>else I can't get the Assisted Editor. Where is it?
> --
> Regards,
> Gary Blakely
>
|||Hi Gary,
Please notice that I'v replied to the same issue in
microsoft.public.sqlserver.server newsgroup. Thank you.
Best Regards,
Peter Yang
MCSE2000/2003, MCSA, MCDBA
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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Assembly name for SSIS built-in UITypeEditors?

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