[dba-SQLServer] Viewing and Modifying stored procedures

Mark A Matte markamatte at hotmail.com
Wed Jun 27 10:04:41 CDT 2007


I use SQL Server Enterprise Manager to modify the SP...never did it through 
Query Analizer...

Sorry,

Mark


>From: "Jennifer Gross" <jengross at gte.net>
>Reply-To: dba-sqlserver at databaseadvisors.com
>To: <dba-sqlserver at databaseadvisors.com>
>Subject: Re: [dba-SQLServer] Viewing and Modifying stored procedures
>Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:13:44 -0700
>
>Hi Mark,
>
>That makes complete sense, but it doesn't work :(  I read somewhere that
>the Query Analyzer in previous versions of SQL Server is no longer a
>part of SQL Server 2005.  I am not sure, but have a feeling, that this
>missing Query Analyzer is the reason I can't do what I want to do.
>Apparently, unless you use T-SQL to edit stored procedures, the only
>other way they can be edited is through Visual Studio.  It can't be done
>directly in what is now called SQL Server Management Studio.  It appears
>I need to learn how to navigate Visual Studio 2005 as well as SQL Server
>2005.
>
>Here is an article I found about editing SQL Server 2005 stored
>procedures through Visual Studio -
>http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/051607-1.aspx
>
>Thanks for the help,
>
>Jennifer
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mark A
>Matte
>Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 1:32 PM
>To: dba-sqlserver at databaseadvisors.com
>Subject: Re: [dba-SQLServer] Viewing and Modifying stored procedures
>
>
>Jennifer,
>
>I currently use an older version of SQL Server...7 actually...and all I
>have
>to do is double click a stored procedure and it opens in a window for me
>to
>edit it...
>
>Probably not useful...just thought I'd share.
>
>Mark A. Matte
>
>
> >From: "Jennifer Gross" <jengross at gte.net>
> >Reply-To: dba-sqlserver at databaseadvisors.com
> >To: <dba-sqlserver at databaseadvisors.com>
> >Subject: Re: [dba-SQLServer] Viewing and Modifying stored procedures
> >Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:44:48 -0700
> >
> >Thanks Robert.  It is sinking in that this is the way it works in SQL
> >Server.  Even if I just want to see the stored procedure so that I can
> >understand what it does (since I inherited this database), I have to
> >generate this ALTER PROC template and then close the window without
> >saving.  Seems strange that I just can't take a look at the stored
> >procedure code, but I guess that's the way it is.
> >
> >Jennifer
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> >[mailto:dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Robert
> >Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 9:36 AM
> >To: dba-sqlserver at databaseadvisors.com
> >Subject: Re: [dba-SQLServer] Viewing and Modifying stored procedures
> >
> >
> >Jennifer,
> >
> >That is the "editing" window.
> >Not sure what you expected.
> >
> >If you were expecting a grid view,
> >then you are not going to get it.
> >Stored procs are not views, but
> >can be anything from a simple SQL
> >statement to hundreds of lines
> >of code to do complex things.
> >
> >If the stored proc is a simple
> >select statement and you are not
> >comfortable writing SQL, use the
> >view to create the SQL for you.
> >Then copy and paste it into the
> >stored proc.
> >
> >The ALTER statement is how the
> >code for the stored proc is saved
> >when you change it. What it is doing
> >is making a copy of your SP then
> >allowing you to change it. If you
> >goof up, you just close the window
> >and don't save or execute it. Then
> >open the SP again to get the original
> >ad start your editing again.
> >
> >Robert
> >
> >
> >At 11:26 AM 6/26/2007, you wrote:
> > >Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:16:55 -0700
> > >From: "Jennifer Gross" <jengross at gte.net>
> > >Subject: Re: [dba-SQLServer] Viewing and Modifying stored procedures
> > >To: "SQL Server List" <dba-sqlserver at databaseadvisors.com>
> > >Message-ID: <00d701c7b80d$6d78afe0$6501a8c0 at jefferson>
> > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> > >
> > >Hi Elizabeth,
> > >
> > >Yes, I have modify.  What it does is set up a template T-SQL script
> > >to modify the stored procedure.  If that is the only way to do it,
> > >then that is how I will have to work with it.  I was hoping for just
> > >an editing window.  Since I inherited this database what I really
> > >want to do is poke around and look at the code and I can't seem to
> > >find any way
> >
> > >to just look at the code without generating one of these T-SQL
> > >templates.
> > >
> > >I hope that makes sense.
> > >
> > >Jennifer
> >
> >
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