Microsoft Visual DataTools Beta Readme

Visual Studio '97 Beta
Microsoft Visual DataTools Beta Readme

This document provides late-breaking or other information that supplements the Microsoft® Visual DataTools™ Beta Release documentation.

Contents

Database Designer

Query Designer

Installation Issues

Expanding Stored Procedures Owned By Others Will Freeze the DataView tab

Database Designer

You cannot read database diagrams that you have saved from the Alpha release. The file format has changed.

Query Designer

You can update data in the Results Pane of the Query Designer if:

The primary key column(s) have been included in your query for output.
The ODBC driver for the data source you池e querying against supports SQLPrimaryKeys(). Such drivers include Microsoft SQL Server™, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Visual FoxPro™ v. 3.0 and later, and Oracle.

You cannot open query files saved from the Alpha release because of file format changes.

Installation Issues

The SQL Server 6.5 Service Pack 1 must be installed to run the Database Designer.

Expanding Stored Procedures Owned By Others Will Freeze the DataView tab

If you have a data connection in your project for which you are the DBO and you try to expand stored procedures owned by other users, the data view tab will freeze. The only way to fix the problem is to close the project and then reopen it, or to delete the connection and then reinsert it.