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Dealing with Scripted SQL

Jon Wagner edited this page Jun 6, 2012 · 1 revision

Dealing with Scripted SQL

Insight is designed to work best with people who write their own SQL, rather than using tools, but sometimes you just want to use a designer to build your database, then export the script. Insight supports most of these scenarios.

However, sometimes Insight doesn't like the SQL that SQL Management Studio generated. Here are a few rules to help you clean it up for Insight:

  • Each schema object (table, proc, index, type, etc.) should be separated by a GO keyword.
  • Delete all of the setup code that SQL Studio generates like ANSI_PADDING and all of that. Set up your database to have appropriate defaults if you really need that.

If you still have problems using a script with Insight, open an issue and we can try to see if we can get your script supported.

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