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 5/16/2008 10:33:25 AM
kevriley
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Intellisense

One of the features I was looking forward to was Intellisense, but it hasn't matched my expectations.

It wasn't so much the list of objects, or functions that I wanted to use Intellisense for, but more for things like the list of parameters for a function. For example, I can never remember the correct order of the parameters for SUBSTRING, or for REPLACE, and I was hoping that intellisense would at least give me a helpful hint, but it just lists, for example, "Param1 varchar, Param3 varchar, Param5 varchar" for REPLACE.

I *know* there are 3 parameters needed, one for the string to search in, one for the string to find, and one for the string to replace with BUT it's the order I forget!!!

 

 

 5/19/2008 5:29:48 PM
rjones
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Re: Intellisense
Touche!

I have always thought that the T-SQL Intellisense engine is a bit quirky because many T-SQL queries are written in reverse, when compared to the way they are evaluated. Of course, this doesn't explain why the simpler issues, like parameters for functions, haven't been addressed. This may be upcoming in the next CTPs, but I don't know for sure.

As we have weekly calls with Microsoft, I'll make sure to mention this at the next opportunity. In addition, you may want to give feedback through the connect site - it is available at connect.microsoft.com

Thanks!
Ryan
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