Browsing Database Structures

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Databases consist of tables, views and stored procedures, each of which represents a list of columns.

When a connection is live, you can expand the database connection node ( Database Connection node ) to see the subnodes representing tables, views, and procedures.

To browse a table:

  1. In the Services window, expand the node for a connected database.
  2. Right-click the Tables node to reveal the individual tables.
  3. Expand the Tables node to reveal the individual tables.
  4. Expand a table node ( table node ) to see the table's columns, an Indexes node and Foreign keys node.

Columns

The following table lists Services window icons and their descriptions.

Icon Description
Table
Column
Column (Primary key)
Column (Unique key)
Index
Foreign key
Column in foreign key
View

Indexes

Click on an index node to see the list of the columns contained by that index.

Foreign Keys

Click on a foreign key node to see the list of the columns contained by that foreign key. A foreign key contains columns that reference another table's columns (usually primary keys).

Views

Click the Views node to see the views on a given database.
View columns are dimmed to indicate that you cannot change the physical characteristics of the columns in a view. However, you can change a view by dropping the view and subsequently recreating it.

Procedures

Select a Procedures node to view stored procedure names and their in and out parameters.

See Also
Viewing Data in a Database Table

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