I’ve commented in the past on some of my frustrations with SQL Server 2005’s “Management Studio” and here’s another one I found.
You see, they’ve had some good ideas in terms of the UI with the management studio, but like I said in that previous post, it just seems like they never bothered to finish anything (or, they never had time to finish everything, which really amounts to the same thing – after all, there’s already been a service pack, so why were all these things fixed in that?)
For example, sometimes when you do something involving a database operation, it pops up this dialog showing the progress and the steps it’s taking (other times, like I said before, it just does it in the UI thread and you just get a big long pause). This is great, until you get something like this:
Now, it was hard for me to tell what it was actually doing, and that dialog sat there for about 5 minutes with all it’s buttons disabled and no actual progress before I got bored and killed the whole SqlWb.exe process (I couldn’t even figure out which “process” in SQL Server it corresponded to, because none of them seemed to be doing anything).
Some of my co-workers have even gone so far as to forego the IDE and just use Query Analyser from SQL Server 2000. I must say, it’s starting to seem more and more tempting...