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baja_yu
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Posted - 2010-05-30 : 16:47:09
I'm not sure if I placed this in the right section, if not I ask the mods to move it where it should be.

Here's the question/problem. I'm using Management Studio (like stated thread title, express edition) among other things to manually edit contents of tables (in an online DB). My problem is, for example I have to paste a value in several (maybe even a dozen) records.

I click the first cell, it auto-selects the old data, Ctrl+V paste over it, click the next cell (#problem spot here#) and do the same thing again. Now, the problem there is that when I click on the next cell it commits the new data to the DB, status bar shows "Cell is Modified...", and for a moments (up to a couple of seconds) the GUI freezes. Click on the next cell is not processed completely (can't paste again) until the data in the previous is submitted.

My question is, is there a way around this? Why couldn't this operation run in a separate thread so as not to disturb the editing (this should probably be asked of the developers at MS). I used EMS SQL Manager earlier which seems to work this way, and it's very quick (but expensive, used 30 day trial). Or, is there a way to delay the commitment of new data, maybe have it done manually, after I'm done, click Update and it would update all changes at once.

tkizer
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Posted - 2010-05-30 : 17:35:22
You can write an UPDATE statement instead so that it behaves how you want.

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baja_yu
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Posted - 2010-05-30 : 18:03:08
That will take more time, as it is a fairly large table (several tens of thousands of records), I'm going through it manually examining the contents and based on it, for some, I have to copy data from field to another in one or several records.
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tkizer
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Posted - 2010-05-31 : 19:27:01
There isn't a way to fix SSMS then.

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baja_yu
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Posted - 2010-05-31 : 20:12:04
I suspected it might turn out that way. Still, I hoped there might be some hard to find option somewhere. In any case, thanks for taking the time to help. I guess I'll learn to live with it.
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