>>>>Hi,
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>>>>In VFP, using the DB container, you can specify field captions. For example, field last_name could have a caption "Customer Last Name." So when you browse the table in VFP IDE, the heading of the column says "Customer Last Name"
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>>>>Is there a way to have the same in SQL Server? So that when you Browse/Select from the table in SSMS the column names are the captions?
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>>>You can use extended properties, but they will not be shown in the SSMS when you select rows from the table.
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>>Thank you.
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>Take a look
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http://blogs.lessthandot.com/index.php/datamgmt/datadesign/document-your-sql-server-databases/Thank you
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