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Q274167: FIX: Unable to Create or Modify Tables/Views on SQL Server 2000

Article: Q274167
Product(s): Microsoft Visual Basic for Windows
Version(s): 6.0
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbDatabase kbDataview kbDebug kbMDAC kbSQLServ kbStoredProc kbTSQL kbGrpDSVBDB kbGrpDSM
Last Modified: 23-AUG-2001

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Visual Basic Professional Edition for Windows, version 6.0 
- Microsoft Visual Basic Enterprise Edition for Windows, version 6.0 
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SYMPTOMS
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When you right-click on the Tables or Views folders (or items within those
folders) under a Data Link connected to a SQL 2000 Server, the New Table, New
View, Design Table, Design View, and Filter By Owner menu items do not appear.
These choices exist with SQL Server 7.0.

STATUS
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Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the
beginning of this article. This bug was corrected in the next service pack for
Visual Studio 6.0.

For additional information about Visual Studio service packs, click the article
numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  Q194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why

  Q194295 HOWTO: Tell That a Visual Studio Service Pack Is Installed

You can download the latest Visual Studio service pack from the following
Microsoft Web site:

  Visual Studio Product Updates
  (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/updates.asp)

MORE INFORMATION
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Steps to Reproduce Behavior
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1. Open a DataProject in Visual Basic 6.0.

2. Create a connection to SQL Server 2000 in the DataEnvironment.

3. Open the DataView window and expand the connection.

4. Right-click the Table folder.

NOTE: If Visual Studio 6.00 Service Pack 5 has been applied, you see New in the
context menu.

The New option displays the following error message:

  The Visual Database Tools within Visual Studio 6 and Access 2000 do not
  support some new features of SQL Server 2000. Because you are manipulating an
  object in a SQL Server 2000 database, some operations will be unavailable to
  you. In rare cases, you might not be able to save the database object you
  modified. In other cases, you will be able to save the object, but its
  previously existing settings for features new to SQL Server 2000 will be
  lost. In most of these cases, you will be warned if the Save operation will
  eliminate existing settings or property values.

  For a complete description of the interaction between SQL Server 2000 and
  Visual Database Tools within Visual Studio 6 or Access 2000, see Microsoft
  Knowledge Base article Q266277, "Using Visual Studio 6 and Access 2000 Visual
  Database Tools with SQL Server 2000." Knowledge Base articles are available
  in the MSDN Library Visual Studio documentation or at
  http://support.microsoft.com/support/.

  To suppress this message next time you design a SQL Server 2000 object from
  Visual Studio 6 or Access 2000, check the following box.

REFERENCES
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"Considerations for Other Microsoft Products" under "Installing SQL Server" in
SQL Server 2000 Books Online.

For additional information, click the article number below to view the article in
the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  Q266277 PRB: Using Visual Studio 6 and Access 2000 Visual Database Tools with
  SQL Server 2000

Additional query words:

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Keywords          : kbDatabase kbDataview kbDebug kbMDAC kbSQLServ kbStoredProc kbTSQL kbGrpDSVBDB kbGrpDSMDAC kbDSupport kbMDACNoSweep kbVS600sp5fix 
Technology        : kbVBSearch kbAudDeveloper kbZNotKeyword6 kbZNotKeyword2 kbVB600Search kbVB600
Version           : :6.0
Issue type        : kbbug
Solution Type     : kbfix

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