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Please, could you add some options for schema generation and schema updates?

Adding descriptions to the schema should be optional - I have very long descriptions on some of my columns/tables, and I do not want a schema-update every time a description changes. My descriptions are documentation for the code, not for the schema, so this feature doesn't make sense for me.

Generating constraints should be optional - I currently have to remove these by hand, because (1) the constraints aren't always valid or correct, and (2) some constraints prevent me from performing schema-migrations, because the migration itself violates the constraints. I prefer to maintain constraints by hand. Alternatively, this could be a column-setting that allows me to turn off constraints on a case-by-case basis.

mindplay wrote:Adding descriptions to the schema should be optional

mindplay wrote:Generating constraints should be optional

Thank you for your suggestions. We will investigate the possibility of their implementation and post here about the results.

Current workaround for using comments: if you move your comments from Summary to Long Description, they will not be considered as database schema comments.

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Modified reply in this post basing on the Entity Developer history:
4.2.120 27-Jan-12
The behaviour is changed: database column comments are transfered to the Summary attribute of the Documentation property now
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I use the summary for developer-information, because it displays in the IDE. I use the Long Description for detailed notes documenting how things work or how they're intended to be used.

I have thousands of documentation entries, so that's not an acceptable work-around.

The "Use Database Comments" option of Model Settings is implemented to determine whether comments for database objects, if supported by DBMS, will be used for model objects Documentation initialization and taken into account when executing model or database update operations.

We will post here when the corresponding build of Entity Developer is available for download.

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