Question

If I have stored procedures open then in the tabs it says “SQLQuery10.sql” etc

But if I open up some saved files the tabs are the titles of the files:

Is there a setting in the IDE to let me have the stored procedure names dipsplayed in the query tabs?

Answer 1

This would be hard for any IDE to do. Consider these situations:

1. You are creating a new stored procedure, but you haven’t put any code in it or tried to run the script yet.
2. You are modifying a stored procedure, but you change the name of the procedure. Again, you haven’t run the script yet.
3. Your file contains multiple stored procedures. What should be in the table?
4. You are modifying a stored procedure, you change the name of the procedure, but there’s a syntax error: the code wouldn’t be able to run.
5. You scripted a stored procedure change, then commented out everything in the file, including “ALTER PROCEDURE”.

How should the IDE react to those situations?

The bottom line: you’re editing files, not stored procedure objects. In order to determine what stored procedure you’re attempting to modify with your script, the IDE would have to read and parse your script, and make a lot of decisions about partial cases and unusual situations like those above. It would be very difficult to please everybody, and inevitably someone would complain, “I’m saving it to a file! Why can’t it show me the file name in the tab!?”