Showing Friendly Names

Note:

This functionality is for Microsoft SQL Server data source connections only.

By default, when you connect to a Microsoft SQL Server data source, the database table names are displayed in the Data Sources tab of the Source Navigator in the following “friendly” format:

schema_name.database_name.table_name

You can disable the Show Friendly Names option and display full table names in the following format:

database_name.table_name

To show the full names of tables in a Microsoft SQL Server data source connection, from the Data Sources tab, right-click the data source connection name and select Show Friendly Names.

The check mark is cleared.

To show the friendly names of tables in a Microsoft SQL Server data source connection, from the Data Sources tab, right-click the data source connection name and select Show Friendly Names.

A check mark shows that Show Friendly Names is selected.